There can be no doubt that public confidence in the opposition in general has plummeted since the 2011 national elections. Although some of the decline was inevitable, in the case of APNU, I believe that much of it has also resulted from its penchant for fictitious political posturing and a refusal to take concrete measures to attempt to win tangible benefits for – at the very least – its own supporters.
Post-election constituency blues are not unusual because of the gulf between pre-elections demagoguery and political reality that soon becomes evident. Although this difficulty is usually reserved for governments that are in the position and expected to fulfill promises made, the outcome of the 2011 elections, by providing the opposition with a majority, has placed it in the unenviable position of having raised some perhaps unrealistic expectations that it now appears unable to fulfill.
Indeed, pressed to indicate what it has achieved over the last two years, the opposition’s only real claim is that it has