"ED is Mugabe mark 2!" - skunk is out, UK want it doused with GNU, Chanel 5 perfume

There are certain events which, on their own would not even be noticed, assume ginormous significance because of the circumstance under which they take place. The last straw that broke the camel’s back!

In Hans Christian Andresen’s fable The Emperor’s New Clothes it was the little child that cried out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" who forced everyone to admit what everyone knew was true but too foolish to admit. After nearly a month of avoiding to give their finally verdict on Zimbabwe’s recent elections, it took the British MP, Kate Hoey, to spell out what everyone else had witnessed but did not want to be the first to say it. She did not mince her words, the elections were NOT free, fair and credible.  

“Without doubt the election has been cleverly rigged but even worse is the fact that it is the military that is behind the regime and they are now unleashing a similar fear and terror campaign on leading opposition activists and curbing all protests by killing and arresting innocent Zimbabweans,” she wrote in her article in Zimeye.

“The courage and self-sacrifice of the Zimbabwean people is humbling to behold. We, in the international community cannot accept the result of the election and the UK government must take a lead to ensure that the Zimbabwean government is seen for what it is a mark 2 Mugabe regime and one that deserves no support whatsoever.”

The elections were rigged, Mnangagwa is Mugabe mark 2 and the international community must not support his regime. The genie is out of the bottle and there is no putting it back.

“Despite the denials in the officialdom, the European Union (EU) and the British government seem to be succeeding in mellowing protagonists in the Zimbabwe crisis and nudging them towards some form of a unity government,” reported Bulawayo 24.

“The international media first leaked reports of the talks mid this month, which were later corroborated by the Daily News.

“The EU and the UK, it would appear, want President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to officially recognise the MDC Alliance - Zimbabwe's main opposition party - in exchange for international recognition, which is critical in unlocking economic aid and access to financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

“As part of the arrangement, this could see Zimbabwe adopting the British parliamentary system, where the leader of the opposition and his chief whip are paid by the State.”

If this is indeed true then this is nothing more than EU and UK conspiring to administer sugar coating pill to the long suffering people of Zimbabwe.

If these western nations accept that the elections were rigged then they must accept that this Mnangagwa regime, “Mugabe mark 2”, as MP Hoey rightly called it, is corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical and all it cares about is retaining absolute power at all cost, as it has just proven by rigging the elections. The addition of the equally corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders to the regime will change nothing.

Zanu PF and MDC leaders worked together before in the 2008 to 2013 GNU. They tasked to implement a raft of democratic reforms designed to stop the blatant vote rigging and wanton violence the nation was subjected to in 2008. After five years they failed to get even one reform implemented. It is naïve to believe the same protagonist will do any better.

If there is no guarantee that the 2023 will not be blatantly rigged as happened this year; then, what is the purpose of this GNU other than securing ministerial limos and fancy job titles for MDC leaders.

President Mnangagwa promised to hold free, fair and credible elections this year. He was told that he needed to implement the democratic reforms agreed at the onset of the last GNU, but he refused to do so. He failed to deliver free and fair elections.

After 38 years of rigged elections and the nation is serious economic and political trouble, Zimbabwe must face up to this problem of rigged elections and act decisively. Mugabe mark 2 must be told in no uncertain terms that he must step aside and allow the nation to appoint others who can be trusted to implement the democratic reforms and finally get the nation out of this hell hole.

A Zanu PF and MDC GNU is NOT a sugar coated placebo! We already know the politicians from both sides of the political divide are not interested in implementing any democratic reforms. They failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the 2008 GNU.

A Zanu PF and MDC GNU is NOT a sugar coated painkiller! The international investor know that Zanu PF rigged these elections and will remain the dominant partner in this fudged political marriage of convenience. They know Zanu PF will rig the next elections just as readily as they rigged this year’s elections. Zimbabwe is a pariah state and no investors want to do business with thugs.

A Zanu PF and MDC GNU is certain NOT a sugar coated cure! The presence of Chamisa and a few MDC leaders not transform the Zanu PF dictatorship into a competent and democratic anything!

So the Zanu PF and MDC GNU the EU and UK are proposing is nothing more than a sugar coated sedative! The West would want the ordinary Zimbabweans to believe the GNU will solve the nation’s problems of bad governance and make them suffer in silence. The GNU will serve the West the blushes of  having to deal with the vote rigging Zanu PF without being seen as done something to tame the thugs; the GNU will be dousing the Zanu PF skunk with Chanel 5 perfume – it kill the stench, at least for a short while!