UK Ambassador says Chamisa 'represents the future' - this is an insult, he is a GNU sell - out!

"Britain's Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mrs Catrion Laing is reportedly backing former MDC-T national organising secretary and Kuwadzana East legislator Mr Nelson Chamisa to take over the party's leadership from Mr Morgan Tsvangirai," reported Bulawayo24.

"The Sunday Mail understands that the British envoy recently divulged this to World Bank staff at a function to officially open the Breton-Woods institution offices in Mount Pleasant, Harare.



"A reliable source who attended the event said Mrs Laing said Mr Chamisa "represents the future" of opposition politics in Zimbabwe."

There is nothing wrong with the British Ambassador or anyone else for that matter expressing their political opinion on Zimbabwe's leaders provided the said opinion is honest and expressed in good faith. When someone who should know better  calls a political sell-out like Nelson Chamisa the future of our country it is impossible to view this as anything other than what it is – an insult!

Nelson Chamisa was a senior member of the MDC leadership together with Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti , Welshman Ncube, David Coltart and Eddie Cross, to name but a few,  who failed to implement even one of the raft of democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA during the GNU.  The reforms were necessary for free, fair and credible elections. They had five years to implement the reforms but failed to get even one reform implemented. Not one!

The MDC leaders knew about the reforms because they were involved in drafting the GPA and, throughout the GNU, they were reminded again and again to implement the reforms. They paid no heed to the reminders and ignored the warning not to take part in the July 2013 elections without the reforms implemented. A few MDC leaders like Samuel Sipepa Nkomo have since admitted that they were warned and that they ignored the warning.

Mugabe went on to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections landing the nation back in the mess of having a corrupt and tyrannical regime back in office. The GNU offered us the best opportunity since independence to end the Mugabe dictatorship peacefully and that chance was wasted. God only knows how the nation is going to end the dictatorship and at what price!

Of course MDC leaders did not implement even one reform because they sold-out. As SADC Heads rightly pointed out at the time, they "were busy enjoying themselves and forgot why they were in the GNU."  

Ambassador Laing knows that many British politicians have been forced to resign from public office for such acts of indiscretion as spending the night with a prostitute. We are talking here of politicians conspiring to betray the whole nation for selfish material gain and the consequences of the sell-out in untold human misery and death for many years to come. How someone who is guilty of such treasonous betrayal can still be considered the future of the nation beggars belief.

There are a few Zimbabweans who are doing their best to build a healthy and functioning democracy in Zimbabwe and lowering the democratic standard so that a sell-out is considering a democrat is makes a mockery of democracy.  It is tough enough trying to build a democracy with countries like China and Israel helping Mugabe to rig the elections without having to fight well established democratic nations like the British selling someone we all know is corrupt, incompetent and have sold-out big time only as a democrat!