'We are past masters at misleading,' confesses MP Cross - MDC Alliance to prove it

"We are past masters at misleading everyone – including ourselves, as to what exactly is happening at any juncture," wrote MDC-T MP, Eddie Cross in a recent article.

Well that is probably the most truthful thing MP Cross has ever said in his whole life! The tragedy with truism from such as he is that he said it but it did not register in his own mind. He is like a fool who stumbles on some wisdom, he does not appreciate the true value of what he has stumbled on and thus never profit from it.

"The next elections are certainly going to be the most contested since we became a sort of a democracy in 1980. MDC has tried to put an alliance for reform of the electoral playing field and has had some success. Now it is trying to stitch together a credible coalition to fight the election and this is going to be launched on Saturday (tomorrow). I think the grouping that will emerge is quite useful and could be very powerful in the coming battles, because if we have an election it is going to be more of a democratic war than an election," continued MP Cross, just to prove his mastery at misleading himself, MDC party members and uninitiated public!

1)    MDC has failed to get even one democratic reform implemented during the GNU when it had the golden opportunity to do so. After the rigged July 2013 elections, the party vowed not to contest any future elections until reforms are implemented. "No reform, no elections!" read the party congress resolution. The party teamed up with other 17 opposition parties to form NERA to push for reforms.

There have been no reforms implemented and MDC-T has foolishly decided to contest next year's elections regardless and in violation of its own party resolution.

There has been no "success" in getting a level playing field; you are just misleading yourself.

2)    The coalition that Tsvangirai is trying to "stitch together" is dead in the water already before it is even launched because MDC-T members will never agree to giving up their right to contest the elections to coalition partners. It is no secret that Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube and all the other opposition parties are keen to join the coalition so they can have a shot at winning a gravy train seat on the back of MDC-T and other opposition party supporters.

Biti and Ncube know them have no chance of winning the presidential race and so, for them, stepping aside to allow Tsvangirai to run is no sacrifice. They do not have the no numbers to give them the dominance and confidence of winning but asking MDC-T candidate to step aside will improve their electoral chances considerably.

Tsvangirai has just imposed his will on the rest of his MDC-T colleagues and thus fudging the coalition. The fight to get MDC-T candidates to step aside will be so intense that nothing of substance will ever come out of this to call it "useful and powerful". MP Cross is only deluding himself.

3)    MP Cross is making a mountain out of a mole-hill of the coalition, even if the opposition could iron out all their coalition problems; the outcome of the elections was always going to depend on the elections being free, fair and credible.

The opposition should NOT be contesting these elections with no reforms in place, period! To say otherwise is just nonsense.