The NP is imploding. The UNA is poaching. The LP is plotting

Our kind of politics is more about personal ambition than serving the broader society--and never about the pursuit of lofty ideals. The institutions of politics such as political parties, therefore, serve raw and naked personal ambition not institution-building or nation-building for that matter. The political parties have been sadly reduced to platforms that serve – literally – the ego and power trips of our leading politicians.

With the presidential election just two years away, the full intensity (some use the word venality) and scale of ambition is in full display. And the political parties, or what is happening to them, aptly mirror the chaos and the turmoil that are the brutal wages of these overarching ambitions.