The Secret Blog of Patrick “Patos” Manning

Except for the fact that they served pone again for tea, this afternoon’s session of parliament was mostly unbearable, thanks mainly to Imbert, who approached me during one of the breaks to inform me that people have started calling me “Joe Petit Quart” (the Trinidadian equivalent of Joe Six-pack) behind my back. This due to my insistence that I am just a regular fella with the same right to visit radio stations as any citizen. I fail to understand why people are finding this idea so hard to grasp.

And I don’t think I was imagining that practically everybody I spoke to today, PNM and Opposition alike, managed to work the word “sue” into the conversation. I realised what was going on when Public Utilities minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, whom I believe is Muslim, said he’d had Char Sue pork for lunch. And I know Mariano Brown’s wife isn’t named Sue.