The party which won the last elections by a landslide and which and promised to ” tun up d ting” appears to have ” tun down d ting” so much, that you cannot even seem to hear what they are working on for the people of Jamaica.
One persons to whom I spoke reminded me of the dog chasing the car and barking, but once it catches up to the car, it appears not to have a clue as to why it was chasing the car in the first place. He likened that metaphorical dog to the PNP, who was so hungry for power and now having been handed it, appears completely lost at sea.
Content extracted from today’s gleaner , see below:
Many party faithful are in agreement with political analyst Richard ‘Dickie’ Crawford that the PNP seems to be going through the motions of much of the old politics and not seeming to be grappling with the governance problems and issues in the society.
“The PNP seems to have lost its soul over the last eight months,” said one clearly dispirited Comrade. “I am planning to ask the leadership of my party what they plan to do about it. Have we ceased to care?”
Another well-known delegate told The Gleaner that this is the first in many years that she would not be attending the conference. “There is just no vibes,” the PNP loyalist said.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120915/lead/lead2.html
Now many persons to whom I have spoken have expressed surprise in how fast things have gone from bad to worse under the leaderless PNP. How could they have “let down” the Jamaican people so quickly after being handed such a huge mandate in 2011.
I am not surprised one bit and the reason is, I have carefully analysed the performance of the party from 1989 to 2007 and while most countries in the world were recording astonishing growth, Jamaica was never able to register any significant growth during what I term the boom years.
In fact in the 1990’s the so called ” meltdown” of the financial markets here in Jamaica, highlighted the very poor leadership the PNP was offering the public, but continued to win elections by ensuring people ” eat a food”. If these guys could not grow the economy in the boom years, how on earth where they going to do it, when much of the world was in a recession, it was just not going to happen.
Comrades today are very unhappy, because the “food” they thought ( more like fooled into believing) they were going to get is simply not present and the party leader is NOT speaking to them, about the many challenges facing the country.
It is very clear that apart from a few Minister like Phillip Paulwell , Ronnie Thwaites and to a lesser extend Dr Peter Phillips, the other minister as well as the party leader are found lacking and without a sense of purpose and or direction.
I expect NOTHING from the party leader this weekend expect rhetoric and noise, but no substance as she obviously is out of her depths in this role. She may be a good opposition leader, but so far appears to be the worst Prime Minister that Jamaica has ever had.
I do hope she surprises me by saying something meaningful, when she speaks at the public session come Sunday.
PS. Peter Phillips had said ” Should the PNP win( under the leadership of PSM), Jamaica would become the next Haiti of the Caribbean”.
So was Peter Phillip being very prophetic back then and why did we not listen ?
Oh, a little birde told me why ” JLP cut off all d food and diss up nuff people, so we did haffi get rid a dem, but r##s man we never expect d pnp would a treat we so bad too“.
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nice analogy with the dog chasing the car and i agree.If the pnp thought that they could fool the people and vacillate for the next 5 years they have another guess coming
In my opinion this current government faces more challenges than any other administration in our history. More than JLP 1962-1972 even leading us into independence, more the PNP 1972-1980 even with massive global food and oil crises, more than JLP 1980-1989 coming off of 8 years of negative economic growth and Hurricane Gilbert, certainly more than PNP 1989-2007 and, even with the global recession, more than JLP 2007-2011. I believe that PSM COULD be a good Prime Minister, but she’s not quite cut out to be Prime Minister at a time like this. Unlike what most people think, PSM is smart. She is tested and proven. But her responsibilities were tested and proven when she had responsibilities a fraction of the size of her current responsibilities. Now she is being tested at the highest office, and is leaving a lot of the desired.
I don’t think the PNP is doing a bad job, given the circumstances. I think they’ve made the hard decisions, the decisions which will hurt them politically but are necessary for the growth of the country. They’re embrasing a new type of Jamaican politics in some fields. But as evidenced by the current situation in East Rural St. Andrew, the PNP leadership is obviously still hanging on to old politics.
PSM under pressure and rightly so.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Portia-under-pressure_12514365
The political landscape is changing thanks to social media, facebook, twitter and bloggers. No longer can our none performing leaders waste time while in office and not expect to be severely criticized.
The social network have been abuzz with calls for the embattled PM to speak and the cries are getting louder, the more she hides. Finally Jamaicans appear ready to hold our leaders accountable and ensure they respond to the needs of the people.
One politician is trying to make a shift and Portia and the PNP have once again failed , by allowing the grand opportunity to tell Jamaicans that the PNP is no longer a welfare party , to slip by.
I am not expecting much from today’s address except the usually “noise”‘ and how bad the economy was when they took it over.
The political platform is Portia’s stage , because she knows, she will NEVER be asked any tough questions, by the “eat a food” comrades as long as she promises to feed them.
“FISCAL TARGETS cannot eat and people cannot sleep on balance sheet. ( ( Now they are living on the streets)
That was the bold declaration from People’s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller at a campaign meeting in Mandeville, Manchester, on the eve of last December’s general election.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120916/lead/lead4.html