Here is Paul Burke
“We have always had these problems; they just haven’t [previously] made it out to the media” – PNP Gen Sec, Paul Burke on current candidate selection process.
The PNP was portrayed by the media as a cohesive until that did not have the internal issues that were always besetting the JLP. The party however, is now confirming what I have been saying for sometime now, its is good at cover up, which I can only assume have been facilitated by the media.
The advent of smartphones and social medial platform has however exposed the emperor nakedness , the PNP has always had problems, they however have done a super duppa job at cover up, than the JLP was ever able to.
Social media and smartphones, however have no friends, no alliances, no borders and cannot be control by the broadcasting commission.
A quick snapshot of a document, instantly emailed and you are exposed. No one has to wait for media release, that information is on twitter long before the media is able to put together a story, edited by the editor for the public.
Their are no editors on twitter,facebook or whatsapp and so all lies, are now being exposed. The spinners are having a hard time keeping up and unless they now appear on twitter, whatsapp or facebook, their voices are drowned in the deluge of information now present electronically.
Social media has exposed the PNP as the main stream media has done to the JLP over the years.
The myth of PNP unity has been shattered, their constant cover up exposed and public spinners are unable to help the party.
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The PNP squabble is at the lower level. The JLP is at the leadership level.
Cullcull don’t be fooled.
To be honest the squabbles in both parties have the potential of something good…assuming it develops along certain lines. The current squabbles remind me more of the primary selection contests seen in the United States among Democrat and Republican contenders for the right to be their party’s representative in Congressional districts.
That’s actually NOT a bad thing for the PNP, JLP or Jamaica. cullCull is only half right – (most of the) the current squabbles are about seats, not positions within the party. But this also applies to a lesser extent to the most recent squabbles in the JLP (Mair and Hay-Webster).
The bigger squabbles in the JLP over the past few years however HAVE been over leadership positions within the party (Shaw challenging Holness for leadership of the party for example as opposed to challenging him for the right to represent his current seat in Parliament) which has been problematic for the JLP because whereas squabbles over seats leaves the essential power structure unchanged within both the PNP and JLP (and thereby allows both parties in theory to continue with policy as outlined by the current leadership (or lack thereof in both cases)), squabbles over leadership positions within the party indicate that there isn’t agreement on the direction the party is taking overall – hence why the JLP is still seen as being weak despite the squabbles in the PNP —–> since it is widely suspected that a good portion of the party still does not accept Holness as leader and the direction he wants to take the party in.
Having something like the American primary selection/election framework could be a good thing in that it MAY make representatives more responsive to the constituents in the future as they would fear being booted during this phase ahead of any general elections.
It could be a bad thing though if it allows fringe elements within the parties to determine the candidates for election much as how the Tea Party has forced Republican candidates to become more extreme in order to fend off the advances of the most extremist Tea Partiers and with Tea Partiers themselves sometimes winning selection. If that happens here then it will only turn off more uncommitted and middle of the road voters, leaving both the candidate selection process and the general elections more and more as the province of the hard-core committed voters for either party (which really isn’t good for the JLP and is not good for Jamaica overall).