PNP WIN!!!!

Portia fly di gate!!! Fifth term inevitable???? You bet it is!!!


Last night, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced the election date as August 27. During the mass rally in Half-Way Tree, she trotted out her candidates - a less than impressive list of 60, including herself, which she boasted contained some 40% new candidates.

Now after watching the stage show, cum dance, cum political rally, cum state of the nation address that Portia and her merry band of miscreants called the PNP put on - is it any wonder that Jamaica is in the state it is?

I watched in dismay as some tens of thousands of Jamaicans - men, women and children - turned the normally bustling Half- Way Tree square into a sea of human flesh, all ready and willing to put on a show unlike anything Jamaica has ever seen before. And to quote Christopher Castriota of the PNP's communication arm, "it is the largest mass rally ever held in J.A.'s history." Wow!!!

And I thought what somebody not used to J.A. politics witnessing this event would have thought about the governing PNP. To the un-initiated and unschooled in the political mire of Jamaica, the PNP would certainly appear to be the best thing to have ever happened to Jamaica!

But how wrong they would be!

You see, the PNP, after 18 years of leadership has been embroiled in scandal, after scandal, after scandal. In the almost two decades that they have been in power, the country has had to suffer through, Netserv, Fat Cats salaries (millions of dollars going to Consultants), NSWMA, and most recently Trafigura. Together all these have equaled to billions of dollars in tax payers money down the drain. And all the while, crime has gone so far out of control that murder now seems a way of life on the rock. Jamaica's schools seem to be turning out less and less educated people and the economy, well, not even the economists can agree on the state of the economy. And all of this means that the average Jamaican should not be happy with the land of their birth.

Hence a PNP defeat is inevitable, right? Wrong! And this is why - too many dunce voters.

And to show you how far gone we are - Anansi predicts the PNP will win 40 seats to the JLP's 20. God Bless us all!