Guvament?…What Guvament?

Last week’s newspapers did something they haven’t done in a very long time, they showed some objectivity.

Leading up to the election and up to recently, they have been pretty much guvament mouthpieces, of course with one or two objectors thrown in, but pretty much pro JLP most of the time. Now, I see where Mark Wignall is having “buyer’s remorse”, as evidenced by his two latest columns, (2008-11-20 & 2008-11-23), where he wonders if the electorate made a mistake and laments not having any real choice in considering the replacement of the guvament.

Sad.

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Months before the election, many friends and colleagues got into heated arguments with me, upset that I would dare say that their was no difference between the parties, and worse when I made the observation that:
1. There is more PNP in this country than JLP &
2. That the JLP administration of the 1980’s was also corrupt with it’s many shady deals, ala spring plains, and even with how they won the 1980 election.

Many these days are too young, or their memories too limited, to remember these things, and that out of desperation for better living conditions they voted to “change” the guvament.

But what change has there been, really?

The global economic fall out, the price of oil on the international market all served to make a bad situation worse, and to expect miracles from any guvament would be idiotic.

However, if your only response to the problems the country faces, and the questions about your suitability to lead, is to blame the previous guvament and to promise the revelation of more scandals, then you are not ready for this job.

Man ah yaad indeed!

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Why is the guvament still in campaign mode?

Don’t they realize they won?
Albeit by a very slim margin.

I see it all as smoke, mirrors, fog horns blaring, cymbals clashing, music being turned up, to drown out the ever growing cacophony  of the people questioning their suitability.

I suppose they will point to the ever increasing number of public boards that are being fired as them being so in control of things that the slightest slip and they are gone.

My guess as to the sacking of boards, is that these people dared question some guvament policy, and we know how Bruce just loves to be questioned, so he got rid of them.

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Sigh

Sigh…

I Guess the Bitch will always side with the guvament.

Did they really ask the public if this is how they feel about the matter?

I’m sure the public is concerned about people losing their work.

Or is it that all who challenge the guvament will be painted in such an unfair manner.

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When they were campaigning, the chant was “JOBS JOBS AND MORE JOBS!”, who knew it meant that people would be losing theirs.

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Like Ol’ Gyal!

So the opposition gives you a failing grade in your stewardship of the country.

Fine that is what oppositions do.

It’s what you were doing for 18 years.

And though there may be some disagreement with what the opposition says about the guvament, it has always perplexed me that the guvament’s reply is delivered like two market woman a cuss over dem spot inna de market.

Why must the people elected to lead this country be going on like ol’ gyal?

Dem nuh have more sense than that?

I expect better.

If you have to reply don’t go on about how new scandal soon come.

Don’t say a thing about it, wait till it is properly investigated, then present it to the relevant authorities and the people of the country in a more mature manner, and not in a way that is clearly indicative of attempting to score cheap political points.

After all the light bulb thing seems to be going nowhere, Paulwell got off the hook and the smaller fish Kern seems comfortable on the tip of it. I haven’t heard any grand announcements about the case in a while, is that because it heading nowhere too or is it the calm before the storm?

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Parties in opposition need to put up or shut the hell up!

For the 18 years that the JLP were in opposition they made claims as to how they had better ideas to push this country forward, that they had great plans to bring prosperity to the land, that they could make this country what the well meaning among us want it to be, what we dream of it being.

The PNP is no different.

In this current time of sever economic hardship, they claim that the guvament don’t know what they doing and that they, the PNP, have the right ideas to help the poorer of us and to make things easier on the people of this country.

Fine.

But let me ask a simple question, If unnoo really care about Jamaica, if unnoo really had a plan to help this country to be better off, why not share that plan with the guvament?

If the country truly matters to you then publish those plans, discuss it with the guvament, with the various sectors with an interest in whatever it is your plan entails, to see it implemented, to see it done.

For your country.

But like all parties in opposition unnoo a go keep it to unnoo self.

If that is what you going to do, then shut unnoo RASS mouth and stop talk to the media!

Such selfish shit is why we can never be better in this country!

Keeping your ideas guarded lest the other party take it and use it and take all the credit for it, If it works then SO WHAT!?

The country would be better off, right?

Isn’t that the point of it all?