JLP's Defeat: An Insider's Perspective

[Skeng DX]

One colleague of mine is insistent that the JLP lost this general election when we won the September 3, 2007 general election. Despite over a year of campaigning then, including a huge advertising and media programme, an incumbent PNP administration that went over 18 consecutive years in office with pressure from highly publicised scandals and internal division, albeit under a still popular leader in the form of Portia Simpson Miller, the JLP managed to win only 32 seats to the PNP's 28. Then, the party should have carried out a most comprehensive assessment into the marginal win and, thereafter, set a clear programme of work that would seek to mend gaps in the JLP's machinery.

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[TDowl]

Ben said it was a mandate ehhh eeeehhh, Chess master plan in effect, guh deh Driva.