I am confused now.. what Dawn saying

[Muadib]

mi tink Labourite was for the Elite ?

"Everybody knows that the JLP is a black man and 'dutty Labourite' party. We also know that the PNP is the comrade and 'browning' party, the heart of the intelligentsia.

Bruce Golding would have made a far more believable president of the PNP. Mrs. Simpson Miller should have come from the JLP. Had she arisen in that party, not a soul would have questioned her accession to high office. But that comfort zone does not exist"

Can an expert in Jamaican politics please settle this once and for all ?

(I am a Growth Party supporter so have not really explored these esoterics)

[Muadib]

Getting more confused now...

"Despite her pandering to the poor, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's People's National Party (PNP) has its strongest electoral support among the middle class, according to a recent Gleaner-commissioned poll.

The survey, conducted by pollster Bill Johnson among 1,008 residents of Jamaica in early May, found that of the 34 per cent of persons who said they would vote for the PNP, 41 per cent were grouped in the lower middle class.

A further 30 per cent of persons in the upper middle class said they would vote for the PNP. The ruling party doubles the size of electoral support that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has among the lower middle class, while leading the Opposition party by two points in electoral support among the upper class. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus three per cent.

The coalescing of the middle class around the PNP is not surprising, based on the fact that the party was founded by intellectuals, with its founding president, Norman Manley, being a lawyer.

However, the PNP's current standing among the middle class represents a decrease compared to earlier times, according to former JLP Leader and Prime Minister, Edward Seaga.

Now a distinguished fellow at the University of the West Indies, Seaga said during the ideological turmoil of the 1970s, under the Michael Manley administration, significant sections of the middle class deserted the democratic socialist inclination of the PNP for the pro-free-market JLP.

"In the beginning, the JLP had no middle-class support. The party used to lose the northern St. Andrew seats," Seaga told The Sunday Gleaner. "The big shift occurred since the 1970s, when the JLP took away the (dominant) upper middle class support from the PNP."

Actually it is all making sense now... so the Revolution in 1972 was actually a 'intellectual brown man revolution'.. the black man was simply used to give certian brown man power..

Given the state of the masses today.. this makes PERFECT SENSE.

Hoodwinked, Bamboozled...