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JLP Blasts PNP Too … Says Comrades Took Prosperity Tagline Domain

Massive crowd of Jamaica Labor Party supporters at the National Arena...
Massive crowd of Jamaica Labor Party sup­port­ers at the National Arena…

It appears that the deci­sion by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to buy an Internet domain name with the words ‘Portia Simpson Miller’ is part is a polit­i­cal tit-for-tat.

According to the JLP, the People’s National Party had first pur­chased a domain with the Labourites’ cam­paign slo­gan ‘from pover­ty to prosperity’.

The JLP says the PNP bought the Internet domain namewww​.FromPovertytoProsperity​.com on August 24.

The JLP has released a state­ment con­demn­ing the actions of the PNP.

The JLP state­ment uses many of the very same words and phras­es cit­ed in an ear­li­er release from the PNP bash­ing the Labourites for buy­ing the domain namewww​.por​ti​asimp​son​miller​.com.

According to the JLP, it is a cow­ard­ly act of des­per­a­tion to gain trac­tion and rel­e­vance to dri­ve traf­fic to the PNP’s failed policies.

A JLP supporter blows a vuvuzela. - photos by Ian Allen/Photographer
A JLP sup­port­er blows a vuvuzela. — pho­tos by Ian Allen/​Photographer

READ: PNP upset as JLP buys Portia Simpson Miller Internet domain

“The par­ty views the PNP’s actions as immoral and uneth­i­cal and reflec­tive of a par­ty that is bank­rupt of ideas that will use the immense pop­u­lar­i­ty of the Poverty to Prosperity tag to seek to shore up its flag­ging brand”, said a JLP spokesper­son in a statement.

The JLP release con­tin­ued: “Fresh on the heels of a dis­mal con­fer­ence on the week­end, the Prime Minister has now clear­ly resort­ed to “pig­gy­back­ing” on the inter­na­tion­al­ly and local­ly rep­utable tagline in order to get an audience.”

The JLP said the tagline ‘From Poverty to Prosperity’ was first used by Prime Minister Bruce Golding in 2011 and then by Opposition Andrew Holness in his Budget pre­sen­ta­tion and oth­er con­tri­bu­tions by mem­bers in 2014 and 2015.

Government MP Dayton Campbell recent­ly used the slo­gan in Parliament and has claimed pub­licly that the JLP was seek­ing to cap­i­talise on it. Story orig­i­nat­ed here:JLP Blasts PNP Too … Says Comrades Took Prosperity Tagline Domain

One thought on “JLP Blasts PNP Too … Says Comrades Took Prosperity Tagline Domain”

  1. It’s always a PNP island; Jamaicans love the PNP irre­spec­tive of the social issues fac­ing them as a peo­ple. Even if they are dying for hunger, it’s PNP for life. The cur­rent state of the JLP par­ty’s lead­er­ship is in a dis­ar­ray. You can’t lead if you can’t get the peo­ple with­in the par­ty to unite. 

    At present the JLP is viewed by most Jamaicans as the rich man’s par­ty and the PNP par­ty is for the poor. Yet, it is the PNP par­ty with the dra­con­ian poli­cies that makes the lives of the poor painful in every way pos­si­ble. Keep them illit­er­ate and you’ll stay in power!

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