Hi DK,
Thanks for your question. Elections are suppose to be about our principles. There are a set of principles that the National Democratic Movement, NDM, stand for that cannot be found in the two major parties.
- Separation of Powers (Three equally powerful arms of government)
- Nominations, hearings and then appointment to the major positions
- Systemic changes to the way the country and its business is done
- Participatory Practices for the highest to the lowest levels
- Removal of Income Taxes over 5 year period
- Decentralization of Government Functions
- Dismantling of “Garrison Politics”
- Value for money to citizens
- Apprenticeship Programs
The JLP has not accepted the ideas of the NDM but for a few. The PNP seems to pick, choose and refuse most of the tenets of our policies else they would have implemented them by now. Using it for playing politics to carrot the citizens then whip them based on their agenda at the time.
Our founding President and other officers and candidates may now be there but the ideas have not gone there with them. Other NDM officers and candidates also are now with the PNP and they have nothing to say on the NDM policies either. It seems their move was motivated by expedience instead of on principle.
Many of the most important things that the NDM stand for do not yet to be discussed let alone accepted by the ranks of the JLP or PNP. Because it does not really serve them to have these people policies in place. It is one thing to have returned but quite another to return with conditions (to pretend that you do not believe in the NDM values or that the NDM does not exist. I do not know what causes JLP/PNP to hold so firmly against the many other good thing the NDM has in mind but that is for them to work out.
All the NDM members and supporters can do is keep on saying and singing the same songs that we believe in. The NDM platform represents us! There is Another Way, JAMAICA! to undo the problems of the past and set a great course for the future. If only our citizens will come to realize that together we can change the system.
C.C.CAMPBELL for MP
dk wrote:
why not support the j l p since the founder 4 the n. d. m. is now back in the j l p and using it as a vehicle 4 n. d. m philosophy
