It seems PNP “leaders” have decided to be sheep instead of shepherds and thus likely to plunge Jamaica into the abyss of a de facto One-Party State.

The once proud PNP whose ideas inspired a generation in the 1950s and again in the 1970s and whose political acumen kept it at governance forefront in the 1990s/20-noughties has devolved into a disorganized, disorderly cacophony of noise and fury signifying the square root of flip all.

PNP’s decline becomes obvious after focus on electoral data. In 2016, PNP earned 433,735 votes (49.7 per cent); 31 seats; to JLP’s 436,972 (50.1 per cent); 32 seats. After nine years in Opposition and against a Government reeling from second term fatigue, PNP polled 401,398 votes (48.34 per cent); won 28 seats; JLP 412,705 votes (50.54 per cent); 35 seats.