Jamaica general election, 3 September 2020

[warandwar]

The major issue raised by the PNP was Holness calling for an election under COVID, which shows how high they thought their chances were. Crime has gone up and the economic situation is the same sh**t it's been since the IMF came in and Manley's attempt to create OPEC for Bauxite fell through. But Holness has been creating temporary states of exception for the police to run ransack. Given him a tough on crime image and crucially, the Americans haven't intervened. (The JLP was traditionally associated with Tiffoli Gardens badmen like Dudus).

Crabcake - not only were Manley and Bustamonte close, but so were Manley and Seaga - educated together, I believe.

[warandwar]

Peter Phillips resigned, making him the only leader of the Comrades never to have been PM. Looked very sick, unfortunately.

Turnout was 37.2%, very very low.

The PNP's silver lining - forner Miss World Lisa Hanna won, she might be the next leader...