Deputy leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and candidate for West Kingston Desmond McKenzie is reminding party supporters that it is not crowds at political rallies that will win elections.

Pointing to the massive crowd that turned up at Sunday’s mass meeting of the ruling party in Mandeville, Manchester to hear Prime Minister Andrew Holness fly the election gate, McKenzie said that without a vote supporters cannot help the party to be victorious.  

“Regardless of how much you love your party, let me advise you, if you don’t have a vote you can’t help the Jamaica Labour Party, and it don’t mek sense you full up the bus dem,” he told the large gathering of supporters at a mass meeting now underway in Port Antonio, Portland.

According to McKenzie, while there is a shortage of even green female garments, wearing the party’s colour won’t help either.

“Regardless of how much of it you wear you can’t carry it to drop it in the ballot box,” he said.

He urged the supporters to take this election seriously, explaining that it is the most important election the country will face.

“It is youth against them, us against them, and the future of Jamaica,” he told his audience.  

McKenzie also used his address to blast sections of the media for criticising the speech made by Holness in Mandeville Sunday night.

“If you listen the news following Holness address you hear the hypocrites who are supporting the PNP (People’s National Party) talk bout Holness tell lie and everybody is waging some level of criticism about the speech he gave,” McKenzie said.

He charged that nobody noticed when the PNP provided inaccurate figures on the level of poverty.

Likening the PNP to milk, which expires if it’s not used by a certain time, he said they are a party without substance.

“After this election we are going to open a retirement home for members of the PNP,” he said.