JLP condemns Miranda Wellington’s warning that PNP is ready for war
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Senator and Senior Communications Task Force member, Marlon Morgan, is condemning a declaration by St Elizabeth South West aspirant, the People’s National Party (PNP’s) Miranda Wellington, that her party is ready for war.
“This is not going to be an easy victory but I want you to know that we prepared for war and if a war, a war”, Wellington stated in a battle cry to constituents at a recent PNP meeting in the constituency.
Senator Morgan says Wellington should apologise for her reckless, vile and intemperate remarks on the political platform.
“Amid a history of political violence, Jamaica has invested heavily over the years in building an electoral system that is now the envy of many around the world, and has come too far in terms of our political maturity to return to the days of vulgar, vile and reckless utterances from the political platform. Such utterance can only serve to incite violence and politically-motivated hostility”, Morgan commented.
The senator says the PNP standard-bearer went too far and was out of line.
“Miranda Wellington’s comments regarding war, have no place in modern Jamaica, and must be condemned by all well-thinking Jamaicans. Enough is enough. Miranda Wellington owes her political opponent Floyd Green, and the country as a whole, a sincere apology. Those vile and reckless comments coming from her, given her substantive job as an educator, make it that much more egregious. She ought to know better and should always be mindful of the moral and social duty she owes her students and others who may look up to her”, Morgan stated.
Senator Morgan argued that Jamaica is seeing signs of increasing “desperation, recklessness and vile utterances emanating from the PNP platform in recent weeks”.
“From Dayton Campbell’s remarks about going lower when ‘they go low’, and Heatha Miller-Bennett’s assertion that those who switch will end up in a ditch, to Donna Scott-Mottley’s false and misleading allegation that the Government brought the Parliamentary term to an end on June 24 to thwart the tabling of the Integrity Commission’s Annual Report, the PNP has been descending to new lows”, Morgan argued.
The senator says PNP president Mark Golding should exhibit some modicum of leadership and regard for decency by directing Wellington to apologise and rein in his candidates and party representatives, especially on the political stomp.
