PNP Meeting | Crawford foresees landslide victory for the PNP on September 3

The People's National Party's Damion Crawford has declared that on election night a tractor will be needed to clear the landslide following the party's victory in the September 3 poll.

“Send in the tractor, it will be a landslide,” he promised.

He was speaking on Saturday night to thousands of People's National Party (PNP) supporters crammed into Cross Roads, St Andrew, for the party’s parish rally for Corporate Area constituencies ahead of Nomination Day on Monday.

Crawford was one of a long slate of speakers at the rally of councillors, caretakers, incumbents and national speakers.

The charismatic Crawford, the Opposition Spokesman on Education, thanked the thousands of Comrades who he said stayed with the party when times were tough.

“None of you surrendered when the tides were low and friends were few,” said Crawford.

He also presented many examples of the injustices he said have been meted out to the lower class of business operators in the entertainment sector. He rallied comrades on the perceived favouritism shown to large entertainment entities and individuals who were given preference over small operators.

Further, he poured cold water on the critics he said attacked him for things he has done on the campaign trail, while remaining silent when others from the governing party do the same thing.

Crawford recently wiped windshields in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, on a promise he made, but was criticised for pulling off a stunt. The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) issued a release rubbishing the action and urging that he should not be taken seriously.

It was a rally that should have been held on August 10, but clashed with a JLP mass rally where leader, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, announced the date of the election.

The meeting was held in Cross Roads to rally support for voters in the Corporate Area.

The PNP holds six of the 15 constituencies in the parishes of Kingston and St Andrew and each of the incumbents and caretakers promised that the constituency they represent would be in the column of the PNP on election night.

- Erica Virtue

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