Dear Editor,
As I read the Jamaica Observer article on the Opposition leader's proposed shadow cabinet reshuffle, I chuckled all the way to my keyboard and my trusted mouse to give a comment.
While this may be a positive move on the part of the JLP, it should not be construed by the party's faithful as the "everything" that is going to re-engage the party in a love affair with an informed and an inquisitive electorate.
In fact, this gesture is not even the main thing. What the electorate wants to see is the party as a movement, an idea, a vision, and its leaders that embodied those visions, ideas, and movements.
Perception in politics far outweighs reality, and the JLP must find creative ways to stem public perception that tomorrow it may very well shoot itself in the foot and carry out some inexplicable acts of unforced errors.
Fernandez Smith
Duanvale PO
fgeorgesmith@yahoo.com
JLP needs more than a reshuffle
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As I read the Jamaica Observer article on the Opposition leader's proposed shadow cabinet reshuffle, I chuckled all the way to my keyboard and my trusted mouse to give a comment.
While this may be a positive move on the part of the JLP, it should not be construed by the party's faithful as the "everything" that is going to re-engage the party in a love affair with an informed and an inquisitive electorate.
In fact, this gesture is not even the main thing. What the electorate wants to see is the party as a movement, an idea, a vision, and its leaders that embodied those visions, ideas, and movements.
Perception in politics far outweighs reality, and the JLP must find creative ways to stem public perception that tomorrow it may very well shoot itself in the foot and carry out some inexplicable acts of unforced errors.
Fernandez Smith
Duanvale PO
fgeorgesmith@yahoo.com
JLP needs more than a reshuffle
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