Talk:People's National Party

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I would like to call into question the use of this articles description of "a third-worldist foreign policy". What did the author mean by this because first of all the classification of third world is a highly prejorative phrase in that it is an old soviet phrase and secondly all third world governments act in the same fashion some are far more militaristic than others, there are a vast number of differences in the way in which "third World" governments run their respective countries and to lump them into groups does us and them a disservice.

[edit] Policies, platform, etc.

This article gives only the name of the party, and tells of its electoral successes. There's no information about what it stands for or plans to do (let alone what it has done).

Does it support or oppose free enterprise?

Is it a "peoples party" in the classic Marxist sense which defines the "people" as anyone who supports progress towards Communism and "enemies of the people" as anyone who believes in freedom of speech / religion, private property, the right to sell your labor to the highest bidder or start your own business, etc.?

Having the term People's in its name makes it sound like it is for the benefit of the general populace of Jamaica, but should we simply assume this is so? Or should we examine evidence for and against this supposition?

What has PNP done for anybody, other than get itself elected? Uncle Ed 18:56, 1 March 2006 (UTC)