ELECTIONS 2010

[W1nTry]

The country has voted for change, now let's hope its change for the good. Let's hope they nail hart ass first to the jail wall and ALL THOSE ASSOCIATED with that whole sham. Let's hope that ppl will stop playing the race card, the losers are losers and they have been good enough sports about it imho, the winners need to prove themselves of all the promises they made, AND THEY HAVE MADE ALOT. Let's hope the last regime didn't clean out the treasury and leave the incumbent with a debt that would make Japan after WWII shudder....

And just btw, if ANYONE and I do mean ANYONE on this forum plays that race card here, i'll PERSONALLY issue the VI status into effect! We can have good clean pecong, but we're all considered civilized until proven otherwise. Keep it clean ppl we're all GAMERS!

[Arcmanov]

So does that mean I can't tell dem dutty, stinkin PNM to haul dey mc? 

Anyway. 25th May. SSDD. We still have no hope.

Humour me for a bit with an elaboration on this.

[Eroo]

There were some stuff I agreed with Mr.Manning on but most I disagreed with, however I still felt sad for him when I saw him last night. Yes it was self inflicted but its still a hard pill to swallow when you realise your career has come to an end. I'll give him props for a speech that was 10000000 times better than the vindictive speech Panday gave when he lost.

[Arcmanov]

Imagine a girl call a radio station just now, crying her heart out because PNM lose...

HOW do you get so brainwashed by a political party that it leads to actual TEARS when they lose office?


I wish I could call just to say: 'it GOOD!!!'

[Crixx_Creww]

So does that mean I can't tell dem dutty, stinkin PNM to haul dey mc?  

Anyway. 25th May. SSDD. We still have no hope.

Humour me for a bit with an elaboration on this.

SSDD is same shit different day

[UltimateGamer]

^^ How do you ... easy! LACK OF EDUCATION. Anyone who blindly follows anything suffers from it. Thank god i am around educated ppl here.

[Exar_Kun]

I was positively giddy last night.

Seriously, this time it was personal. There's lots of people in PNM I dislike, Colm Imbert, Conrad Enil, Jerry Narace, Martin Joseph etc but there's a special level of HATE that Patrick has cultivated over the past few years.

Never been a PNM supporter but I definitely can't say I ever personally disliked him at any point, even in the 18-18 and when he outright won in 2002. It was just business, just politics.
All the s*** we've put up with since then though has made this personal, as anyone who watched campaign ads can see. And accordingly, it felt GOOD seeing him downcast and beaten last night. I looked forward to his concession more than Kamla's acceptance.

Time to him to hit the backbench imo, give Rowley a shot. Manning still has his good points (there's no better speaker currently in politics for example) but at this point he's as stigmatizing as Bas was. Plus I can't imagine the PNM MPs wanting much to do with him. It's hard enough transitioning from a Govt minister to opposition MP, how much harder when you know you should have had at least 2.5 more years before it happened.

All props to the coalition, didn't expect such a beat down. I'm VERY interested now in seeing what the ministerial appointments are. Hopefully Dooks as Finance, god knows we need a Finance minister who actually knows about economics (such a novel idea!).

[W1nTry]

Nah man arc, pecong is healthy, is if men start to play the race card i'll whip out VI!

[woodyear99]

I don't expect miracles to happen, crime won't fall immediately, employment numbers won't magically rise etc. What I do know is that I wasn't happy with the past few years in terms of government spending.

I assume some of those that are upset about the PNM loss is due to the fact that they had something to gain, whether individually or through some family member. The fact is that the majority was not satisfied and the whole race thing is stupid.

I was surprised at the huge margin, thought it would have been a much closer race.

[Red Paradox]

The margin was huge...I was shocked to the point that I drank till 3 this morning. But I guess we'll have to see wats gonna go on for the next few years. Like a fellow Gatter said here earlier, I hope too that they keep the tertiary level education based programmes and loans, as well as the educational programmes....and I hope  (I don't give a m****f*** what y'all think or say) that they don't appoint the "Honorable" Jack Warner, Minister of Finance.....

[Crixx_Creww]

according to the honourable mp for san fernando.. which ever one

Employment is at an all time high, 5.4%
And you see WANTED signs everywhere... there are loads of jobs available...what exactly are people doing that they can afford to not take these jobs.

AND VERY GOOD POINT ABOUT leaving government early.

I hear man take out mortgage and car loan and so on and so forth on the premise that they had ah  5 years to pay it in...
pressure for dem

Good riddance @ Karen and a certain Minister of uneducation

[Red Paradox]

Good riddance @ Karen and a certain Minister of uneducation

LMAO
Crixx you not easy nuh...lol minister of unedcuation

[Exar_Kun]

The margin was huge...I was shocked to the point that I drank till 3 this morning. But I guess we'll have to see wats gonna go on for the next few years. Like a fellow Gatter said here earlier, I hope too that they keep the tertiary level education based programmes and loans, as well as the educational programmes....and I hope  (I don't give a m****f*** what y'all think or say) that they don't appoint the "Honorable" Jack Warner, Minister of Finance.....

There's certain things you can't just take back. Social programs being the major thing. GATE is going nowhere unless we end up in a financial crisis like the late 80s. Neither is CEPEP.
And Jack won't be minister of Finance (lol @ all the Warner hate). If I had to guess I'd say National Security, Works, Foreign Affairs or Trade. I hope it's security, whatever hate people have for Jack there's one thing no one can deny, the man can make things happen.

[Red Paradox]

whatever hate people have for Jack there's one thing no one can deny, the man can make things happen.

that's true
and he made was in one of the funniest vids I've scene in years LMAO

Andrew Jennings: how much money did you make?
Jack Warner: Ask your mother.
AJ:Ask my...
JW: Ask your mother.
AJ: My mother's dead now actually but thank you for reminding me of tha--
JW: Go find her, find her!
AJ: Thank you so much Mr. Warner, Thank you


lol priceless bastard

[Eroo]

The fact is social programs will be cut if they can't be afforded. This matters not to who is in power, UNC or PNM. Hopefully there will always be a successful economy to keep these.

[Fkacn_tt]

^I'm not trying to be any race war starter, but my question is will there be any discrimination with the admission of these funds to pursue a tertiary education. I know alot of people are worried about this right now especially with rumors of UTT being closed.

[AR!Ø]

I cannot see things like GATE and other education/employment programmes just vanishing the minute uncle P. leaves. Things like these that people rely on are probably going to shift in terms of priority but outright removal is simply not viable

[Saxito Pau]

I really hope GATE remains
I looking to apply for it brisk, brisk when I start my degree later this year..

[Archer]

Yes didn't she make it clear that they are keeping that and will work on expanding it.

[Arcmanov]

It was made quite clear that GATE would be expanded to include technical and vocational training courses as well...so lets put to rest all that 'Kamla tekkin way GATE' talk.

I blame Manning for putting that STUPID idea into voters' heads.