CINP, PPM, TCCP or a Box of Frozen Squid
(CNS): In October 2011, CNS conducted a straw poll about which political group its readers would vote for at the next elections: the PPM, the UDP or a Box of Frozen Squid. Half of the people who took part voted for the squid, 46% for the opposition PPM, and only 4% said they would vote for the ruling United Democratic Party.
The UDP is no more, but we still have the PPM plus two fresh new parties. So we thought we’d try this again and see if sentiments towards a calamari government had changed.
This time, instead of asking a single question about which government you’d like, we’re breaking it down into the most pressing issues of the day and asking which party you trust most to manage them if it won a majority to form the next government.
Without any manifestos, readers may not know exactly what the parties would do about these issues. However, we can be pretty sure that the squid would do nothing. The question is: would that be a better option?
Now, we know that the Box of Squid is not a registered party, but this is just an unscientific straw poll. It is not confined to registered voters and has no bearing on the elections next month. So, relax, have fun, and no cheating.
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Well we all know that PPM is proven leadership. Proven to pay someone to do and study and get nothing done. Maybe if they get in this election and we have a full moon on the same night as the summer solstice and the donkey lays the golden egg then they might get something done.
Will Juju put her name on the ballot as Connolly-O’Connor like she did in the last election? Shame! SHAME! shaMe! if the Election Office allows this hypocritical move to happen again!
It’s O’Connor-Connolly, and has always been. I’m not part of her fan base, but I wanted to set you straight.
Apparently last election she changed it so that she was first on the ballot. That is the point the OP is trying to make.
My apologies to you and 3:34. You’re both completely correct. I guess my mind just rearranged it when I saw it.
I just gave myself a thumbs down.
Over 2000 people , so far, have shown PPM to be the least popular choice in dealing with the issues listed in the poll.
Even with a massive margin of error, this is clearly a sign of anti PPM sentiment.
Why..?
Jujudas, Kenneth , Seymour, Joey and other leeches to come.
A vote for PPM would be a wasted vote, even tho they give you the most handouts.
KYD$14.5 million planning fees waived from 2013 to 2019. That was not PACT or TCCP or CINP. Just sayin’
Now we hear their solution to housing is a public/private partnership with concessions. Who wants more of the same?
Please pardon my ignorance and/or poor eyesight, but how do I see the results of the poll?
CNS: Just click on the box in each poll that says “See Results”.
I must be stupid. I see:
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC
Which party do you trust most to manage this issue?
CINP
PPM
TCCP
A Box of Squid
Vote
520
NO RESULTS
CNS: Could you take a screenshot and send it to info@caymannewsservice.com – Thanks!
I did so.
Thank you for fixing the results problem that some of us were experiencing. Well done as always CNS!
lmao, i cant tell if voters are actually this dense or if its just bots but everyone wanting CNP to run things… you all realize they haven’t posted a manifesto and have no stated polices at this time right?
tccp have not posted either
The people PPM have brought into their party, IS their manifesto.
Don’t need to see it in writing when all I have to do is see who they have lined up to feed at the trough.
Puhleeeze….No more Jujudas, DuhWayne, Kenneth, Mac, and Saunders, for the love of Cayman.
A box of squid have never suggested a bridge from Rum Point to the airport, I believe.
Squid for the win.
Frozen Squid, please. Protocol.
Box of Frozen Squid has never proposed a Cruise Port. Looking better all the time. I look forward to their podcasts.
117 expats voting in an online poll doesnt reflect what will happen April 30
CNS – There is a story/rumour going round this morning that at last night’s candidates meeting, the CINP candidate Michael Myles announced that if elected the CINP would proceed with borrowing money to build a cruise ship mega port in GT harbour. Is that true???
If so then they lost my families votes all of which were going to go to them.
This is very serious..
CINP should make an immediate clarification.
Piers..? No vote from me.
CINP urgent clarification needed please..
Apart from the mixed bag of collective bargaining past track records, it’s nigh impossible to believe that any party banner possesses the thought and motivation to change the status quo, other than laying out there through debates and unified stances being published. Many of them are also liars, ritual substance abusers, and convicted criminals. Governance agency overhaul, funding, and Election Law changes should be among the top three most important topic headers for Caymanian voters who continue to whine every four years about how the system is rigged. It is. Fix it! The Nolan Principles, if they are to be in effect, require that some of the candidates shouldn’t be allowed in public life, let alone leading parties, or being appointed Speaker of the House. Until the machinery works properly, it’s a roll of the dice, with coalition governments where a party stance no longer necessarily applies.
CNS – Your assessment that “The UDP is no more” is premature.
Shortly after the April election, Joey will be deposed and the rogues gallery that Joey invited into the PPM will bring Saunders, Jay, Rollie, and of course their spiritual advisor Mac into the party completing the re-incarnation of the UDP.
I see CINP has their minions out in full force voting in these polls lol cause there is no way they’re sweeping like this in the election. I don’t subscribe to any party here but we can all agree CINP is not winning like this in April…
CINP candidates tick all the boxes to handle
these issues/ industries
Agreed- and for the love of country the PPM hopeless should do the right thing and explode…but they won’t.
Based on what? Come on.
Based on what? They haven’t even revealed a substantive policy platform yet.
To that point the only thing we can judge the party on so far is the set of candidates proposed and aside from a few individuals – the party in my view based on its slate of candidates seems like a business as usual, nothing will fundamentally change, business interests first collection of people the exact sort that have been the source of the disharmony and dysfunction in Cayman for the past 30 years.
Anyone who thinks the CINP is going to fundamentally shift the dynamic in Cayman I have a tower in Paris to sell you.
tccp haven’t released their manifesto either
At least I can feed my family with calamari. No party goin’ feed me.
You sure can, and if you sling your hook with it you might feed your family for a 6 months or more. And I’ll hedge a bet a box of squid has more brain cells and honesty that all the parties and independents put together.
ppm is history
Caymanians are too smart to be fooled by them again
Caymanians may be too smart, but it’s Jamaicans voting PPM .
How do you think Kenneth Mac Dumbdum and Saunders keep their seats..?
Vote PPM and turn Cayman into Jamaica.
If Cayman was a Spanish speaking nation the phrase of the day would be: Adios ppm
Everyone of this issues are the cause of ppm. It’s Hightime we send them packing
Part of the appeal of the box of squid is that there has never been a reported case in which a box of squid sold out a country to a development cabal or any other special interest for that matter.
Hilarious that the box of squid is preferred over the PPM in 11 of the 12 choices.
Hope this is the case and certainly an indication of the very low standing of the PPM in circles where people can read and write.
BTE and BTW excepted.
This election is for the people and CINP
I wish the CINP could have a clean sweep like this in the actual elections but I guess one can dream.
I would have been okay with it before last night when Myles said they were in support of building a new cruise berthing facility. Now I’m more convinced it needs to be TCCP with a couple CINP sprinkled in for support.
Deez Nuts!
Thank you CNS for allowing us to express our views on a subject by subject basis.
I voted just for the ‘halibut’.
It is interesting that at this stage the PPM are ‘floundering’.
Encouraging indeed and as much as I hope it’s a reflection of the end result, just have to remember BTE BTW Brac and WBW voters don’t follow CNS , and will vote PPM in those districts because that is where their vote is bought.
I am glad to see that the only support the PPM is getting is from 4 of their own candidates. The other PPM candidates all opted for the Box of Squid.
I can’t wait to see ‘Frozen Box of Squid’ billboards popping up in all districts. Maybe later branching out into a podcast, focusing on the melting Frozen Box of Squid as a voiceover answers questions. Wonderful.
I voted on the basis that the Box of Squid was the only fishy box in a bunch of fishy options that had bothered to publish anything resembling a manifesto, although even that was mainly advice to keep frozen until use. Still it was the only comprehensive honest statement available.