JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) Leader Andrew Holness says that the party is now unstoppable as it builds up momentum leading into next Thursday’s general election.

“All they are doing, and all they are saying, the Labour Party is unstoppable,” Holness told a huge crowd in Stony Hill square, Monday, supporting the candidacy of Juliet Cuthbert Flynn, JLP candidate for St Andrew West Rural.

Poking fun at the People’s National Party (PNP) campaign theme, “Step Up to Progress”, Holness said:

“The only step now that must go on is that Peter Phillips and Portia Simpson Miller step aside, because Andrew is ready to take over.”

“The time has come for you to finally have a payday in Jamaica. The time has come for you to experience prosperity in your life,” the Opposition leader told supporters.

He recalled that his predecessors, Edward Seaga and Bruce Golding, as head of the party, had suggested that, “we may not all be rich, but no one has to be poor”.

“The vision of the Jamaica Labour Party is to remove the scourge of poverty,” he added.

Holness said that poor Jamaicans do not need pity, what they need is a liberator, because poverty is like slavery.

“What the poor need is someone who will advocate on their behalf to create wealth and prosperity. What the poor need is a champion for growth in Jamaica, and the Jamaica Labour Party is your champion for growth in Jamaica, and your champion for prosperity in your lives,” he stated.

He said that the JLP will win next week’s general election because the party was not responsible for incidents such as the dead babies and bad gas scandal and the CHIKV epidemic.

“The JLP is the best option to change your future for the better, and we are going to win this election because the people of Jamaica want a break: They have been taxed and overburdened,” he said.

“We stand between the PNP and their destruction of Jamaica. We will defeat the evil cancer of the PNP that has been a scourge on the country for the past 26 years,” he stated.

He concluded that, while Prime Minister Simpson Miller was “the country’s nightmare” after 2007, he has come to help Jamaicans fulfil their dream, “because my dream is to help you achieve your dream”.