The Editor, Sir:

And so it came to pass that Peter Bunting found a way to speak the truth to his party leader, however cryptic and cowardly the method.

Why has it taken him so long to understand? Where was this voice of truth in September 2007 when the Jamaican electorate decisively rejected Portia Simpson Miller as prime minister of Jamaica? Why did he not speak the truth to her then? Why did he not tell her that she no longer had any moral authority to lead the PNP, so long as the purpose of that leadership was to offer herself as a potential prime minister to the same electorate that had so definitively rejected her?

truth delayed

Like justice, truth delayed is truth denied. In those circumstances, we are entitled to conclude that Bunting's motive in speaking belatedly is not truth but expediency.

What of his party colleagues, most of whom have still yet to speak truth publicly or privately? Are they any better than he? If both sides of the political divide continue to play this retarded game of gross disrespect for the will of the Jamaican people, with the result that rejected leaders are perennially recycled and none step down in order that the people be given a fresh choice, what do we the people do about that?

I am, etc.,

GORDON ROBINSON

gordon_robinson@flowja.com

Kingston 10