Dear Sir,

The following is an open letter to the Government of Bermuda.

There is grave concern when a sitting government is determined to ignore its own perils. That the Premier, the finance minister, the home affairs minister, the Attorney-General, the rest of the Cabinet, the backbenchers and selected senators are so engaged in being absorbed with the power and authority of their positions, they allow a spirit of self-will to override their common sense.

Even more disgraceful is their desire to ignore the pleas of their people. The harsh truth is when the people see a decision that will condemn the country to a period of decades of negative hardship and the Government refuses to heed the warnings.

In little Bermuda, the sitting government refuses to respect its own people only because its people refuse to fight back. The insult that borders on community suicide is the refusal of people who think they have enough financial means to hover above the challenge.

Unfortunately, 21 miles will not grow any greater and we recognise our value as people living here is based purely on class and working station.

The ideals that make a slave plantation exist are the whims of a sitting government that serve those who have wealth, and the ability of that sitting government to convince the people that the community will only get stronger as long as the people remain as voluntary servants of the wealthy.

They spend an abundance of time creating convincing arguments that they are the only ones with any ability to develop a plan of economic certainty for the whole populace.

This is always behind a curtain of hollow promises. The difficulty remains, how do you get the population to see the truth and expose the population enough to desire a halt to this negative experience of life in Bermuda. After all, it is still little Bermuda, a little island 21 miles long.

JOHN H HOLDIPP III