their best to meet the Country's needs. The people having spoken on Independence, it might be best for the UBP to consider what the people want before they consider the demands of their own internal politics which tend to be selfish.

Basically we think Bermudians want a Government which listens to them and responds. They do not want to have to fight with their government and have a referendum to get a view across.

Bermudians give every indication of wanting a well managed Country which is safe for both them and for Bermuda's visitors. They do not want masked robbers in Hamilton. Thankfully, the new Commissioner of Police, chosen by the Governor, Lord Waddington, seems to be on his way to giving us some good policing.

A new leader will have to work to restore confidence in the law itself. Too often lately in any number of small, and as few large, ways it has been far too convenient to flout the law. Managing well is more complicated because it involves any number of managers. The UBP were once excellent managers with a high reputation but in more recent years things have slipped, not in all areas but in some. Cabinet Ministers manage. The UBP has to get over a tendency to leave cabinet ministers in office when they are failing. You cannot establish a reputation for good managenent that way and a new leader will need to restore public confidence in the UBP's ability to manage.

A new leader needs to take a look at where to save the people some money.

Irksome government cars should be among the early things to go. The useless Bermuda Housing Corporation should be the second thing to go. Then a leader needs to decide if Bermuda needs so many cabinet ministers. Any number of departments can be amalgamated with a huge saving in ministerial salaries and in civil servants who have multiplied as cabinet ministers have built their empires.

Among the major issues to be dealt with is reviving tourism. A new leader will need to convince Bermudians of the importance of visitors to our high standard of living and of the need to properly look after those visitors. To that end, a leader will have to start by solving the personnel problems at Immigration.

A new leader needs to believe in the war on drugs and to understand just how bad things have become. A leader needs to know that drugs can and will destroy Bermuda faster than anything and we need to put as much effort into combatting drugs as we put into maintaining the economy.

There should be a prior agreement from any new leader to remove the Minister of Education and the Permanent Secretary, no deals, and scrap the concept of a mega-school, which only about three people want, and appoint a tough minister to sort out the unhappy mess in education. Faith in the Bermuda dollar and in the economy has been weakened by the referendum debate and a series of ill-advised pre-referendum advertisements. We will need to restore confidence and a new leader will have to seek help from financial leaders, other than the minister, to achieve that. A new leader should use Senate seats to fill gaps in Cabinet talent and, where necessary, choose Senators with specific talents to fill Cabinet jobs.

But most of all a new leader needs to stay in touch with the people, listen and respond.