expect to have an easy time. He has the huge task of rebuilding his party's image as a good manager, the image which causes the UBP to win elections. If he cannot do that very quickly, he and his party will fail.

Rebuilding will not be easy because there is a great deal to rebuild. First the new leader will need to confirm the determination of this Government to heal racial divisions and destructive racial perceptions. He will then need to re-establish the confidence in the Bermuda Dollar which was destroyed by ill-advised Referendum advertising.

It will then be necessary to find a way to help the badly troubled retail sector. Good shopping is part of Bermuda's way of life and is a big part of the Bermuda vacation experience. Providing help will not be popular politically because of the legend of Front Street profits.

Tourism is in need of an overhaul on just about every level from the Ministry to the hotel stock to the people's attitude to visitors. We need to move our approach ahead about 25 years. To that end we will have to take the same look at tourism that we took at the Police and it may be necessary to bring in a Colin Coxall for tourism.

Education is a highly complicated puzzle. But a new leader will have to recognise that Bermudians want their children educated well. They prove that by the sacrifices they make to pay to send their children to school and university. Bermudians do not want Government to put in place a manifestly second-rate system with social dangers. It will not be easy to reverse long-term bad decisions quickly.

Drugs must not be underestimated as a threat to Bermuda. They are the source of much of today's crime and violence in a Country which both wants and needs to be safe. Government will have to provide double leadership against drugs because the PLP does not help, and give every support, including cash, to Commissioner Coxall and Mr. Mansfield Brock, the head of the National Drug Commission.

Premier Saul or Premier Woolridge will have to produce a tighter and more effective Civil Service which is conscious of service and careful about costs.

This will need to be achieved while healing the Country and the UBP. It will be hard to do especially since it will be necessary to have in his Cabinet some people with slender talents. He will lead a severely divided parliamentary group badly torn by Independence. In all probability he will have some very angry and even destructive people on his back bench.

He will face a damaged Country with deep doubts about the integrity and the motives of all politicians. The people are also in a mood to demand results.

They have been worn down by the recession and what has been at best a slow recovery and by their concerns for Bermuda. Then they were angered by a good deal of bad behaviour during the excessively long and highly divisive and debilitating debate on Independence which the majority of the people found unnecessary because they were certain of the answer.