October 5, 2012Dear Sir,I get frequent enjoyment reading Walton Brown’s columns as he contorts the English language to justify the actions of his party and its former leader and to attempt to turn the usually benign and “light touch” administration of the British into something sinister. When that fails and the facts get in the way, he simply ignores them.His most recent column is a classic example of this. He praises the recent Tax Information Exchange Agreement signed between Bermuda because it enables Bermuda passport holders to apply for Australian visas online “as do British passport holders”, conveniently ignoring the fact that every Bermuda passport holder is entitled to a British passport anyway. Later, he condemns the British for allegedly giving away the right of Bermuda passport holders to visa free travel in Europe’s Schengen group, again ignoring the fact that all Bermudians have this right as soon as they get a British passport.Still, Mr Brown’s attempt to justify “Premier Ewart Brown’s bold, controversial and divisive decision” to bring the Uighurs to Bermuda was justified because it recognised “the geopolitical and economic reality that America matters more to Bermuda than the UK”.That would be fine, except Mr Brown cannot point to a single tangible benefit of the decision, while it has strained relations with the UK and has stranded four men in Bermuda, a reality even they are waking up to.Mr Brown simply cannot get around the fact that the best foreign policy act of the last decade for Bermuda is the grant of British passports to Bermudians.DIPLOMATWarwick