Dear Sir,

Yet another sad day for Bermuda. When I heard the news this morning (yesterday) that the House of Assembly has been adjourned until February, I was shocked that the people’s business has been hijacked by an uncontrolled mob, who, incidentally, are a minority of the electorate.

The Bermuda Industrial Union membership is about 5 per cent of the voting public, and are we going to allow them, and their cohorts, to jeopardise the running of Bermuda?

While the general public are permitted to do peaceful demonstrations — peaceful being the operative word — they should not be allowed to prevent elected members entering the House of Assembly. I wonder how Margaret Thatcher would have handled this situation.

Mr Speaker, Mr Premier and the Leader of the loyal Opposition, you should be ashamed of yourselves to allow this to happen. Please reconsider your actions and do not allow this to happen again.

The House should have met today, but, maybe we are no longer a democracy when we bow down to an unruly minority.

All right-thinking individuals must express their views and not allow this to happen. I was pleased to see the letters in today’s paper, which were all signed, no hiding behind pseudonyms, tweets or Facebook nonsense.

Action causes a reaction, and while I do not agree with the way the situation was handled the other day, police are human beings and will react if they are being attacked.

The time is now for the silent majority to become vocal and to let the world know that this is a democracy and that we will not allow our House of Assembly to be hijacked by a minority.

ANTONY SIESE