February 18, 2013Dear Sir,The election of the OBA Government has indeed ushered in historic and ironic change in Bermuda. In fact, it’s worth pointing out just what has changed since December 17, 2012. Here’s a potential list:1. A crane and scaffolding spent ten days at the House of Assembly and no one asked whether the work was necessary, how much it cost or who got the contract.2. All the marine engineering work is now the sole purview of one company and there is silence.3. Most of the landscaping work is doled out to one company and there is silence.4. The report of the Auditor General warrants only a day’s headline and (a Saturday at that).5. The swelling of the ranks of the Premier’s personal staff is reported on page six.6. No ministry contains the word sports and only one columnist has spotted it.7. A Government MP has acquired a controlling interest in a company that might possibly, potentially (you never know) end up supplying something to Government and it’s hailed as good business as opposed to a precursor to corruption.8. An election promise is broken in the first 60 days and all the usual objecting suspects are falling over themselves to support it.Change has truly come to Bermuda and what used to be billed as “holding people accountable” is now termed “sour grapes”. If the PLP want to learn one lesson as they prepare to return to government, it is to devote some energy and resources to managing their message and broadening the media environment. Its toxicity is what caused much of their grief in the last decade. Meanwhile, in spite of the media’s kid gloves with this new Government, the country is paying attention and taking careful note of the new order of things; a new order which looks so much like the old.A S SIMONSPaget