United Bermuda Party MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has slammed both the Premier and Cabinet Minister Walter Roban for what she sees as a failure to apologise when the situation demands.

During yesterday's motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly, Ms Gordon-Pamplin seized on Dr. Ewart Brown's comments on a Hott 107.5 radio broadcast yesterday morning, when the Premier spoke about fellow PLP MP Walter Roban's recent e-mail controversy.

Mr. Roban recently told a white voter never to write to him again after she e-mailed him to complain about the Premier's Uighur actions, sending the woman what she called a "vitriolic response" to her note.

The Opposition and the Voters' Rights Association have since called on Mr. Roban to apologise for his message. Mr. Roban has issued no apology thus far.

On Wednesday morning's Hott 107.5 radio show, Dr. Brown said that while communication itself should be viewed in a positive light, this call for an apology represents the "kindergarten" of exchanges.

He added: "The whole concept of apologising doesn't sit well with me."

Ms Gordon-Pamplin took issue with his radio comments, telling the House that the Premier's disinclination to apologise "does not bode well" for the rest of the Government.

"The fish rots from the head," she said.

She took Mr. Roban to task for his recent article on the PLP blog, when he linked a Bermuda-based group on the Facebook website to an anti-black British political party, the British National Party (BNP).

The Facebook group was at first called Bermudians Against Terrorists but was soon after renamed Bermudians Against Government Corruption.

It was set up by 20-year-old black Bermudian Wayne Ball Jr., and has no affiliation with the white supremacist British organisation.

Ms Gordon-Pamplin invoked the Premier's radio comments in the House, saying of Mr. Roban's article: "Do you have someone saying, 'I was wrong'? No, what we're hearing from the head is 'apologies don't sit well with me'."

She added: "It's not about grovelling. It's about being decent enough, moral enough and human enough to say 'I was wrong'."

Ms Gordon-Pamplin told the House that she supports Mr. Ball and fellow protester Janice Battersbee, who organised the recent anti-Ewart Brown demonstrations, in their right to speak out on issues that concern them in the community.