THE EDITOR, Sir:
FOR QUITE a while and as recently as Sunday, September 22, 2002, Mr. Golding made statements suggesting that he would not be returning to the JLP party. Three days later the said mouth recanted. I would like for him to define such a character for us.
To me a possible elector, it says, he personally cannot be trusted, he is without integrity and most of all he thinks that the majority of Jamaicans are fools, with short memories or he is such a hero that we will overlook it.
If it takes one man to strengthen a party, I cry shame on the remaining members of that party and think they should all resign. This thing cannot be more scandalous. I have been receiving multiple telephone calls from as far as Canada about the ugliness of the picture.
By and all, given the strong-willed personalities in the JLP party, it is just a matter of time before he is driven out again, perhaps to start yet another party or to re-father his now fatherless party. Win or lose, his credibility is blasted and his true political tones are on display for all to see.
This to me has only damaged the party further. I have never seen an uglier thing more foolishly exhibited. Has the JLP thrown discretion to the wind? Practically informing a nation, that a once proud leader, so desperate for power, that he bowed to the dictates of a former renegade to secure winnings.
Forever that is how I will view the JLP. The PNP, bloated with unfulfilled promises from yesteryears as it relates to crime, is perhaps marginally better.
I know what I will not be doing on that day. These bags of jokers must go.
I am, etc.,
J. M. FLETCHER
Irish Town
