MR. BRASCOE LEE'S comments on the Breakfast Club yesterday morning were very interesting. He is justifying talking to the PNP by saying that he will use any suitable vehicle which will honourably implement the principles dear to himself and the NDM. It leads me to wonder. If Mr. Golding has rejoined the JLP because they show a willingness to honour these principles, why didn't Mr. Lee join as well? If he feels the JLP may not honour the principles when they are in government but has agreed only for political expediency, then why won't the PNP do the same?
Publicly the PNP have denied approaching the NDM and that there were any meetings with the hope of adopting NDM principles. On this basis will Mr. Lee now join the JLP, the only major political party publicly willing to examine and adopt some or all of the NDM principles? The constitutional changes in the PNP manifesto are farther removed from the NDM position than are the JLP's. This unlikely constitutional coalition therefore does not seem like a championing of a cause by Mr. Lee. Mr. Lee says that the PNP respects the NDM as an entity, but this negotiation on his part will help to destroy that entity.
