Dear Sir,

It is becoming increasingly unclear who speaks for the people of Bermuda these days, when all that is needed is a group of people who stridently take a passionate point of view and speak very loudly to assert that they are the voice of the masses.

Add to that, you call a daily talk show with multiple and repetitive calls on the same day and say you speak for the people to a government that they clearly do not support and say they won’t listen to.

It is a given that we enjoy the right of free speech and protest in a lawful assembly to make our views heard, but to posit that their voices are the majority because they say so is not only false but ridiculous.

We have the issue of bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform being sought by the Progressive Labour Party, which opposes the grant to long-term residents of 15 years the right to apply for permanent resident’s certificate status and the right of application for full status to PRCs who have been here for 20 years.

The sanity of the Government in this matter has been questioned by one Opposition member, with extreme prejudice.

There appears to be popular support for the Government’s position on this, to hear the Government tell it, but these other citizens are loud and in your face, while demanding for you to see it their way, or face civil disobedience until those they disagree with come to their senses.

The question that begs repeating is, if the Opposition is committed to comprehensive reform so vehemently, then why did it not pursue this matter with some dispatch over three successive terms in office?

The intellectual dishonesty over this matter is far louder over the chants of “no, no, no” by the faithful minority.

Is it true that the people’s No 1 concern is that the historical narrative of real and imagined wrongdoing should trump doing what is morally right in the present?

Should we not forge ahead with a view to the importance of the future given as much weight as the past?

The people spoke loudly in 1998, 2003, 2007 and in 2012 with no question about the right to govern and press ahead with their respective mandates.

So what has changed now where it appears that the losers in a General Election spout a continual narrative that it is the voice of all of the people and not just those who voted for them?

This country is still a democracy, warts and all, where general elections are held when the Premier calls, or five years, and the majority of the voters decide what is the preference of “the people”.

No amount of effort to unseat the Government will work, short of criminal malfeasance.

Her Majesty’s Government will not entertain frivolous attempts to dissolve the Government because of a disgruntled or frustrated Opposition that wants simply to have their own way.

The PLP is faced with unseating the One Bermuda Alliance the old-fashioned way and no amount of whipping up emotions and blocking up traffic thoroughfares unlawfully will stop the Government from carrying out “the people’s” business, for it was they who elected them by majority.

When the people have spoken, they are never wrong.

WAYNE B SCOTT