Dear Editor,

UPP leaders and the members who support them are digging in regardless of how the party is portrayed in the public. They know there was hanky-panky at the convention resulting in a blowout win for chairman Gisele Isaac and political leader Jahmale Pringle, but still this is the cry from those who love their party and want so much to see the back of the ALP administration:

LEH AHWE FORGET ARL AH DAT AND JUST COME TOGETHER AND UNITE THE PARTY, JACK

Most of them are people who if the store where they usually buy only short them 10 cents, would vow not to go back there and buy because they did not get it back.

Under which rock do these persons live?

There is solid evidence that there was cheating at the convention. Would the public get this evidence? UPP was always a closed mouth party. To their detriment. Look at how they handled their successes and accomplishments.

They hired town criers who had other fish to fry and also throw their communications eggs in the Crusader basket, a station that is probably heard by one fifth of the nation.

Do they think that the persons who felt cheated would readily say they will forget that their positions were usurped and set to work with the cheaters as though nothing had happened?

And look who they had to fall back for. Pringle is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier and his handler acts like a power-hungry predator.

So when they keep saying Pringle was D-U-L-Y- E-L-E-C-T-E-D!!!! Do they think this would solve the problem when they know he was elected because of cheating by his cabal within the party?

If the ones who are aggrieved were to say they would bury the hatchet and unite without any truth and reconciliation achieved, then I would never vote for that party.

Why? Simply because I would know that the united front is only a bandaid put on a gaping wound, which will not hold. The ensuing rupture could be worse than what is being experienced under the current administration.

The UPP as presently configured is like an aging elephant limping to the dying field. If you have doubts, look around. Where are the former Party legends? See any of them around?

Baldwin last Thursday sounded his age. He is trying, but only maybe to stem some of the pain which he helped to cause by his neglect to nip things in the bud early.

If the three MPs still have political aspirations, they should immediately approach the governor general and state their lack of confidence in the political leader of the UPP, and declare they are ready to form the new opposition.

At least the people will see a positive step taken to do some healing. Notice I said three MPs.

One made the fourth MP but slipped out when he saw his opportunity, and is slyly waiting for Pringle’s demise in the party to pounce on the leadership. His chances are zilch for all kinds of reasons.

However, they should think of forming a new political entity. Isaac will not give in easily, and the party will not ask her to resign. They don’t seem to have the intestines to do that.

Parties come and go, and the UPP has outlived its shelf life. The best alternative for the MPs is to form a new party. With the mood for change in the country, they stand a good chance of success.

REALITY KNOCKS