Dear Editor,
Nobody comes out of the first part of the Nigel Dharamlall affair with any glory. Not the political elite (on all sides), not the police and the DPP, not the screaming hordes on social media (the open sewer of discussion), not the tiny NGO’s making noise, not the man himself or his ritzy lawyer. The only one to suffer is the poor young lady in question. Time for the (too many) interested parties to butt out and leave the police and the relevant authorities to do their work. Without fear or favour. The President might take a lead by making Dharamlall’s’ administrative leave’ more formal and longer. A tainted politician is ineffectual. We have plenty recent examples in the UK. They never recover their authority. Better they quietly fade away. Think John Profumo sixty years ago. He redeemed himself with good work. Eventually.
Sincerely,
John ‘Bill Cotton/Reform’ Mair