Dear Editor,

Columnist Christopher Burns in his piece in The Agenda of July 3, 2016, titled ‘Portia’s fear of rejection and the future of the PNP’, and many others have provided good reasons Portia Simpson Miller should relinquish the presidency of the People’s National Party. Agreed!

However, there is one very good reason she may be justified in not doing so at this time: there is no one better to replace her.

Apparently, she is being advised by party bigwigs to name a successor. While, as leader, she must carry the can for the party’s shocking defeat, she can hardly be faulted for now turning a deaf ear to those who provided such appalling advice, such as calling an early election before so many plans had borne fruit, ‘bad-minded’ focus on Andrew Holness’s house, insulting the electorate by not debating, failing to formulate an answer to the Jamaica Labour Party tax plan — the most obvious of the many schoolboy mistakes.

You can’t replace somebody with nobody; certainly not with any of the brain-dead architects of the worst election campaign in the party’s history.

Errol W A Townsend

Ontario, Canada

ewat@rogers.com