Normally a member of an organization is advised to praise in public but criticize in private, this is why Fredrick McAlpine, Member of Parliament for Pineridge, has been so heavily criticized by supporters of the Free National Movement(FNM) and being praised by members of the opposition but sometimes when the message is not getting through you have to say what you have to say publicly, even if your voice breaks and the opposition should not really praise what it being said as it exposes them for the duplicitous, hypocrites that they are.

The message that the Pineridge Member of Parliament delivered was simple and axiomatic but yet necessary; which was that the governing Free National Movement (FNM) will not succeed if it is perceived to be doing the very same things that the opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) did when it was the government, which actually got them thrown out of office and essentially this was forgetting their purpose of serving the people and thereby allowing power, arrogance and avarice to take hold of them.

“McAlpine chides FNM for House antics” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Pointing to House Speaker Halson Moultrie’s controversial speech in the House on February 7, Pineridge MP Fredrick McAlpine said yesterday that he was ‘frustrated’ and concerned that ‘honorable man and women’ in the House would ‘display such dishonorable conduct.’

During his speech, Moultrie attacked Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Leader Philip Brave Davis, former Chief Clerk of the House Maurice Tynes, and PLP Chairman Fred Mitchell.

McAlpine was one of six government MP’s to contribute to debate on a motion of no confidence in the Speaker tabled by Davis.  That motion was later amended by Bamboo Town MP Renward Wells and put forth as a motion of confidence in the speaker.

While he agreed with the opposition’s plight, McAlpine said he could not support the no confidence vote.”

There are several things that can be taken from McAlpine’s contribution; one being that the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) represents poor governance and is not an example to emulate, because to follow in their footsteps would be to your detriment and two; that persons within the party [PLP] who reference his comments as discord within the Free National Movement (FNM) government, seem willing to admit to their approval of the PLP as a government.

So now we have a desperate Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) party frantically attempting to get its message out and to be heard, so frantic that they do not seem to realize that the actual message given by the Pineridge member of parliament was/is not to be like the former government, who still has ‘key’ members in place who the country held responsible for bringing the country to its breaking point; surely you cannot or should not use these people to spread your ‘new’ message.

They, as the oldest political organization in the country, just do not seem to be too bright because even the ‘dumb’ among us would realize that as they launch the latest attack on the governing FNM, they are also attacking themselves.

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is within their nature.

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