“Davis: PLP would welcome McAlpine” – The Nassau Guardian
Excerpt from this article; “Following Pineridge MP Fredrick McAlpine’s scathing criticism of the government last week, Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) leader Philip Brave Davis yesterday hinted that his party would welcome him should he choose to leave the Free National Movement (FNM).
‘I don’t want to at this time comment on any views as to whether he should leave his party and join me or otherwise,’ Davis told The Guardian.
‘What I do know..politics is about numbers and every time we can add one, it means the other doesn’t get that one.’
During his contribution to the budget on Thursday, McAlpine said that the government claimed ‘it’s the people’s time’ but ‘only for a select few, a resurrected oligarchy, special interest and elitist with foreign interests.”

What I really feel is important for the Pine Ridge member of parliament at this time to decide is what is it that he really wants and exactly how he seeks to achieve it. He suggests that his motives are purely altruistic in nature and are driven by a genuine need/desire to help the people of The Bahamas at large but he does not really say how this should be achieved. It would seem that his only action to date has been to criticize the present government over its actions as they do what they feel what is best and/or necessary to achieve the goal of trying to help the people of The Bahamas; it’s first action being to strengthen the economy of the country – the foundation to growth.
Yes, he was voted in with a Free national Movement (FNM) party that was elected to do ‘something’ but now seems to stand with those that sing the chorus of “oh, not that/this!!!”
Another question which Mr. McAlpine should ask himself is, will the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) as an organization and as a government, look out for the best interest of the country at large especially given their track record.
He should also bear in mind that as he wishes to hold the Free National Movement’s (FNM’s) government accountable for its campaign promises, he will also be expected to do so for the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) if they were ever to become the government and as he is courted by their leader; the Hon. Philip ‘Brave’ Davis.
In the end, he must essentially figure out if he is ‘this’ or ‘that’ – ‘that’ being resistant to change and which is not ‘this’.
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