There’s a delightful saying: your next choice is more powerful than your last mistake—provided, of course, you actually learned something. Unfortunately, the New Day Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) seems to have missed the memo. Instead of learning, they marched right back into the same old trap: ignoring the very voices they claim to champion—THE PEOPLE.

The recent Labour Day parade in New Providence drew thousands of workers and union members—a genuine show of solidarity. But wait, here comes the PLP, not nationally colors of unity, but with party shirts adorned with Brave Davis name and battle cries of “We are ready for war.” Yes, war—the political kind, naturally, led front and center by Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis and Deputy PM Chester Cooper, turning a day meant for workers’ rights into a campaign rally.

Meanwhile, the Free National Movement (FNM) took the more respectful route, donning national colors instead of party paraphernalia, heeding labor leaders and the family of Sir Randol Fawkes—the very pioneer of Labour Day in The Bahamas. A subtle, but telling difference: one side respects history and the workers; the other treats the day like a billboard for their upcoming election.

Mr. Davis, who can only described as being politically tone deaf at this point, defended this theatrical display with a proud “I make no apology” for marching alongside workers. A noble sentiment, if only the problem wasn’t the marching with party banners and political slogans rather than simply marching with the workers with banners actually highlighting the workers themselves or the person that actually established the day.

Picture this: a child throwing stones at a plate glass window, breaking it, then insisting he never knew the stone would cause damage. That’s the PLP’s approach to Labour Day politics. The glass shattered not because they marched with workers, but because they hijacked the event to serve their own political ambitions.

The unions explicitly asked for a day focused on workers—not on “Brave Wave” and political grandstanding. But apparently, nothing says “unity” quite like politicizing the memory of Sir Randol Fawkes and turning the event into a pre-election pep rally.

So the people asked, politely, to keep politics out of it. And the PLP? They said, “No apology,” effectively telling the PEOPLE that their voices are just background noise to the party’s script.

Trust, it seems, is in short supply these days. After years of sidelining public concerns, the PLP’s response is to double down on the theatrics and political posturing—because failing to learn from mistakes is apparently their nature.

In short if politics were a sport, the PLP just scored a goal on Labour Day.

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