The UBP had a very small social conscience, say 90/10. I belive the OBA is a little better about 85/15

While the PLP is more blanced..they want businesses to do well but not to the detriment of the people. .

What I call the Wall-Mart effect.

Where a Fortune 500 company has upwards off 90% of their staff requiring some form of social assistance…

Someone always pays for the other half of the loaf…low wage earners, make up their wages with Financial Assistance.

Bingo!!!!!! Nailed it in one.

But what they heck our gutless Government(s) will just increase taxes etc rather than deal with that chestnut.

So Unions being formed in 1700′s in Manchester have nothing to do with Slavery.

Perhaps you should do some genuine research into the subject and not spin it to suit an agenda.

We can agree that Blacks vote for the OBA. In fact, it would be statistically impossible for the OBA to be in power without a portion of the Black vote. However, it should be recognized that Whites (historically and presently) do not vote for any party other than the OBA (and its predecessor the UBP).

There are far less White PLP voters than there are Black OBA ones. One conclusion that can be drawn from this is that the only true swing voters (i.e. the only voter who vote on ideology and not just race) are Black Bermudians.

So far, I haven’t seen anything that demonstrates the Mr. Hayward understands the role a union should play in democracy, such that I am far from being impressed by him simply spouting off political ideologies 101 in an attempt to sound like he understands how a government works. It is also interesting to here him promote the social democracy tenet of higher taxation, when he has been so vocal about anytime the government has raised taxation.

As for Mr. Bean’s latest dissertation on politics, well, it has long been established pure ideology never works in policy or practice for any government. This is why the PLP failed so much to create a sustainable government for Bermuda and Bermudians, and why Mr. Bean’s ideology would fail as well. It can’t even survive his own practice as a politician in the House and media; much less the central ideology of his own party, which is fact less of a single ideology and more of a divisive alliance between the more extreme left and right ideologies as they pursue political power together, rather than apart.

“Through my own personal lens, party politics in Bermuda has primarily been centred on race with the majority of residents voting seemingly along racial lines rather than on a party’s political ideology.”

Now go drink some herb tea and think about it before you knock at my door with promises of a better Bermuda.

Opportunism and abuse of position.

Did you know that the father of trade unionism was vehemently against public sector unions as he claimed (and rightly so) they are an affront to democracy?

Check it out for yourselves.