Good riddance. I cant see why he is complaining. Majority rules. If as he says he has the support of his executive team,let them run again and see what happens.

This man is an idiot who is pissed off because he screwed up his chance to be on the "gravy train". He is also a liability to any political party that entertains him because the Bible clearly states that " a man cannot serve God and man at the same time" therefore he is obviously confused because he is out of his element on both fronts !!!

Ya time as an FNM MP is winding down McAlpine. They dont like your stance on many positions.. They want puppets who they can control. Continue to shock them on every position and prepare to run as an independent candidate next election.

McAlpine is hardly a principled man. He is more of a grand-stander than a doer. There is nothing wrong with an occasional disagreement with your party,but he has taken an antagonistic approach which does not serve him nor his constituents well. Why did he accept the nomination knowing what the party's platform was and disagreeing with most of it.

Totally agree.

agreed @realfreethinker. McAlpine is a grave disappointment. A fool with selfish ambition!

You are so right.

There was nothing wrong with the fact that he accepted the FNM nomination, this is true irrespective of the Party's platform. That is exactly what is meant by politics. It calls for associating with a collective body of people and different views that may very well not be all that you, of yourself, would have chosen otherwise. But this is always necessary to unite the forces of the polite (people) to achieve common goals.

Rev. McAlpine has gained a footing in our Parliament where he can now make a truly significant difference - indeed a positive change as such is needed. - and this is the case irrespective of how he got there. He has three (3) years in which to do this.

And yes, he has chosen not to be politically correct in blindly following and aligning with what the party and its leader are doing knowing it is contrary to right principle. That is what we need: a truly independent political outlook. This would have been the mantra that LBT would have carried had she been elected to the House for Long Island.

As it now stands, insight (intelligence) necessary for foresight (vision for the future) is absent in the present Parliament.

Hopefully Rev. McAlpine would move out of the shadows of both the PLP and FNM and shine forth so that both his constituents and the greater Bahamas can see and grasp his perspectives - being unhinged and unhindered by the restrained social class agendas of both the FNM and PLP.

We all could use a bit of fresh air; indeed, a sincere and true independent voice for the people.

Again you have missed the point. If he was such an independent voice why didn't he run as an independent. You can't expect to be elected on a party platform and act as an independent. I would accept your argument that we need independent voices in parliament, but that is highly unlikely when all of the members are elected through party affiliations.

It would seem that you and I are much on the same page except for method employed by Rev. McAlpine, that is, of getting into Parliament.

That being said, HE IS IN! Don't be like those Democrats in the U.S.A.
Get over it! Rev Frederick McAlpine is a Honourable Member of Parliament.

My friend of mutual understanding, 'if a donkey is in the desert what do you do?'.

Who gives a shit about whether the animal of carriage is a creature of pedigree or not? Do you insist on riding on a stallion horse? Well you wait for your Rolls Royce or Bently, I am going the first thing smoking. A volkswagon will do just as fine for me to get to town.

Whether it is a horse, elephant or donkey, or for that fact, a zebra, if the beast is capable of carrying you to where you want to go, or getting you closer to your destination, to hell with discrimination as to how it got there in the first place (Parliament). Just get on and ride it to where you would want it to go.

Rev. Frederick McAlpine is capable of now becoming an independent voice for us. Let's encourage him to.

Godson. I accept your analogy about catching whatever ride to get out of the desert. But if you catch the donkey and get out but refuse to feed the donkey when it is hungry. How would you expect the donkey to act once you ask it to now taking around town to get some things done?

This guy wasn't hugged by his mother when he was younger and it shows!

Yes, no the Pineridge's red shirts MP comrade Frederick, has become lone outspoken opposition voice for 'FREE porters" and its outlying constituents........ being the four-seated PLP House MP's. the Queen's official opposition, have all but vacated their roles, yes, no?

Yes but his message could be more clearer and effective to us outlying constituents if only he didn't have the affiliation noise of the FNM lingering in the background.

As to the Queen's official opposition: they are so busy smooching down to the Bahamian public to realized they are not the alternative to inept and incompetent governance. They are seen as a disease of the past that any sensible and good thinking person would do best to avoid.

In fact, we are hoping for a vaccine against it, the PLP.

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Rev. McAlpine is definitely an opportunist who used the FNM coattails to ride to victory. Such a man cannot be trusted.

So who killed Sir Harry Oakes

We will never really know!

How many years later and we still don’t know ‘Who killed Sir Harry Oakes’. Justice was fingered

I wish Bahamians would learn our system of government and a few things about party politics. If the leader doesn't want you, you're out. There is a way to voice your dissent and it's not in the media.It's more entertaining and intoxicating to swim against the tide. He questions efforts the Minnis administration makes to revive the economy before it even pans out. Things the PLP is less vocal on. Things that make you go hmmm...

So long "bye bye"

At least the Pineridge constituency HAD an elected party branch executive council ........... many do not have any ............ The generals are the "council" for many MPs.

These (Nassau) central executive officers who so-called "run" the party, are simply henchmen for the (PLP/FNM) Cabinet MPs ......... there is NO democracy in either of the major parties .............. What a shame and a disgrace.

Wonder where the FNM Long Island Branch Council that was in place when LBT was MP is now???? .................. No public elections were held ........... I suppose the "coup" has already taken place there.

Wonder what Gippy gonna say????