As support for the PLP Government falls, it is casting about for ideas and initiatives to stabilise the situation and attract voters back to the fold.In the world of politics, this is a desperate situation trying to reverse a downward spiral.What is remarkable to me and my colleagues is how much the Premier and her colleagues are leaning on us to help them get right with the voters. In recent weeks, they have begun dropping long-held policies in favour of our words and ideas, our platforms and programmes; basically telling voters they finally get it.The objective is to refresh the image of the Government and to reinvigorate its Ministers while hoping no one will notice just how reliant they’ve become on us for ideas. Well, we’ve certainly noticed. Here’s some of what we’ve seen and heard.Tourism Minister Patrice Minors has been talking about Bermuda needing “more red carpet, less red tape”. We agree. Indeed, the phrase “more red carpet, less red tape” is the centrepiece of my colleague Bob Richards’ plan to reform the economy over the long-term, making it more welcoming and more user-friendly for job creators and everyday people.On Wednesday last week, Senator David Burt announced the Government’s plan to move ahead with a “procurement office” to manage the disbursement of Government contracts hopefully bringing to an end a period when major Government contracts were not tendered and seemed to end up in the hands of people described as cronies and running millions of dollars over budget.Of course, the procurement office is a rip-off of a long-standing proposal by Mr Richards for a Contractor General, whose purpose would be, as he has said, to “oversee the tendering process and monitor all capital projects to ensure that rules and guidelines are strictly enforced, and to identify unfair practices or offensive conduct that takes place in government-sponsored projects”.The Premier’s Procurement Office proposal does not go as far as we would go. She reportedly wants to keep it under her Ministry of Finance (and thus control) while we believe it should have a more independent orientation, perhaps under the auspices of the Auditor General.The Premier on Friday picked up from Senator Burt to hit the “good governance” road, long the concern of my colleague and OBA leader John Barritt. Mr Barritt has been The Voice for changing the way we do business in Bermuda, from measures to ensure the integrity and transparency of government operations to new co-operative arrangements in Parliament to get MPs and Senators working together better to put, as we like to say, “Bermuda first”.On Friday, the Premier introduced “Measures to Enhance Good Governance” which are meant to deal with corrupt practices at the highest level of government. It sounded like the penny had finally dropped when she said: “On the domestic front, there are some issues that still need to be addressed, and this Government’s credibility with the people of Bermuda, is just as important as our credibility overseas ... I want Mr and Mrs Bermuda to be assured that any hint of inappropriate behaviour or wrongdoing found will be addressed swiftly, and without hesitation”.That sounded great to us, because everyone for too many years including two successive Auditors General has had questions, concerns and doubts about what goes on behind the closed doors of government.Premier Cox’s moves last Friday to co-opt Opposition policies continued with two other announcements. The first, which was called “Incentive for Job Makers”, implied the Government’s intention to loosen long-standing PLP policies on work permits and Permanent Resident Certificates. The second recognised a need to reverse land licence restrictions. Both these initiatives are in line with long-standing proposals that I and my colleagues have pushed.We support the thrust of the proposals coming from Government, while recognising that there’s a big difference between making grand statements and translating them to action. This is especially challenging when the changes and reversals are being made not from a genuine spirit of reform and progress but because of political expediency.What we are seeing is a government scrambling to fix situations after serious damage has been done, not just to Bermuda’s reputation as an international business centre but also to the economy as it affects the income and job prospects for everyday Bermudians. We say: Sure, go ahead, take our ideas, because we want Bermuda to succeed.The test for Ms Cox is whether she can actually follow through with these changes. It will be hard to pull off if her motivation is poll-driven not Bermuda first-driven.Trevor Moniz is a One Bermuda Alliance MP and Shadow Minister for Justice and Attorney General