PLP supporter Julian Hall last night hit back at a veiled threat from his party leadership as he pledged to lead a revolt to haul it back to its ideological roots.

This week he has labelled some Cabinet members incompetent, attacked his party for failing to get a deal on Morgan?s Point and advised young people to move abroad because of lack of opportunities at home.

He also spoke encouragingly about ideas surrounding the attempt to create a third political force although he stressed he had remained true to the PLP.

The outspoken comments echoed criticism Mr. Hall made in the summer about the imperialistic leaderships style of former leader Jennifer Smith, the ?nothingness? of Alex Scott?s leadership and the way a race-based, two party system was failing Bermuda.

Yesterday the PLP hit back with a statement saying it had offered Mr. Hall a home when he no longer felt welcome in the UBP.

The release, from PLP spokesman Scott Simmons, said: ?It is the PLP then and now, that has tirelessly worked for Bermuda to be an unfettered democracy with the right to freedom of expression and association.

?It is both the PLP Government and the country that enables Mr. Hall and others flirt publicly with yet another third political entity with no reprisal to be faced.?

Those words sparked Mr. Hall to say: ?I think Alex Scott said language is the fine print of emotion, I find this use of the word reprisal somewhat Orwellian and threatening in a veiled kind of way.

?We are becoming what we hated and the oppressed has increasingly become the oppressor. The current leadership is increasingly authoritarian and anti-democratic, secretive and paranoid.

?This is not about flirting with a third party, it is sending the PLP a life-raft for God?s sake. I am not the only one thinking this, I am just one of the few expressing this.

?I did not join the PLP because I didn?t feel welcome in the UBP. I joined the PLP because I was and am ideologically committed to the aims of the Labour Movement.

?I don?t think that that is the case with the current PLP hierarchy. They appear to be spending far too much time pimping the black vote and taking workers and workers? rights for granted.

?The current PLP hierarchy know me full way and they know I will take on all comers fighting for what I believe in.

?They will also know I will have thought long and hard before making a public stand on these kinds of issues.?

He denied flirting with any third political force and said he remained a member of the PLP concerned it had been hijacked and he had every right to voice what he and others were thinking.

?I have found it very frustrating over the years to deal with that intolerant and elitist clique inside of Alaska Hall.?

He said he had spoken out about the need to look at the way Bermuda was Governed and he said both political parties were prisoners of the past.

Mr. Hall said he was trying to ?foment a grass roots revolution inside the labour movement, beginning with the trade unions, to take over the PLP and bring them ideologically back home because the PLP is decreasingly progressive.

?It?s decreasingly labour, now it?s just a party in both senses of the word.?