A little strategic skirmish perhaps?
Former United Bermuda Party MP Mark Pettingill says his old colleagues should keep their noses out of Bermuda's foreign policy -- like they told Premier Ewart Brown to do.
Meta message: "We're not the UBP."
Expect more of these. I'd anticipate more disagreements with the UBP than with the PLP in the near time.
Wayne Furbert did the same thing when he left the UBP. His first vote in Parliament as an Independent was with the Premier to be the deciding vote in the truck licensing vote.
Was it on the issue or to establish his independence? I'd go with the latter.