The Progressive Labour Party Government has lost its ?labour roots? and is ?...out-UBP-ing the UBP? in its dispute over the Berkeley construction site with Pro-Active Management Systems and the Bermuda Industrial Union, Pro-Active advisor Julian Hall has claimed.

In a hard-hitting interview in today?s magazine the former PLP MP also criticises both current Premier Alex Scott and his predecessor, Dame Jennifer Smith, for emphasising ?style over substance?.

An advisor to the rebel group that toppled Dame Jennifer from the Premiership in the days after the 2003 General Election, he said: ?I don?t think she ever had the depth, really, to be Premier of Bermuda.?

Noting that she had accepted a Damehood, he said: ?I hear she doesn?t even realise how unashamedly imperialistic she was and how dismissive she was of people who were willing to give her nothing but assistance when she and those around her really needed it.?

However, he is also deeply critical of her successor, calling Alex Scott?s leadership ?? nothing more than a continuation of the nothingness that represented Jennifer Smith?s administration?.

The PLP?s dispute with Pro-Active is the issue about which Mr. Hall has the most to say, pointing out the effect Government?s decision to fire the construction company had on its employees and their families, and observing that it has resulted in a ?pitched battle between the only two arms of the labour movement?.

He reflected that it was the third time that he has been involved in preventing the Union from falling into bankruptcy, and that the first two times were under the UBP.

?This Government is out UBP-ing the UBP and the result will be disaster,? he said.

The profile of Mr. Hall, which is written by senior report Matthew Taylor, describes his childhood and the dramatic ups and downs of his political and legal careers which saw him most recently being cleared of fraud charges in a Supreme Court trial in which he represented himself.

The Cup Match issue of also features some of Bermuda?s best sportsmen in a full-colour photographic spread, and includes stories about the need for Bermuda?s best athletes to train and compete outside the Island in order to achieve their full potential.

This issue also reports on the health of life on the Island?s reefs and the sport of deep-sea fishing. is free in today?s