Political activist Khalid Wasi yesterday called for all Opposition MPs to quit their own parties and join the Progressive Labour Party.Mr Wasi said that would allow Bermuda to “start a new game” after the PLP effectively sealed checkmate by ensuring it can never be beaten under the current political system.The former All Bermuda Congress leader said recent comments from the United Bermuda Party indicate the best it can do is keep the governing party on its toes for the next 25 years.“I was once an avid chess player and whenever the game reached the same dynamics as exist in our local party political rivalry, we termed it checkmate,” Mr Wasi told The Royal Gazette.“It was never necessary to kill or capture the king. All we needed to do was to show that his defeat was inescapable. The loser turns his own king over as the end of the game and the next game begins.“Prominent members of the UBP are now saying, along with many supporters, statements like, ‘We need to be a strong Opposition’. How unfortunate, the new dream and justification for existing is now relegated to being a effective Opposition.“We don’t need an effective Opposition, we need effective political dialogue in a Parliament that serves Bermuda and all of its people, including its visitors and trade partners, justly with intelligence and integrity.“In order to achieve any of this from our Parliamentarians they need to be on an equal playing field within the Parliament.“Both the UBP members and the BDA, along with the remaining Independent [Darius Tucker], should drop their flag and join the PLP. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. Once you join, a new game will begin. In such case I can think of an abundance of items that will ultimately flow as a consequence, all of them good for the democratising of our Country. The fusion of all the parties will divide but along ideological lines and not racial.”Mr Wasi has long called for drastic action to break the PLP’s stranglehold, with senior UBP figures acknowledging voting patterns gave the PLP 18 safe seats at the last general election.The former UBP member tried unsuccessfully to gather support for his own party the ABC, which folded without fielding any candidates, while he ran as an Independent at the 2008 Southampton West Central by-election, but collected just 24 votes. He spoke out again yesterday, after UBP leader Kim Swan and deputy Trevor Moniz declared the importance of being a strong Opposition following the split which formed the Bermuda Democratic Alliance.The PLP increased its margin of victory in last month’s Warwick South Central by-election to more than 50 percentage points as the UBP and BDA divided the Opposition vote.Mr Wasi said: “The aim of the Progressive Labour Party was to bring Government to the people. Now that it has the role of Government, it can create the kind of democracy with people’s rights that are befitting of the long hard struggle in this Country to have all its people enjoy what it means to be a free human in a free open and democratic society.“Maintaining a situation that has divided and polarised the Country only continues to foster the inability to utilise the best of our talents where needed.“Our Country is too small and our human resource bank is scant in the best of circumstance. We cannot make it through global competition and survive with our current political malaise. It will continue to destroy us if we don’t change.“Cross the floor: make it one party but empower the Parliamentarians and the electorate with democratic tools.”