Rebel UBP members admit last-minute legal proceedings will probably change very little apart from their conscience.Those responsible for the temporary court injunction, which has stalled the party’s planned merger, admit “it’s about principle and protocol.”Yesterday’s official launch of the One Bermuda Alliance was called off at the eleventh-hour and no new date has been set.But those UBP members being led by UBP leader Kim Swan and MP Charles Swan insist they are “all for change” and “moving forward.”They are hoping to win a public consultation period of at least 30 days to ask people’s views on the dissolving of the UBP. They expect the public to be all for the merger, but they say they “owe it to themselves” to stick to the rules.The party members are understood to have come up with the plan to apply for a temporary court injunction in just two days.Writs were served to UBP chairman and Senator Jeanne Atherden, UBP veteran John Barritt and deputy party leader Trevor Moniz yesterday morning. There are predicted to be some interesting scenes at the start of the new parliamentary session today.Politicians will sit under their respective UBP and BDA banners in the House of Assembly.Former UBP Senator Charlie Marshall said: “We can’t start something new by ending something in the wrong way. I believe in the rules.“Officers and executives were consulted, but not the branches and members.“We owe this to the founding members of the UBP and all those who worked very, very hard and sacrificed their time to make Bermuda what it is today.“To dissolve the party so quickly without any consultation would be a tragedy. It would be doing disrespect to ourselves.”UBP members came up with the idea to stall the merger after tempers flared at a Central Council meeting last week. It is understood that resolutions were put forward without the expected seven days notice.Executive members were also put on the spot and asked if constitutional responsibilities had been fulfilled. At one point an angry exchange is said to have resulted in the comment: “We’re the Central Council, we can do anything we want.”Attorney Graveney Bannister confirmed the court orders, signed by Commercial Court Puisine Judge Ian Kawaley, had been served but he had not received any response from the respondents.A court hearing will be the next step but UBP members want “little to happen” until leader Mr Swan returns to the Island. He is expected back at the weekend after an emergency trip overseas to attend his father-in-law’s funeral.UBP candidate Devrae Noel-Simmons said: “No one is against the merger, we just want the procedure to be done correctly.“We want to make sure that everyone is aware of what’s going on and we want everyone to have a clear understanding.“We want everyone in agreement, we are talking about a party with 47 years of history.“We have to be transparent so Government can’t come along and pull us apart.”Mr Marshall agreed change was the way forward for the UBP but admitted party members were disillusioned so there were “stormy clouds ahead.”He said: “At the end of the day after we’ve been through all this, the results will probably be exactly the same, but at least we’ll know we did it right.“We don’t disagree with change, we know we have to change, but we want it done right.“But it’s the people that need to change, not the name. We have been trying to get some people to step down but they refuse to budge.“We need to put Bermuda first. We aren’t interested in being the opposition, we are interested in being Government.”The legal papers served to the three UBP members yesterday were said to be “pretty flimsy” and there are concerns over whether they were legally served or simply delivered.Mr Moniz said the papers were left with his receptionist at 10am on the dot exactly 24 hours before the House of Assembly resumes.He said: “I have not been served with anything, but some papers have been delivered to me through a third party. I don’t accept that the papers have been properly served to me.“They have sat on these papers for two days, I wouldn’t call that much of an emergency injunction.”He added: “I have reviewed the papers and now they are in the hands of my Attorney.”Mr Barritt, who was to lead the party on an interim basis, said: “I have been served the papers and I have passed them to my Attorney for legal advice.”There is also controversy surrounding the names of those UBP supporters listed on the injunction.Oladeji Gabisi is listed as a UBP supporter while he insists he has no interest in politics having never even voted.He says he’s a friend of Charlie Swan who offered the UBP MP his support when he asked constituents for their input via a letter in The Royal Gazette.Mr Gabisi wrote to Mr Swan saying: “I am apolitical and I am not a constituent of Southampton West Central …. You campaigned and were elected under the UBP’s banner it is appropriate to seek input from those you are representing under the UBP’s banner.”Mr Gabisi told us yesterday: “I don’t know why my name is included, saying I’m UBP is incorrect, I just don’t like it and want to set the record straight.“I’m apolitical, I’m not at all interested in politics, I’m not a man of any political party. I’ve lived in three countries and have never voted once.”The media was told the OBA would be launched yesterday afternoon at the Vasca De Gama Club. But the 12.30pm launch was cancelled at the last-minute due to “unforeseen circumstances.”BDA Chairman Michael Fahy said the party’s launch was on hold because of legal proceedings.He said: “As far as I’m concerned it’s an internal UBP issue. The BDA is ready to make the move. We are just waiting for the UBP to see the light.“The OBA will be launched in the foreseeable future. Nothing has changed. We are just trying to make it official.”UBP Senate leader Jeanne Atherdon did not respond to our requests for comment yesterday.