It seems that the person originally delivering made no attempt give us our documents. My family had to go to the police station to collect but could not collect mine without my being present.

Labour knew many Nationalists wouldn’t be voting and only needed to stop a few more to win.

“Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?” replied the bull, “they’re packed with nutrients.”

The peacock pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.

Finally after a fourth night, the peacock was proudly perched at the top of the tree. He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.

Moral of the story:

Bullsh!t might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there

I am one of many maltese working abroad who travelled to Malta to vote. If the necessity to come back home to vote is truly due to refusal on Labour’s part to allow ballot boxes abroad – I can assure you the difference between the 2 parties lies in 751 voters who might not have travelled to a ballot box in a distant embassy but loved a free holiday back home.
The result could have been different, fortunately its not!

I am a bit perplexed that, throughout this commentary, you have resorted to equating Mr. Jason Micallef to a peacock.

The latter is a particularly noble and spectacular creature and has several other laudable characteristics.

Perhaps, given Mr. Micallef’s propensity to grimace / smile – a more suiting metaphor would have been a hyena – rather drab, generally perceived as nasty and with a perennial smirk on its face.

Actually – it was even closer than that.

All that was required for AS to clinch victory was to convince half of those “1,500 navel-gazers” plus one (751 votes)to vote MLP.

Securing 750 of those 1500 would have neutralised the PN advantage to zero and getting an additional one would have swayed the result in MLP’s favour.