[Moderator – Will the cappuccino come with a biscuit? We need to know if we are to have no regrets about ordering it. Anyway, history is for the historians and cappuccinos are for Adrian Mole. M, the point is that only in Lilliput is an election hinged on the gift of a cappuccino, and only in the mind of madmen is oil subsided up to infinity, taking inflation with it.]

Mintoff was the master magician – taking your money from behind your back (tax) and giving a little back to you in your face (Childrens’ Allowance). AS’s surcharge ploy was no different; thing is he would have collected a lot more – from YOU – than he would return to you! By definition you are gullible and fall within Lino Spiteri’s definition of a ‘bahnan’ – to quote “Anke bahnan kien jaf li ma tistax tahdem (halving the surcharge)”.

You are prepared to sell your children’s future for €100! You would have voted against EU membership – believing the great intellectual (!) – AS – for he does not believe in the EU and cynically tried to impose his belief on the whole nation. He would probably have soured relations with the EU – just to make his point! Unless you are totally myopic you would concede that EU membership and latterly Eurozone membership are critical to increasing our standard of living and quality of life. Regaining four public holidays and €100 pales in comparison.

There was a time when I could not afford pastizzi and cappuccino at the Ferries because I was out of work – between 1997 and 1998; a period that will go down in history as one of the bleakest economic periods.

At least you get to buy the book. I lost my opportunity to go to University thanks to the MLP. Thankfully your kids still have that opportunity and you know what? I am really proud that my vote will go some way to affording your children the same opportunities as my children have.

I don’t know who you are or what you do for a living, but for your employer’s sake I hope you’re not the organisation’s finance manager.

To paraphrase the infamous words of one Dr Alfred Sant “dawn il-mizuri kemm kienu ser jiswew u min fejn kien ser igib il-flus”?
It’s alright for sanctimonious Sant to have promised those things to the gullible. He wasn’t going to pay for them himself, was he? He misled you dreadfully there, didn’t he? And aren’t you lucky you’ve been saved the nasty shock of having him bumbling along as PM, ‘growing’ the economy by magic tricks and generally messing around with people’s lives – mine AND yours.

Mod, enjoy your camping. At the rate were going, it might be your last.

Grow up.

Well, then, you spent the grand total of EUR3.30 on VAT. You could have got a nice capuccino and a couple of pastizzi down at the Sliema Ferries for that amount of money.

Go on – work out the VAT on education related (not education) purchases for a whole year – 3 kids and all. I doubt we are talking more than €50 maybe €100. If peace of mind, growing economy, jobs and integrity as a nation are worth less than €100 to you then you probably voted Labour.

Just as the sercarj was so flawed as a concept so too was the “VAT on education” – meant only to help AS retain credibility – amongst Labourites!

As Lino Spiteri declared the sercarj was unworkable – even a bahnan could see that! Now decide who are more credible – AS and his non-thinking followers or LS and the half of the nation that voted in yet another PN Govt.

Wake up – unless you do, you are doomed to stay in opposition for a long long time. The discussion happening right now in relation to the lijderxipp is sad in that it is about the micro issues, the personalities and the power factions. As Nationalists we see it as a no-brainer in terms of who the next MLP lijder should be but the MLP seem intent on retaining the status quo – good luck to you but don’t be surprised next time you lose an election!!