His company has not filed any finacial statments with the MFSA from 1991. This means that the penalties that he will have to pay will most probably also run in five digit figures. He’d better start putting his house in order before preaching.

There is no alternative to PN

You say both parties are guilty of mud slinging. I’ll have to correct you on that one. All Sant and his deputies have given the electorate during this campaign is one message : Korruzzjoni ,Korruzzjoni,Korruzzjoni!!! Slinging mud at all and sundry. Have you heard Gonzi slinging mud at anyone? Gonzi gives out a positive message that together we can make it. Yes he criticises Sant on his past performance and his ‘new’proposals as any decent politician is obliged to do.

All Labour can do is be negative and harp on about stagnar, gholi tal-hajja, korruzzjoni etc.

Stagnar??? You have got to be kidding.
Gholi tal-hajja. Do you really believe Sant can ever control prices. How will he manage that ? Tell foreign manufacturers to give Malta a special discount? For example lets say Gillette decide to raise the price of all their products by 10%. How will Sant prevent the prices of Gillette in Malta by going up by 10 %??? Impose a price freeze, subsidise the increase, or maybe go back to the Bulk buying sytem. One brand one price no choice?

Jonathan, corruption is something that will always be present, as man is prone to corruption. So far despite Sant’s allegations no Minister has been found guilty of corruption even during those famous 22 months in office.To say that Gonzi stands still while corruption flourishes is a blatant lie. All cases of alleged corruption were referred to the relevant authorities and action taken when guilt was established: ADT, Malta Maritime etc.

I don’t know how old you are but I am of the age where I remember the cronies of Labour ministers taking money in exchange for all sorts of things ranging from a colour TV (Grundig only) to an import licence to a Job to a buiding permit.

I remember the good old days where the police were there to strike fear into people of different political beliefs

I remember Toto, Fusellu, Qahbu Qattus Pupa etc who ran amock, doing what they wanted without fear of arrest.

Where was the Crusader against corruption then???

Do you know that members of Labour who were already active in those corrupt times are still active now. None of them ever protested against the heavy armed tactics of the Socialist regime and the police. Why does Sant keep them on ?????

No Jonathan, I hardly think that both parties are the same.

why do nazzjonalisti appear shocked when MLP uncovers these corruption cases. not in a ‘x gharukaza ministru korott way’, but rather, unbelievably, in a “x wicc tost ghadnu il-Lbaour li kixef ministru korrot. hallieh miskin ikun korrott!” . the temerity of it all.

and again, amazingly, the question has been evaded. Did Gonzi lie? simple question. yes, or no. this has nothing 2 do with party loyalties…it’s black on white and Pn should have the balls to say it. don’t mock Dr Sant (yes he has a DR too) for not admitting he made a mistake re Europe until Dr Gonzipn admits Jeffrey Pullicino Orland lied too.

whatever, neither party is the personification of evil. neither party is perfection either. my point is to ppl from both sides to realise that.

and how come any nationalists i meet don’t even deny the corruption charges…they just say, oh well, yes PN are very corrupt, but they gave us Europe, the Euro, and Mater Dejn (sorry Dei) ? so r we sayign corruption is justified? a small price to pay for a good government? all politicians are corrupt so just accept it??

I actually like Dr Gonzi. I do. he seems genuine and understanding and politically flexible and a good leader of a nation. much better than fenech adami. This is why i’m sorry for him that he has a cabinet of corrupt ministers ax mux tort tieghu.

now answer my post with a totally irrelavant topic is-soltu. evasion not confrontation.

[Moderator – Jonathan, you are comparing the issue of European Union membership to a disco.]

Sant won 96 on bad promises and accusations of corruption yet in his thankfully short legislature what did he do about it— ZILCH, NADA, RIEN, NIENTE, XEJN!?

And as regards respect to a prime minister in waiting you have got to be kidding. How do you how respect to a man who mocks the actual Prime Minister. Remember Birzebugia… DR Goooooooonzi etc.

George Vella was out of line but justified in my opinion. Yes students should be free to voice their opinions but you should show a potential prime minister in waiting some respect. You do not boo him for mentioning cancer.

And speaking of unanswered questions: did Gonzi reply to the proof that Jeffrey Pullicino Orland blatantly lied? crocodile tears anyone?

this is what is wrong with maltese politics…double standards.

Jesus also said : You see the mote which is in your brother’s eye; but you do not see the beam which is in your own eye.

Have you forgotten Charles Mangion stating ” that Nationalist’s have something wrong with their DNA.

And good old George Vella calling University Students and even their parents Hamalli , psataz etc simply because they showed their disapproval at a man who never answers a question and never admits a mistake!!

The same man who lied his way into power in 96 and the man who would have kept us out of the EU? The man with NO REGRETS!!

Get real

first of all i’d like to say that i usually enjoy your columns…you write with a strong pen, and you write what you feel no matter what anyone else thinks.

But could you please explain to me why you, and other PN-afficionados (yes you are one too) insist on portraying Labourites (or Socialists) as ill-educated, ‘hammali’, savage, barbaric cavemen. As a former University student, i was appalled at the freedom of expression vacuum. Apparently it was ‘cool’ to be a PN supporter. A huge number MLP-leaning students did not beat their chests and publicly pledge their allegiance to MLP. Ax ninkixfu, ax jahsbuna hammalli, ax ituna stigma. Why? are we not all Maltese born on the same rock? Differing opinions are vital to a democratic society. Some people seem to think that because communism was an off-shoot of socialism, then MLP = Communism. The same people would do well to remember that former (far)-right (alumni include the Nazis…anyone remember them?

Do we have to keep mentioning the 60s, 70s,80s and 90s? If we must then, to quote (a rarity for me) a certain man by the name of Jesus: he who hath no sin cast the first stone…can we stop this BS please. those were different times under different circumstances.

On a final note; Daphne, my mother is a nazzjonalista, as is her entire family (my cousins,uncles and grandparents). My father (who was born and raised in Sliema, and won a scholarship to study in London as a youth, not that this should matter, but apparently it does) is a ‘Socjalist’. Does that mean my father is a barbaric caveman?

Forza Malta (oops sorry i used a maltese word…am i a hamallu too now?)

[Moderator – Would you like some chips with that shoulder?]

You need to stop reading l-orizzont!! All interested parties have said that the reception class issue is a non starter and damaging to our children.

I guess even Brother Martin of De La Salle said they need to discuss further eh??? I guess that what we saw on TV , ie Brother Martin denying Alfred Sant’s allegations that De la Salle have a reception class in force, is one of the famous ‘Montaturi’ that the Labour Leader labels anything not to his liking!!!

Get real my friend.