I’m not a die-hard Nationalist. I just don’t want Ronald McDonald as my prime minister. I would prefer George Abela, for argument’s sake.

Alan, Barack Obama is a responsible person who fulfills his obligations and duties. He had a hot dog in his spare time, whereas Joseph Muscat blamed his passion for Big Macs and his family for not doing his duty. It’s funny how you compare Joseph Muscat to Barack Obama, because Obama is a self-made man who licked nobody’s arse to get to the top (wheras Muscat licked to the point he was nicknamed Poodle)

I meant like Berlusconi in the sense that he is incredibly unstatesmanlike in his words and behaviour. It jars with the European idea of proper behaviour by a politician.

Berlusconi isn’t young. Joseph Muscat is half his age, but he isn’t young, either. So what did you mean, exactly?

So it does not surprise me that Labour never learns. Any criticism is met by the standard reply: “Of course you say so, you’re Nationalist.” Case in point being the whole debate about Gensna on this blog. And we were debating a musical, not an electoral programme. So there you go. Since Muscat became leader of the opposition he hasn’t accepted one smidgen of criticism, hasn’t changed anything that was suggested from outside his party, and has adopted a cavalier attitude towards his critics which may even surpass that of Alfred Sant. On top of that, he’s young and unbelievably unstatesmanlike. Possibly the only European politician who comes close to that is Berlusconi.

[Daphne – Go on BondiPlus to say that he stayed home to listen to a Killers CD.]

You are speaking about a person who potentially could be your next prime minister and you have no qualms about this because you are short-sighted. Let’s imagine Dr. Muscat is now PM and six days before he is going for a nice holiday with the wife and kids something major happens in Malta which requires him being here. Will he leave again? Are you convinced he will not? I think you need to look at the hamburger/dinner incident in this light and the comments and sarcasm in this blog too.

I also cannot agree with the statement that the young generation is in some way repelling politics. This is not only a generalisation but has no factual evidence. It is very normal that the younger generation is less interested in politics but that does not mean we all are. In the latest election it was the young vote which most probably swayed the result and that should mean something. What is bothering most young people is the way in which certain people cannot rise above petty partisan politics and discuss maturely and do what is best for the country.

What the young generation cannot tolerate is people who take them for a ride, first telling them the EU is evil personified, then being elected MEP and getting a nice big salary for doing so and then returning to Malta like Moses from the mountain telling us that with hindsight he might have been wrong about the EU. The MLP or PL has not yet learned its lessons. The PN even in government learns its lessons (I’m not licking but it’s true) and time and again has shown it knows what the people want and can adjust to give them what they want and need within the limits of the country.

Take the last election. When the campaign started Labour was clearly ahead but they ruined everything because they do not know what Malta wants and as the Maltese say ‘ikejlu b’xibirhom’ thinking that all Malta has the same mentality as the Labour diehards, luckily not!

If Labour want to become Malta’s next government to serve us (not just to be in government) then they need to do the following: a) either get a seasoned, moderate leader or at least get Dr Muscat to act like one; b) get rid of the militant, Mintoffian factions; c) make a clear break with the past and stop trying to glorify it (a comment which really bugged me recently was one by Dr Muscat in parliament, I think, when he said that that Dr Fenech Adami had, like the presidents who preceded him, continued to enhance the role of the presidency – so Eddie did what Agatha did?); d) start thinking like a government-in-waiting rather than an opportunist wanting to gain a couple of votes, and e) start working on their electoral manifesto from now so that when election time comes – as it inevitably will – they will be prepared and not make a fiasco like last time round with the reception class idea. Recently I was following a parliamentary debate and the Hon. Carmelo Abela said that reception class idea was a great idea but which was rubbished by PN for political reasons. Even here it is clear Labour learned absolutely nothing. The reception class idea was a bad idea, it was not thought of properly and even when they tried to explain it they were not getting any support. But it’s not their idea that was crap but that the PN rubbished it.

I will take a page out of the Opposition’s book and suggest that two euro thirty three cents should be deducted from his salary for “juvenile” behaviour not consonant with his office.

[Daphne – Yes, it was on BondiPlus. Because the young panel who were with him on the show were speaking properly and arguing intelligently, he found it odd. Apparently, to be properly young you have to say ‘man’ and lather your hair into gelled shapes like that cartoon dork on STR82DPoint.]

Daphne, please check this out.

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[Daphne – “I am 5′ 4”. Yes, right – though I might have been wearing six-inch heels back in 1997 when he was a friend’s house-guest. But I’d say even your 64 inches is pushing it. Thanks for this. It’s nice to know he’s been trying to find a shag on the internet for the last 12 years.]