Allow me to state the following : 1. I was never fired from the PN. 2. Everybody knows my political opinion, so why the question? 3. Who is to judge my political opinion. 4. I was, am and will continue to be a journalist, with a free mind. 5. If I write a report about a speech, please don’t judge or be patronising. 6. I refuse to be conditioned by either party. 7. Once out of the PN media machine, kindly allow me to guard jealously my free mind and freedom of expression. 8. I am Maltese and European, my political orientation becomes irrelevant. 9. Just let journalists work freely, and stop this nonsense of asking hypothetical and irrelevant questions about my political orientation. 10. Never was and will be a mercenary, as many in this country have proven to be. With this, I consider the issue closed.

Karl Stagno-Navarra

Apparently it does.

Does that mean that it pays not be principle-based and simply ride on public sentiment?

I couldn’t agree more – I’ve just seen parts of Bondi+ and I have to admit that Jason spoke a hell of a lot better than Paul Borg Olivier who simply avoided questions by beating around the bush.
Anyone would have found it tough-going to outshine his predecessor but Paul Borg Olivier, by any stretch of the imagination, was a poor choice especially when considering the odds one has to overcome to get remotely close to winning an election after three consecutive wins.

Oh Christ – I ask a simple question and I get attacked by someone who wants to show blog readers that he’s read Gramsci and Althusser.

Now my question was… wasn’t Karl Stagno Navarra a PN journalist/reporter? I wasn’t criticising what he wrote in Malta Today. I was simply making an observation and asking a simple question. Ok?

Today he declared that he is relieved that the PN did not lose the second seat. Worst of all he came out with the proposal that the PN needs to abide by the document “Xibka ta’ Komunikazzjoni” to move ahead. What the heck is this? First of all that document is over five years old, completely obsolete and worst of all, full of theoretical b*shit. It’s time to get out of this dogma, and become practical and pragmatic.

After all, the people are not sophisticated, and do not read any documents. It’s the image which counts. Simple PR. The people in the streets were impressed with the VAT on car registration issue, even though it’s all bullshit, and we have to fork out the EUR50 million. Same story with mobile phone rates – it’s a lie, but the people do not go to the EU website to read the exact chain of events.

In the US Obama won with a couple of slogans. No policies, nothing. He was lucky because after eight years of disaster with Bush, people wanted someone decent, just that. He was also lucky to face a lousy campaign on his opponents’ side.

Did you account for non-transferable votes?

He got fired for other non political reasons

Edward is really good at it.