@David Buttigieg – Maybe she ran out of silver foil, and borrowed something from a Korean friend.

@ Antoine Vella

Focusing on job generation and safeguarding jobs is every democratic government’s duty and I surely don’t have any argument against that. As for improving the general standard of living, well, I’ll let the rest of the population answer that one. I agree that over the past 20 odd years or so the standard of living has improved but has started going down again the last few years and there is no sign of reversing that on the horizon.

I have friends on both sides of the political parties and some reasons I heard from PN supporters as to why they are unhappy are mainly unfair and very doubtful water and electricity bills. Incidentally, why is it that the government always mentions 30,000 families that need social assistance with water and electricity bills – doesn’t this number go up or down over the years? Is it possible that 30,000 families = roughly translated to 25% of the population never improved under 22 years of PN rule?

Issues like illegal immigration, poor roads, road maintenance and pavements after 22 years of empty promises, projects not started, let alone finished, arrogance from ministers (they only remember you before election time, the rest of the years you might as well be dead), poor excuses to collect more taxes like the vehicle eco-tax introduced this year. Has anyone honestly seen an improvement on our roads? The buses saga and many more.

It is issues like these that sway a voter one way or another and not the petty stuff.

Personally, I would not care less if they didn’t change a spent light bulb in my street, or if they allowed hunting on rats, or my hardware store accidentally misplaces my promised light bulbs. I already have dangerous, lunatic drivers to look out for on our roads, thank you.

I have just seen the clip – what the hell was Michelle wearing?

[Daphne – The people who had them at home or spent money on them owned a symbol. The others were just waving something around that was given to them by the party bosses.]

More like a bowel movement.

[Daphne – Relax. Did those supporters bring them from home or buy them, as we did? Or were they distributed with instructions by party apparatchiks?]

I don’t care what’s on the other side….. I just want the PN to stop acting nice 5 weeks prior to the election, and then bull the other 5 whole years.

Deja Vu

I seem to be hearing Alfred Sant again saying, ‘No regrets’ especially when asked about why the people decided to vote as such.

Daphne, you’re lying when you say that “A crowd of thousands and a sea of MLP flags – and not a single European Union emblem to be seen. Not one.”

The pic in the Times’ website proves that you’re doing a disservice to this country.

[Daphne – The swallow that didn’t make a summer.]

George, “staying close to the people” means focusing on things like employment opportunities and improving the general standard of living, particularly in the context of the present international situation. It does not mean showering favours and freebies to the so-called “party faithful”. The PN did much better than expected in the last general elections and has won the electorate’s trust for the past three decades so it must be doing something right.