Daphne, it does not matter whether you are a lawyer, engineer, doctor, an accountant, or a quantum physics physicist you can make a good manager if you have the natutal managerial instincts, acumen to lead, motivate and organise and of course the charisma and self discipline to make people follow you without question.

Paul Borg Olivier and more and more so Joseph Muscat do not have any of the above attributes.
You only have to look at these two guys once and immediately you realise that the first is suitable for an office job doing menial routine work and the other will be at home on a construction site pushing a wheel barrow.

Sorry but that’s the way I see it and I’ve been in industry for over 30 years.

I’m not commenting about Jason – he’s not worth the bother.

[Daphne – Fenech Adami and Gonzi are lawyers too.]

“Jason Micallef cannot be removed if not by the same delegates who elected him” so said M. Brincat.

The same delegates that elected Alfred Sant after the loss of three elections, a referendum and just two years in government after twenty years in limbo, he means.

Or the same that elected Muscat instead of George Abela?

If these people are ever entrusted with the leadership of the country, with that mentality, God please have mercy on us.

Jason Micallef cannot be removed if not by the same delegates who elected him. Joseph Muscat is the PL leader, but no leader is above the rules of the party.

Same applies for Lawrence Gonzi and Borg Olivier.

Probably this is why malta is so divided in politics.You will never change no matter what.The sink hole you refer to at least was never immersed in debts that we have to pay for long years to come.Times changes and with it the way we do politics and live our lives.People at least have their chance to change when they feel it’s needed.And boy….it is needed!!!

[Daphne – If you would rather return to those years in exchange for the dubious privilege of not having ‘debts’, then I think you are on your own. Malta’s lack of debt was entirely due to the state of deprivation in which the Maltese lived. If you don’t spend anything on infrastructure, then of course, you don’t have debt. And if you ban almost all imports, then you have no balance of payments problems. ]

Jien hsibtu l-ewwel li se jtajjar meta semma it-terrimot. Imma nahseb li hemm se jibqa’. Biex tara kemm hu cuc u njorant, diga qal li 4 snin ohra JEKK jirbhu l-elezzjoni se jrahhsu l-kontijiet tad-dawl u l-ilma!

Segretarju Generali ta’ l-affari tieghu meta jigi mistoqsi x’soluzzjonijiet tad-dawl u l-ilma kien jirripondi li likieku kien fil-gvern l-LP issa kien irahhas il-kontijiet mela 4 snin ohra!

Bahnan.

No need of reminding offcourse.I live in Malta thanks and i have lived these years.I have never celebrated EP election victories even if the latest was a trashing.If you ask me why you get the answer automatically.People did not want Alfred Sant end of.Otherwise it would have been a very different situation darling.

[Daphne – Oh, no doubt. And I am not your darling.]

So why the continued hatred and venom to the labour leaders one after the other?Everyone is entitled to opinions of course …but yours seem to be always one sided.All that is labour seems to be evil for you…ar am i wrong?

[Daphne – They are not always one-sided, Albert. They are factual. I see nothing that is desirable in the Labour Party, and plenty that is highly undesirable. On the other hand, I am really impressed with the Nationalist government’s achievements considering the sink-hole Malta was in 1987, and I am not the sort to, for example, vote against the government because of hospital waiting lists. I am the sort to vote for the government because of the hospital. I don’t regard ‘the labour leaders’ with ‘hatred and venom’ but with a mixture of contempt and amusement – and it’s not because they’re Labour but because all four I have known justify it. On the other hand, I have the greatest respect for Eddie Fenech Adami and Lawrence Gonzi. They are men of deep integrity, and that above all is the quality that I most admire. Dom Mintoff, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Alfred Sant and Joseph Muscat are all men of little or no integrity.]

Assolutament zbaljat habib. Vince’s comments were funny, true, but he had nothing to do with the result. All your team had. People felt more at ease voting PL. Something is wrong with the PN system. This is the second EP elections were they failed. And they are supposed to be leading the line….or not?

[Daphne – It’s also the sixth general election the PN has won on the trot, bar 1996, and the sixth general election the Labour Party has lost on the trot, bar 1996: 1981, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2003 and 2008. And the referendum on Europe, too, of course. I thought you might need reminding.]

Daphne if by using certain phrases you think you are doing the nationalists a favour…i can assure you you are not.Instead you are only proving your very worth in terms of hatred that usually results in violence.Most of you people(mostly after watching net on Sunday morning) think that it is still classic to terrorize people and voters over past incidents.You tried to provoke people’s sentiments with the Qahbu story withouth not even knowing a single fact.Police officers duly took care of the situation and there is no need for further panic.If they were wrong they will be punished that’s all.You don’t talk of the PN agents dreadfull actions in the counting hall these past days.Why?

[Daphne – Albert, I speak my mind and I don’t do it to do anyone a favour. I don’t need to do anyone favours. I have more work than I can cope with in the private sector, where you only get the job if you do it better than anyone else, and I was born without the need to social climb. As a result, I have had the good fortune of being able to live my life doing and saying exactly what I please, without being disloyal to others.]

When using such terms like…’his political party is so dreadfull’ and ‘he represents a truly horrible political party’ you only manage to instill hatred in our people.And that is not what we need.This was just a normal EP election.People voted and we have a result…a labour victory.Let life continue!

[Daphne – I’m sorry, Albert, but a factual analysis of the Labour Party, rather than looking at it through the eyes of a disaffected former Nationalist or somebody from a Labour home, can only conclude that it is dreadful. If you think that mine is a prejudiced or biased view, you’re wrong. Both my parents come from families of long-standing and staunch ‘Stricklandjani’, so my opinion of both the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party was formed independently and is the result of personal judgement in adulthood.]