Mary you have not replied to Baxxter’s post, possibly because he used a difficult word: hegemony. He did not say that you cannot criticise Gonzi; what he meant was that you cannot claim that, in the EP, the PN had a hegemony, i.e. a very strong dominant position.over Labour, seeing that the MLP had a majority of members.

On another point, we have not had any “forced redundancy schemes” but extremely generous early retirement ones. Perhaps you prefer the militarised labour corps but those times are long gone, thank goodness.

And you are saying….? What? Beyond the usual generalised bleating about “arrogance” and “incompetence” you have not mentioned a single practical issue. You sound like someone who did not receive the favour they expected.

Let them celebrate while we do our homework. People had the right to vote (or not vote) for the PN, LP etc. If we do our homework right, only then will we be able to win the general election in four years time.

I agree with you m scicluna. But what about us? It’s 32.7% rather bad don’t you think? I don’t care if they think they won, what I wish is that Dr Gonzi will start hearing what we are trying to say.

I agree with eric. Last Saturday I did not vote for various reasons, mainly being the arrogance of people like JPO and our incompetent ministers. I will never vote LP, never, but I had to give my beloved party a message ie it had better wake up unless it wishes to step down and hand the LP another victory.

It is useless to blame past LP governments. Now they have a new leader and many people are believing in him.

[Daphne – Apparently, not even many of his own people are.]

If the PN is going to ignore this message, it can say that it has signed its death certificate.

[Daphne – Let’s not be melodramatic. After all, even Alex Sceberras Trigona is still around.]

David, you are another one with a chip on his shoulder who turns his personal gripe into a national issue. So you think that projects like Smart City and Lufthansa Technik will not help us meet the challenges we are facing. What would help then? Giving you some of the EU money you have applied for but did not get?

Mr Baxxter, for your information Malta concerns all those who have a Maltese citizenship and who duly pay their taxes. Therefore I have every right to complain or critcise Gonzipn’s hegemony, especially when things are not going right for my country. As you well know when Malta was running smoothly the people acknowledged it with their vote. However at present the situation here is not at its best. Miinisters are getting arrogant to the point of dictating, they have imposed heavy bills on families when their salaries have not increased, they first vowed that employment is ‘fis-sod’ and then they iare implementing forced redundancy schemes. The prime minister looks on but seemed too tired grasp control.

Agreed, Daphne. Mine is a simplified interpretation of results but it can be very close to the truth.
PL did treat this as a general election. So you can compare their performance in 2008 with this election.

All PL’s 140K+ voters confirmed their votes – nothing less nothing more.

At least, despite a heavy workload and many distractions, I can say I did my bit – coming over to vote for all 10 Nats.

I think you credit PL supporters with far more intelligence than they have, Daphne, when you say that: ‘Muscat doesn’t need to make inroads into the Nationalist Party’s support as such, but pick up the votes of AD etc. This is what has happened, and this is why his supporters are celebrating.’ They’re just happy because the PL won, and by a large margin. It’s absolutely no use trying to explain to them that, by Alfred Sant’s logic, they lost heavily (only 45% of the total vote).

My gut feeling is that the PL will win the next general election by about 5000 votes, based on today’s results but this can be averted if Gonzi pulls his finger out. This business of everything going years and millions over schedule/budget has got to stop and – yes – divorce will be a big step forward. Sadly, I don’t think he’s capable of doing the right thing. Not good news, reading about the comeback of il-Qahbu and il-Qattus. Luckily I’m relatively insulated, but I grieve for my family and friends.