Let us hope that this infantile approach is a mere teething problem and not an example of how the new PL intends to convince intelligent people to vote Labour.

Daphne, I think you’re the best thing since buttered toast for Malta – or should that be mono-saturated fats? I don’t know, I get lost in the recurring update by “leading” scientific research on what will kill you and what won’t.

Whether I agree with all you say or don’t is a moot point – I feel it needs to be said and you really must have a writ from God herself to say what you do and get away with it. Maybe the Maltese jurisdictional dept is too tied up with its monumental backlog (that three-hour lunch break – just gotta go!) to deal with such petty issues as libel cases. Anyway. I agree with much of what you say, and you say it with balls, which I admire.

BUT you”re accusing the Labour camp of incompetence at a time when the current administration is hardly showing competence. More like they reckon they’ve got a winning team of contestants for the 300 metres incontinents dash just because they have the cunning aplomb to wear waterproof underwear. It doesn’t wash. In more ways than one.

Come on, let’s face it – both sides of the political spectrum are loaded with corruption and BS. It’s all about the money. And in the meantime much of Malta’s greatest assets are getting washed away in the deluge of negligence. Step back a minute from political allegiances and tell me, if Malta were a living entity, one of your own per se, would you care for it the way it is being cared for now?

I think she meant “the fathers of whose babies did not support them…”

That is the only bit of the whole article I read, anyway

Antoine, I don’t have to “ask anybody” for hindsight. I can make up my own mind and I don’t have to go into any blog to be told what I should be thinking on any given subject.

Twanny, when discussing the EU referendum result (still going on about it?) you should ask Joseph Muscat to lend you some of his hindsight,

One would expect Labour to be odds-on favourite to win the next general elections. But three and a half years is a rather long time in politics. The only time I recall when the party in government was very popular mid-way through its term was in 1982 when the UK won the Falklands War. A lot of it is down to getting your timing right; we’re familiar with the story of the tortoise and the hare (not the one where tortoise wins because the hare is beaten up by the Ninja Turtles).

No real reply, I see.

So we have to make a distinction between real single mothers and women who pose as single mothers, not start a single mother witch hunt as seems to be happening. You mentioned university. Are you there as a student? Do you think we should have self-sufficient students as well and do away with stipends?

Thank you Twanny! yes it should read 9, thank God I gave up accountancy quite some time ago…..but thinking about it I think the joke will survive 90 decades.

I was for benefits for single mothers until I began to hear to women keeping their children illegitimate and registering them with ‘father unknown’ just to get the money.

When people abuse the system, it’s us who have to pay for them. You’re paying for someone else’s shortcomings.

After all, what’s the worst thing that can happen to you if you fall pregnant when you’re single? You get a child, a flat, children’s allowance and child support.

It’s a system that does it all it can to coax single mothers into writing “unknown father” on their child’s registration… after all, people bend over backwards to get a free hat or a free juice, and there’s nothing better than a free flat.

I have nothing against single mothers who are self-sufficient or reliant on family (we have single mothers at university, but the ones I know aren’t on welfare).