IL-Messagg wara dan ir-rizultat tal-qorti huwa biex nghidu li hawn kollox fottimenti. U allura jaqtalna qalbna mill-hajja li kollox hazin. IL-FOTTIMENTI HUMA KOLLHA LABOUR. Il-labour ma jridniex nimxu il-quddiem ghax huwa mahruq. Hawn il-gid bhalissa gej kollu mill-ewropa ghax we are at our prime. Maybe we can say it is our Golden Age.

However Daphne…First impressions and making up ones mind on other persons, does not mean that the former is always right…
We are all human beings ( I hope..lol) and we are ‘programmed’ to err…the problem lies when one makes a mistake and does not learn from it…or his/her ego is too big to accept his own mistake…

“Before internet porn, their outlet was real women minding their own business.”

That’s assuming that only men watch porn

I am in London actually, I left Malta 30 years ago to join the British Army, that was during the ‘Mintoff dark ages’!

I feel closer to Malta with the arrival of the internet. My highlight of the week when I was stationed in Hong Kong in 1984-85 was receiving The Sunday Times of Malta via the BFPO. How times have changed, now I can watch TVM online.

You are definitely popular with me. I suspected that you are not popular with Maltese Australians because most of them emigrated to Australia to escape poverty in Malta and they were mostly working class Labour supporters.

Daphne, why aren’t you popular with Maltese expatriates in Australia? I am curious.

[Daphne – It was just an observation. The Australians might well be grouped together under the class called ‘Other’ in the rankings assessment. It’s just that this site has a specific ranking for the United States and intermittently also has one for Canada. Roughly two-thirds of hits on this blog come from users outside Malta, so I suppose the Australians must be in there somewhere. I can’t see why anyone would find this site interesting unless they have a Maltese connection of some kind. Conclusion: this blog is more popular with people outside Malta than it is with people who actually live here.]

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“..many times when I would ask a man for directions, he would immediately start rearranging his crotch gear.”

You are probably unaware of it but in parts of the Mediterranean, touching one’s balls is thought to ward off the evil eye. They might have been afraid you were going to jinx them or something.

PS – By the way, I’ve no idea what women are supposed to touch (wood?), according to this superstition.

Did I say the Labour Party was progressive? If you see my post I never mentioned the Labour Party. How exactly does the Labour Party being xenophobic, Luddite etc make the PN liberal? Should it make me feel better that the two major parties are conservative?

[Daphne – The Nationalist Party is not conservative. If it were, it would not have campaigned so assiduously to open Malta up to EU membership. It would not have been the main agent of post-war change. It would not have made tertiary education accessible to all and paid people to study. Much of what the Nationalist governments of the last 22 years have done would elsewhere be associated with the centre-left. The difference is that reform measures and social welfare initiatives were not funded through the punitive taxation of high earners (punishing initiative, as the left does), but through lower taxation right across the board and through taxes on spending.]

A party that still refuses to discuss divorce, let alone legislate in favour, liberal?

[Daphne – The refusal to discuss divorce is a matter of strategy, not conservatism. You don’t discuss unless you can act. If you’re not in a position to act, don’t discuss. Joseph Muscat needs to heed that advice. If he keeps talking about divorce the way he does, people are going to expect to find it in his electoral programme. Then if it isn’t, he’s screwed. And if it is, he’s screwed too.]

If the PN is not conservative or right-wing only the likes of Pinochet and Franco would classify as conservative or right-wing in your book. Or maybe they are moderates?

[Daphne – Why go to that extreme? The British Conservative Party is an example of what it means to be civilised, democratic AND conservative and right-wing.]