Now you can really lie down and weep.

I don’t quite agree with you here Oranges and Lemons ……….. I have no hatred for anyone at all …………… I just love expressing my view which can be wrong but can be right as well ………………. have a good day

Mr oranges and lemons…….what a cute nom-de-plume!

Enough is enough! To compare the ugly days of Mintoffian et al rule with today’s manner of governance is close to sacrilege. I also am disappointed at many decisions of today’s government but to compare today to yesteryear is abominable. In the eighties I attended the mass meetings and like others remember the ‘Wasps’ ie the SMU with their shields and truncheons.

I remember being attacked in Merchants Street during the protest held against the water shortages. I remember tal-Barrani. I remember the havoc caused by uncontrolled Labour supporters after elections which they had won. I remember the police shootings after the Rabat mass meeting.

I remember stones thrown at carcades organised by the PN. I remember the Blue Sisters being kicked out of Malta. I remember the thugs accompanying certain well known ministers of those infamous days. I remember when you had to pay a bribe to get a television. I remember when the word ‘consultation’ was erased from our vocabulary….. and the list could go on and on.

And yes once more this government of today needs to show some humility and be more in touch with today’s voters’ needs to stand any chance of being returned to govern at the next elections.

But please do not insult my or other readers’ intelligence by insinuating that today we are governed the same way as in the eighties. Some of us do not need to read our history. WE LIVED IT!

It matches Iljunfant’s tie

David, your answers are too emotional.

O&L’s opinion are rational. That does not mean that he’s right. But he is presenting a very rational analysis – which strikes me, to be frank.

One would expect the “respondents” to be rational too.

Sorry to say, David, but your replies are an educated variant of tony.

I would like to see an exchange of rational arguments.

David, but do you work in the private or public sector?

Oranges and Lemons said something very important: that MPs still send him recommendations to employ people.

O&L’s point of view is of someone who works in the private sector. It oozes disillusionment.

To my mind, it is worth analyzing.

No offence taken. At least you’ve come up with a decent comment or two since the “tie” one.

In 1987 you should have voted PN because Raymond Caruana had just been killed and not because of the state of the roads.

” Come election time I have representatives from both parties begging me for my vote like hyenas”.

Obviously neither party knows how the wheels and gears in your thinking system are all jammed up.

“:… in Malta it takes a strong backbone not to vote”. Are you describing your backbone? It’s more likely that you are describing a bowl of jelly. No wonder you cannot stand up and be counted!

Do ghosts have sex?