“….(PN) losing the election would help kick-start some soul searching….”

Hasn’t worked very well for the LP even after five election losses and one lost referendum!

The only reason to suggest a second university is if somebody is pushing to develop a private university so that they can fleece the govt and students who want to try to get a tertiary education.

If this is the case, then local labour is a basket case beholden to corporate money.

If the PN doesn’t regenerate (something that seems to be finally happening but I’m wary as the election is still far away and things haven’t gone as far as I’d like them to go) then losing the election would help kick-start some soul searching for the party to find it’s way again. I’m confident the party will resurge as it always works best in adversity.

We already have a useless party, too much success risks breaking the only one still with standing and credibility with the speculators and conmen infiltrating the party-machinery for lucre.

Incidentally, do you think Malta would be better off with three or four parties? The UK is teetering towards a hung parliament and there’s a real possibility of a coalition with the Lib Dems. I think in the UK’s case it would be a step in the right direction.

I hope that makes some sort of sense; it is very clear to me though.

Anke nies li jafuh sew belawa. Naf nies li ma’ kienux ha jivvutaw, imbaghad ivvutaw PN bis-sahha tal-biki ta’ JPO.

I agree but with caution: Gonzi has to continue reining in the greedy and mopping up the sleaze. I understand that after such a long time in government things get difficult to control. If we get the same farce as last election I will refrain from voting or even vote Labour.

I don’t want the PN to escape the coals of public indignation simply because Labour is being held hostage by its goons with the leadership only for show. The party hierarchy is upside down!

I am aware that this comment is simply that, a comment from a lone voter but still that’s what I hold dear.

[Daphne – Fuzzy logic, Joseph: vote in the goons for five years to rake the PN over the coals. Bit of a masochistic, aren’t you?]

Vera Alan, kultant inhossni stupidu meta nanalizza il-mod ta kif tanalizza Daphne. Ikolla ragun 100%. F’haga ma tantx naqbel maghha “How is that going to help in the election of the Labour Party to government?” Super One is NOT helping in any way and not even trying.

I lately suspect that there is a hidden agenda (at Super One) to damage Joseph Muscat in losing the coming election, maybe as payback for removing Jason Micallef as secretary-general. If this is right, they are doing a hell of a job because they won’t get my vote for sure.

Joseph Muscat should open his eyes. The PN won some elections thanks to Alfred Sant being Opposition leader, now all the PN needs to do is to let Super One continue heading towards the cliff edge.

They will fall very, very soon and thankfully not being in government they will fall alone. The only pity is that Malta deserves an alternative government, which is nowhere to be seen.

Joseph’s idea of a second university makes sense. It is rumoured that it will offer a two-year degree course. The first year will be called ‘Reception Class’ and the second year will be the ‘Repeater Class’.

Every enrolling student is guaranteed to obtain a dikri, especially those who attempted to read the law course at the University of Malta and failed several times.

No spelling is required. Cheating, lying, spinning, bad spelling, plagiarism and misrepresentation are prerequisites.

Antoine, good point about the carpet. Apparently, Alfred Sant had a tendency of projecting onto others his own political deeds. Remember him accusing the PN government of “jitfa kollox taht it-tapit”?

Similar to “Hbieb tal-hbieb” – we have recently learned more how his friends in Super One have befriended elements in the judiciary and the police.

I disagree slightly with you about “Joseph Muscat is too young to remember the electoral harm that the Żwieten, as they were collectively known (even if they weren’t all from Zejtun), did to the MLP” – to the MLP? It wouldn’t matter if they harmed the MLP, but they did a lot of harm to many other innocent people, as in Tal-Barrani.

He will get that past Super One for sure.
You see, back to the distinction between the two that you raised!