Thank you for your comments although I do not totally agree with your judgement on the political parties’ contributions or the lack of them.

As things stand now, my choice is either not voting or voting for the PN for the first time. We will see when the election is due. For the time being let’s hope that the opposition gives a serious challenge to the government so that we all benefit from improved performance.

Thank you for the advice – to be honest, I feel like punishing Labour for their lack of service given to the country by not being able to give us a decent alternative.

Take care, Camillo.

Taf xi tghid, Jake! Tlifna lil Gorg Abela tort ta’ dan t’hawn fuq! Jekk ghadek tittama li l-Labour jirrangaw, ipprova insa. L-unika tama li hemm hi li Gonzi ma’ tikbirlux rasu.

Jake, unless the Labour Party changes its ideology it will never be ready to govern. Not now, nor ever. It can change its leaders and its hierarchy but the more it changes them the more it remains the same.

You say that the Nationalist government is old. You can use any other adjective – I would say perhaps arrogant – but definitely not old.

You come across as a rational being. For this reason may I humbly just give you some advice; if you do have children or even for egoistic reasons such as your future, do not tempt fate.

You yourself admitted that the country progressed ONLY when the PN was in government. Do not play Russian roulette with the future and use your vote wisely.

I have nothing personally against Joseph Muscat, Toni Abela, Anglu Farrugia and the lot of them. When you meet them socially they can actually be quite affable. But politically, unfortunately, they are a total disaster. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Take care and seriously consider voting PN next election, not only for the common good but also for your own and your dear ones.

Or from this?

http://senorgif.com/2010/03/30/funny-animated-gifs-red-touch/

http://www.redtouch.com/

Tinsiex Samantha li lis-Spartans tilfu kollox fl-ahhar.

I heard from a very reliable source that the police officer who slept with the magistrate is in a state of panic, walking around like a zombie was the exact quote.

No wonder Angolino is furious.

I seriously doubt Sceberras Trigona will want to contest the election again. He will probably content himself with an ambassadorship – the same post he occupied under Mintoff, when he was super-emissary-plenipotentiary-representing-Mintoff-personally.

This is a part of Maltese history which has been overlooked so far. Mintoff behaved very much like a medieval prince, who thought he was entitled to enjoy personal sovereignty over the territory of Malta. AST served as the emissary of the prince, rather than ambassador to Malta.

The modern conception of political power is no longer the personal sovereignty of the prince, but the territorial sovereignty of the state.

When we revert to satire to call Joseph Muscat “The Great Leader” we are also referring to this aspect of the Mintoffian legacy. Remember that Muscat’s nanna-given political education orbitted round Mintoff’s rhetoric during mass meetings.

Like him or not, Mintoff was a genius: his knowledge was vast and his application thereof ingenious. But whereas his understanding of things was profound and accurate, his actions were outlandish.

This analysis fits like a glove in the case at hand, if you will forgive such play with words. He understood perfectly well the medieval mindset, but then – and this is outlandish – he went to put it into practise in the modern world.

In foreign policy (after relinquishing it from his own portfolio), Mintoff engaged AST as his PERSONAL emissary, not as ambassador-plenipotentiary of Malta.

The modern notion of the state’s territorial sovereignty was therefore wiped out in favour of the medieval notion of the prince’s personal sovereignty on his subjects.

Muscat’s Great Leader persona is a rehash of Mintoff’s prince persona.

Needless to say, when Anglu Farrugia reads all this he won’t be able to make head or tail of it. He probably doesn’t even know why policemen are called “bobbies” or “peelers”.

I also doubt whether he knows who Inspector Gadget is. Perhaps a picture would help him.