I believe they try. But they have socialist blinkers on. They are surely not progressive, which is why Joseph Muscat is trying to make his party look progressive.

As socialists, they defend the system – the party – rather than cross-checking the criticism against a set of principles.

If Joseph Muscat does not address this matter by 2013, and he is elected prime minister, he is likely to find the strongest opposition from within his own party, like Alfred Sant did before him.

Ma’ din il-lista tista’ zzid ukoll il-fatt li wara Mintoff kien ghadda l-PN biz-zufjett ghax talbu li jkollom stazzjon tar-radju taghhom, imbaghad kienu huma li grew fethu s-Super One qishom kienu dejjem favur stazzjonijiet privati.

Li tellghu iktar siggijiet mill-PN ghall-parlament Ewropew mhux tort taghhom imma ta’ dawk in-Nazzjonalisti egoisti li juzaw l-vot taghhom bhala arma u jigu jaqghu u jqumu mill-gid kollettiv tal-pajjiz.

Kienu ghaddew ligi li membru parlamentari ma’ kienx jista’ jiddefendi kawzi l-qorti; kif telgha l-PN Joe Brincat mar u kiser il-ligi li ivvota favurha.

Riedu jghalqu l-iskejjel tal-Knisja, u kollha bghatu ‘l-uliedhom hemm.

Kienu kontra l-kunsilli u dahlulhom sew.

Kienu kontra d-dhul ta’ Malta fl-UE u ghandhom iktar siggijiet mill-PN.

Qed jiggieldu biex jiehdu lura l-hlas tar-registrazzjoni tal-karozzi li xtraw second hand, wara li wiehed mill-MEPs taghhom gie elett min jaf fejn mar jizzaghabel waqt li kien qed jittiehed vot importanti ghal-Malta fuq il-Frontex.

Eh bilhaqq dik tar-ritratt ghanda fejn tpingi xini bil-qlugh miftuh kif kellhu Guzi l-Bahri fuq dirghajha. Imlahhma l-mara, kif inhobbhom jien.

“Ghax ma tfakkarx ftit lill-qarrejja fejn baghtu u jibghatu skola lit-tfal taghhom il-maggoranza tal-ministri bhal Austin Gatt, Censu Galea, Michael Frendo, Censu Tabone, Tonio Borg, Dolores Cristina, Tonio Fenech u l-ohrajn f’ dawn l-ahhar ghoxrin sena”

The Nationalists did well to send their children to private schools.

The Labour elves have forgotten that during this time (Dom Mintoff – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici era) those schools were demonised for charging fees yet many government ministers went ahead and sent their children to Catholic schools and not to state schools.

So much for principles.

[Daphne – Tell me about it. The cross-over’s daughter, Letty Baldacchino (current Norman Lowell fanatic, God bless her) was in my class at St Dorothy’s.]

[Daphne – Like Kurt, there’s a work of art in Luqa which you could put to good use. Please stop coming in here in droves to shore up my conviction that people vote Labour because they can’t think straight. Yes, Fenech Adami sent his children to church schools. Might I remind you that there was no lottery in those days, he paid full fees, and above all, sending them to a church school was entirely consonant with his beliefs, his principles and his values. That is precisely what I am on about. If it is too hard to you to understand, then yes, I’m not surprised you’re impressed by ‘Joey and Michelle’.]

The answer is simple: “Jew b’xejn jew xejn”.

Il-Progressivi of the 70s and 80s seized the banks, kicked the Blue Sisters out, burned The Times, ransacked the Courthouse and the Curia, beat up anyone who was ‘not with them’ and dared open his/her mouth, murdered Raymond Caruana and protected his killer, framed an innocent person and nearly succeeded in murdering him too when he was hospitalized, ‘stole’ private properties for which the NP governments have spent over 100 million in compensation and millions more to come, and the list is endless.

With a track record like that, is it so surprising that their present leader tried to get a freebie for his two kids?

MarioP, the answer to your question is, neighbours of the Blue Sisters.