My God, that Annoying Orange reminds me of somebody. I had the same feeling when I last looked at a Hallowe’en pumpkin.

The ventriloquist was busy practising his moves with Jason Micallef over at Super One.

Not John Attard Montalto, that’s for sure. He’s not into the downmarket side of the business.

Not half as inappropriate as referring to her on another stage as ‘din’.

Soooo inappropriate! Yuk!

I purposely used the word “education” and not “class”, and then again, this doesn’t only mean tertiary education but an opening of the mind and an awareness of how to behave. There are lots of tertiary-educated people who are clueless and maledukati.

Also, I don’t think this has anything to do with the family people are born into. I have met extremely well educated people who come from the humblest origins, and the reverse.

What I find pathetic is that the Labour Party has so far made no effort to appeal to the more educated “floater”, on which every national election hinges. On the contrary, those exponents of the Labour Party who are supposedly “educated”, such as Marlene Mizzi and Sharon Ellul Bonici, feel the need to go down to a level which they believe renders them “dhulija u minn taghna”.

Dhulija to whom? Of course, to people who would have voted Labour anyway! I wonder when we’ll start seeing Marisa Micallef in boobtubes and slacks at coffee mornings.

Joseph Muscat always looks and sounds like a fish out of water. He uses the term “middleclass” because, in his mind, using this word bridges Malta’s social divide. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

This is totally bad politics. What Labour needs to win the next election are the votes of the new voters and the ex-Nationalist voter. The new voter is in his or her twenties, probably at university, and doesn’t give a rats arse about middle, low or high class. All he or she cares about is a good electoral programme which gives hope for a good future.

So far, we have not seen any form of feasible and concrete programme from Labour -definitely not in the last general election and much less now.

This is a sure way to have those who up to now have voted PN, but who are now ‘floating’, vote PN yet again or at best not cast their vote. Who would take the downward plunge from PN to Labour, except in a local council or EP election?

All Labour needs is a good programme with fresh ideas, which is surely not that difficult after 25-odd years of the same government, an image which makes no reference to class whatsoever, and exponents who stop being, or worse still, pretending to be “hamalli”.

Good programme apart, Alfred Sant had managed to achieve exactly that, in the last (short lived) Labour victory.

I generally hate being nostalgic but your comment regarding the national anthem brought to mind a sensation which will stay with me forever. Every time I saw Eddie Fenech Adami stand to the national anthem I felt such a surge of pride that he was leading my country. The determination, strength and courage reflected in his face were the externalisation of brilliant leadership, which unfortunately, in Malta, has yet to be matched.