I never said that divorce is a fundamental human right. I said that divorce is not a right at all, neither under the Declaration of Fundamental Rights nor under any locally enacted laws. I said that in order to confute the argument that the majority would be denying any minority right to divorce. That is a pretended right that does not exist at all.

[Daphne – It is a minority right, or a civil right. I think Giovanni Bonello was very instructive about this in an interview in The Sunday Times this week.]

I have a hunch that this referendum will not be too costly though.

Time might well prove me right in predicting that it will be just an addditional paper to the election’s ballot paper.

Only in that way will either party “come clean”, i.e. avoid the responsibility, whimps that they are.

Democracy means that the will of the majority must always prevail while the rights of the minorities are respected BUT not implemented. That has always been the case and that is how it should be. God forbid that humanity changes upside down all the values that we have had for thousands of years because of some brain damaged minorities.

Min qallek li ma tistax thallih barra. Jiena noqghod il-Mosta (s’issa) u fl-ahhar elezzjoni sfortunatament hareg fuq dan id-distrett u jiddispjacini nghid li blajt il-farsa tieghu u vvutajtlu, insejt hux l-1 jew it-2.

Imma issa jekk jerga’ (nispera li le) jkun fuq il-lista tal-PN, bihsiebni li nhalli l-kaxxa ta’ ismu vojta – bla numru xejn – sabiex nuri li l-PN li pulcinelli bhalu mhux posthom fil-PN.

U hemm ohrajn bhalu tafux – dawk li l-mibki George Bonello Dupuis qallhom li hadd mhu ghola mill-partit. U zgur, u mhux forsi, li mhux qed jirraprezenta l-interess tieghi, JPO, ghalkemm dejjem isemmi u jinqeda bil-kostitwenti! Jien ivvutajtlu biss ghax hareg fuq il-PN u ghax irrid lill-Gvern ta’ Gonzi u ta’ Gonzi biss.

@ D Grech: Pullicino Orlando can go out with whoever he likes, but seeing a magistrate with a politician is just not on.

I defended him in the last general election but I feel I was taken for a ride by this politician. If I have to choose I will choose a new face after scrutinising him or her inside out.

Removal of taxes cannot be part of an electoral programme.

Alfred Sant nearly did it when he said he will remove VAT but his promise was that he will replace it.

Now Joseph is trying the same monetary tactic: the living wage, which will catch the votes on the low income bracket.

Thanks JPO

Now you have lost me!

A few inches above this comment you said: “A government elected years previously, with a program that did not mention the new problem could not pretend to have been given a mandate democratically to ignore majority opinion. Legislating without that specific mandate would be a mockery and a travesty of democracy”

And now you say: “A democratically elected elected government is not bound to legislate in accordance with the wishes expressed at a general election or after a consultative referendum”

There is a contradiction here, isn’t there?

Perhaps I am not seeing how the two arguments do not mutually exclude each other.