I think you misunderstood the meaning of this part of the article…though I can hardly blame you because it is rather poorly written. It is BASTJAN here who doesn’t know if his brother spoke to the COP or not.

In Maltese we have two sayings:
Imut Papa u jilhaq iehor.
Il-musmar il-gdid jaqla’ l-qadim.

Sending the present government to the opposition benches but still electing the same ‘tired’ even if ‘tried’ individuals will not guarantee a renewal and who believes so should look back at what happened in the past.

Lino Cert I must admit you have a point!

However some remarks on the graphic value can already be made

1. With the exception of one, all torches are leaning back

2. All flames are swept backwards

3. All seem to be carried away by prevailing “currents” and the torches seem happy to adjust

4. Although one does approach, all flames miss the blue which usually suggests that the flame has no supply of oxygen. Thus the emblem symbolise lack of oxygen

5. Mono colour flames are usually produced in the “controlled” environment of a laboratory and they produce sooth. People in the south beware

6. We have no way of knowing what fuel the flames are burning. Hope it is not the heavy kind but since they are all leaning it might be so

7. The text in all emblems is in different weights suggesting non uniformity

@joseph micallef
how can you say that about PL when you haven’t even seen the new emblem yet?

I think he’s finding the task exhaustive and time-consuming, especially the long parliamentary sessions when he has to face multiple rounds of MEPs’ statements and questions.

He has so far impressed no one, while gaining a reputation for sending minions to represent him.

No. You’re getting it all wrong. It’s not that PN managed to reconstruct itself while in opposition. It’s that MLP managed to lose the 1998 election on the issue of EU membership. It’s as simple as that.

Some of you tend to make out PN as being the Party of Heroes. It isn’t. It’s simply the party that rises to the occasion – The Reasonably Competent Party.

Incidentally, this is why John Dalli’s “ici Londres” rhetoric is complete rubbish. It’s not that the party has changed, or “become arrogant”. It is, after all, staffed more or less by the same people who were there in 2003. It’s just that it has nothing to look forward to.

Daphne, what you say is true but it also proves how different the two parties are-the PN when in opposition managed to reconstuct itself while the PL passes the time opposing anything the government does and says never being constructive. It has or rather Muscat has just one aim – to be PM at 39.

The stark reality in this country is that there is only one political party that can make some sense of being in government or the opposition, and that is the PN. Conversely the MLP/ PL is neither fit for one or the other!

Yes, the PN needs to rest and revive like it did when Sant’s government came tumbling down. The big difference is that there is no other party that can be a better or an equal replacement to it.

Joseph Muscat hasn’t got what it takes. He’s too shallow, with no clear ideas about what to do if he becomes PM. As I see it, we cannot allow the PL to govern and dismantle all good that the PN has done.

The other alternative is the formation of a new party but that is pie in the sky.

[Daphne – Sending a party to opposition doesn’t necessarily do any good. Labour has been in opposition for 21 out of the last 23 years, and it is as shoddy and ill-constructed as ever, possibly worse actually.]