I find myself wishing that Simon Busuttil would come back home, takes over the Nationalist Party and give it back a soul.

To the ‘other Kev’: Our society in Malta is very insular. An Island of 20 miles by 9 miles with approximately 40 towns/villages (anybody know the correct number?) the majority having two saints.

The pique between these various groupings at times is churlish and stubborn. Mix in two political parties whose members come out of these groupings and you now have a common denominator – ignorance of the greater outside world, dangerously tied to a couldn’t-care-less attitude toward events outside our shores.

This is further compounded by a large part of the population taking in their daily news only from party newspapers or party TV stations. Our ministers are locked into this cycle of local life with the results being made glaringly obvious by a little war.

Shoot me first.

I didn’t understand a word he said but he is another I wouldn’t trust to flush after. Is he still active in shadow role?

They only care about the handful of floating voters that they need to vote for them in two years.

That’s it.

Two years is a lifetime away in politics.

Is there a space where to pitch his tent?

But there is a clever solution: negotiate with Benghazi for the sale of oil.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12969004

I pray that Thor God of Thunder will split the earth wide open with his Hammer of War and bring forth a torrent of petroleum in Benghazi, which can be sold to the whole world. That way, Gonzi’s palaver will crumble.