Same here…actually I feel slightly invigorated to vote PN next time round

” Labour voters, being in the main working class, are conservative about these matters and more likely to be against divorce, while Nationalist voters are more likely to be in favour”

Daphne this is RIDICULOUS. Nationalist being more conservatives and more religiously orientiated, have voted No in their vast majority. If you have any doubts, take a look at the vote in Gozo, where people are ultra conservative and majority are of course Nationalists.

[Daphne – Skewed thinking. Look at the figures as a whole and not partially. Also, it is a fact that working-class people are more conservative and this not only in Malta. Support for the British Conservative Party was superstrong among the working-class, and Margaret Thatcher came to power on the working-class vote. The early years of her campaigning as an MP were spent in working-men’s clubs. And the polls indicate quite clearly that support for divorce legislation is highest in socio-economic group AB. This in fact turned out to be the case in the referendum: look at the results for the ‘tal-pepe’ districts, where PN supporters voting overwhelmingly against the party line.]

so…. you think Joseph Muscat is redundant?? so what is Gonzi on your measuring scale? an ancient fossil?

David, I voted Yes and will vote PN in two years time. As Daphne said, the real loser in all this is Muscat not Gonzi, because he has lost his ‘divorce election trick’. His agenda is outdated and divorce will be introduced by a PN goverment with a big chunk of Nationalist MPs voting Yes.

Both parties must have been shocked by the result for their own reasons. The majority voted according to what they believe and not according to what the political leaders and bishops said.

I am Nationalist and voted YES, because I believe that it is high time this country gets its act together on this matter, and also as a sign of disapproval at the way the government/party deals with situations like this.

I know others have done the same, and for the same reasons too. The fact that YES won could be an eye-opener for the PN administration to pull up its socks and update its policies and advice to the government – it has the best chance to prepare for the 2013 elections without divorce on any of the parties’ political programme and thus could probably be re-elected, something it would have failed miserably to do had the NO won and divorce been put in the MLP and AD electoral programmes.

This is my personal analysis but am sure similar to others.

Please excuse my black humour M. Zammit, but I hope you didn’t bump your wife off a cliff.

You still come across people for whom “Europe” does not include the UK and use the phrase “the UK and Europe”.

You did not predict as you did in your heyday on Election Sunday 1996, but you’ve been whinging like a sad spinster about how the No side is going to win and how this would lead to Joseph seizing power in 2013.

Even your ‘cautious’ Sunday Independent article tackles a No outcome, ending with a one line-paragraph ‘if the Yes wins’.

Admit it, you screwed up – again. You should be happy – you voted Yes yourself – yet you’re cheesed off for not seeing it coming.

Incidentally, this will not ‘run and run’ – it will all be over by the end of this year. Ancient history by 2012.

Is it so hard to understand or are you cheesed off for having failed, yet again, to predict a result?

[Daphne – Kevin, I will speak very slowly here. I. did. not. predict. a. result. Predicting a result was impossible with such a great percentage of ‘undecideds’ still at the 11th hour. What I DID say, and you appear to agree with me here below, is that Labour voters, being in the main working class, are conservative about these matters and more likely to be against divorce, while Nationalist voters, with the bulk of socio-economic group AB and people with a tertiary level of education, are more likely to be in favour. And you know what? The results appear to bear this out.]

Some Labour supporters who would have voted No, voted Yes instead to ‘follow the party line’.

Many others, fearing the wrath of god, could not bring themselves to vote Yes, so they abstained.