The road to political hell starts with the fatal error of reinventing the wheel

Published: June 3, 2011 at 2:19pm

This nauseating experience has taught us that the Nationalist Party didn’t learn any lessons from Sant and CET or Sant and Partnership.

You can’t reinvent the wheel. If everyone in the world has divorce but you, shouldn’t that be telling you something?

———-

Remember when the Nationalist Party’s executive council decided the party’s position on divorce and congratulated itself on the mature discussion? I tried hard but eventually blurted out that I could not understand what was so mature about a discussion that, having set out the history and social consequences of divorce as its benchmark, proceeded to ignore the standards set by historians and sociologists of the European family.

– Ranier Fsadni, The Times, today




2 Comments Comment

  1. La Redoute says:
    June 3, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    Presumably by ‘maturity’ they meant there wasn’t much screaming or vulgar language.

    It makes one wonder what passes for immaturity in their book.

    Reply
  2. ciccio2011 says:
    June 3, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    The situation brings to my mind some questions:
    1. How many liberals (I know it depends on how one defines this, but let us say liberal as opposed to conservative) do we estimate there are in Malta?
    2. Why is it that they are not visible, or such a small minority, in the PN parliamentary group?
    3. Actually, who are the liberals in the PN parliamentary group?
    4. Are there any liberals in the PN Executive, and if yes, who are they?

    Daphne, do you, or any one of your contributors, have short answers to these questions, please?

    Reply

Leave a Comment