Traitors? For voting Yes? You sure live on a different planet. This is 2011 mate, not 1960. Grow up. This has nothing to do with who you vote for. This was a referendum – you either vote against or in favour.

First among equals.

Primus inter pares.

Our PM apparently has an a la carte conscience.

It does not bother him at all when government pockets hundred of thousands of euro from credit card transactions from pay-porn sites or gambling.

It seems rather more hypocrisy than conscience.

But the Curia never tweaked his ears, as far as we know it.

Nowadays in Malta it is very advantageous for a woman to have babies “out of wedlock ” as far as social benefits are concerned. Try listening to some Super 1 phone-ins with some proud granny bragging on how her 16 year old granddaughter ended up being a single mother because, “eqq, ma tawhiex job kif spiccat mil-iskola.”

Unless he means something else by “conscience”, Debono slips up in the first paragraph.

“This shows that his conscience is triggered more by matters of religion than by matters of state.”

For a Catholic, the conscience is God’s “notepad” in his (or her) heart. It’s where he tells us what is moral or immoral. It’s our duty to keep an informed conscience.

I can’t see how it can be “triggered” by matters of state, other than to discern between their im/morality.

I can’t offer an explanation. To my mind it just won’t do. A lady prime minister is OK, but a female leader of the PN … can’t even picture it.

Labour came close to getting a female leader. Ms Coleiro Preca contested the electopn for leader last time round. Do you know if any woman contested the post within the PN? I don’t think that ever happened. But I may be wrong.

[Daphne – Exactly how would Marie Louise Coleiro Preca have made a good leader?]

Mass migration?
Must be because it is the closed season and the hunters are out at sea on their boats doing some illegal fishing.

By trauma, I am not limiting myself only to the emotions, which, for marriages that have broken some time ago, would have subsided by now.

Although there is still place for emotions even there, because it is not a given that if one part of the couple now prefers to go for a divorce, the other party will accept it.

I am referring also to the legal process, the costs, the application of a new law, the separation of the wealth, the children and their “guaranteed” maintenance etc.

I am also taking into account that like anything new, the application of the law in those initial one or two years will face numerous problems, including the setting up of the structures, the time to train people etc. and this will surely lead to many frustrations. A bit like VAT in the beginning, and Arriva.

AD was not the PN, it was the middle of the road not the opposite side of the road. AD was born mostly because of the MLP’s roughshod tactics within the party that’s why Toni and Wenzu crossed to and fro like a shuttlecock from one party to the other.

People wouldn’t have been appalled if Cyrus went with AD.

And they say Sant is the expert at getting it wrong.