And MEPA and the environment go hand in hand so Jeffrey mostly Jeffrey would have been given a post as a parlamentary secretary. I am sorry for Labour which tries to foment such rumours.

I tell the public that there were only 4 permits which braeched the habitats directive and only two were blocked those which were related to nationalist political party. The other two were allowed to continue.

And what has labour to say about PortoMaso and its height limit. This party is a problem he discriminated and foments hatred. BIG PROBLEM.

I stronly believe that Joseph Muscat is a pawn in the hands of those who elected him as labour leader. If another person was appointed as Labour leader such as George Abela he would have had the common sense to get rid of alot of the party propaganda and other useless parlamentary figures.

These would have been sent begging in the street. Some of them would not have a job if they are not elected in parlament.

Perhaps preference had nothing to do with it. Perhaps the MLP was paid to do that sort of thing. Perhaps the MLP received money from Gaddafi – like it did when they organised a protest meeting during the Bush-Gorbachev summit.

Which is as it should be. Europe’s standards are considerably higher than those of Gaddafi’s Libya.

This was a 2008 subjective assessment of Cabinet members by someone coming from one end of the US political spectrum. An appraisal of the same members undertaken today and by a political appointee from the other end of the spectrum may differ.

[Daphne – You will notice that Kmiec (Obama’s appointee) had much the same opinion of the Labour Party as did his Republican predecessor. If opinions have changed since 2008, it will be because of performance or non-performance since, and not because of the political sympathies of the ambassadors or the governments they serve. Ambassadors serve their country not their party, and the US has been suspicious of the Malta Labour Party since the 1960s at least, with good reason as events have proved.]

What exactly is your point, Leonard?

Are you implying that because the Ambassador happened to be a Republican reporting to a Republican government, her remarks and concerns are any less valid?

The fact is that the US trusts a Nationalist government infinitely more than a Labour government which preferred to aid a murderous tyrant by tipping him off about an impending US raid on Libya than to maintain a much more advantageous relationship with the Americans.

Of course, now GaddafiPL are trying to cosy-up with the American Ambassador and brag about a ‘good relationship’ with the US. Still, they can never shake off the suspicious intimate relationship with Gaddafi and one has to remember that Gaddafi and the US just do not mix too well.

Jeez, Kevvy, stick to the dishes.

Frontex is not intended “to curb the flow of migrants.” Commissioner Malmstrom herself said only last month that ‘Frontex is not there to push back migrants, but to help in the facilitation of EU asylum procedures.’

It would be interesting to find out what their opinion would be of a Labour cabinet should Malta have the misfortune of being saddled with one.