Do they want greyness, mediocrity, hobz bit-tonn taz-zejt, all wearing the same underpants and clothes so as not to have ‘lussu’ u ksuhat?

I speak when I see something wrong no matter in which political party, but I assure you we will be forever much better off with a Nationalist government than Labour.

It was advertised as every 20 minutes from Birzebbuga.

When I wrote to you that Mr Austin Gatt would have been ‘booted’ out in other really democratic countries you did not agree.

Yes after the past fiasco and the still on-going fiasco of Arriva in other ‘real’ western countries he would have resigned.

Here it still like a third world country were comfort for the citizens is concerned ..sightseeing tours, waiting in the sun for donkeys etc

http/www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Zt_GYTrLHek

‘Kieku Jien hekk naghmel’

The Greek bail-out, for example, or the hospitalisation of Libyan war casualties or even the spring-hunting controversy if we want to be really parochial.

These are all issues which cannot wait until the elections but about which the PL has been silent.

I was discussing this very issue with a Labour-voting friend – a lawyer, and an otherwise very smart person – recently and he said, essentially, that “Joseph has a PhD in economics and therefore clearly knows what he’s doing.”

[Daphne – He doesn’t have even a first degree in economics, let alone a doctorate.]

Well, it turns out that, despite my PhD in physics, whenever I want to publish any new research, it must still be thoroughly reviewed by a number of my peers before it is allowed through — my degree and my reputation are completely irrelevant to the process. His answer was a blank expression.

If a very highly educated member of society has issues coming to terms with these arguments, what chance does Grace tal-kantuniera (with all due respect to anyone called Grace and/or who lives on a corner) have?

The latter may also be perpetuated by the former. When one listens to their views, the first thing that comes across is the degree of misinformation, the second is that when they’re alone, frank discussion stimulates their curiosity to understand beyond what the party dictates.

Labour ignore the possibility that older people who show up for meetings and gatherings do so to maintain relations within a closely knit community the party has, on a local basis. This doesn’t mean they vote accordingly.

They just don’t like being fooled and won’t say it. It happened with Alfred Sant, to block his anti EU stance, where these people chose their children’s future over the party.

The difficulty to produce policies within Labour is far more serious than they think. The continuous editing and revising does nothing but prohibit constructive criticism from within, a process which follows a path up the hierarchy.

The delegates kill any potential flow. The top brass keep harping about how cut off the higher end of the PN currently is, maybe they’d better start asking the same about themselves.

When they call this blog, and others a haven for PN apologisti, they seem to miss the articles and commentary which weren’t exactly apologetic when it came to divorce and Malta’s difficulty with the neutrality clause during the Libyan uprising.

The political situation in Malta has come to a point where Labour’s parliamentary absence has forced the present government to acknowledge a de facto proactive opposition.