It is Labour supporters who are stirring all this up. I think that he should know better and read reports on the internet about the reasons and principles behind this transport reform.

Search Public Transport Reform in Malta.

[Daphne – I know. I know him. Those are his initials too. He’s not impersonating you, don’t worry.]

Although I agree to a great extent, some of the questions listed can be deemed discriminatory and if asked, could land the interviewer (the Party) into a great deal of trouble.

But I do share the same feelings – prospective candidates should be screened carefully, and I would even go one step further, they ought to have a ‘parrinu’, someone who is an existing MP or someone from the Executive Committee.

Even before selecting new candidates the NP should bar any present MP who has given the PM or the party a hard time or went to the Press with a beef without first hashing it out with the PM. There is no room for unreliable and disloyal characters. The only room for them is in Joseph’s skip.

Franco Debono fails to understand why more and more people are annoyed and even angry at his antics.

The problem is not that he expresses dissent, even if it would be preferable if he were do so within party structures.

The one main weakness of the PN government is that it has just a one-set majority. Debono threatens to abstain on a Parliamentary vote. The problem with his antics is that he uses that weakness specifically to exert pressure and also to attract media attention to himself.

Capitalizing on this weakness is not perceived to be loyalty to the Constitution as he claims but betrayal of the voters who elected him on the ticket of the Nationalist Party.

Not too sure about your conclusion, Daphne. Remember Mintoff v Paul Boffa? Churchill v both Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain?

[Daphne – I said ‘recent’. Times change. Hence the time-frame of the cases you quoted. Things are looked at differently now.]

Brilliant.

I agree.

However I fear that if the answers are analysed and appropriate action taken we will end up with an election without candidates.

I totally agree.

Strange though how Dr Debono was singled out. What about that JPO?

These guys need to keep in mind that, as you Daphne pointed out to me, they have some sort of leverage since they hold the balance of power now they might not have such leverage later after the next election.

Yes that’s right, not only might they not even get voted in, but their presence inside or outside parliment might not even be relevant.

So their antics might just get their immature backsides into a lot of trouble.

What’s more, they won’t have anywhere else to go. What would poor old Jeffrey do? He can’t switch to Labour lest he finds the ex waiting for him. And AD would be mad to accept him on their side. He’s voting-booth poison.

I wonder who these 3 or 4 MPs are.

They certainly are not to be found within the ranks of those who used political blackmail lightly and for their own selfish interests.

These latter MPs are political have-beens as far as the PN is concerned.

Some of them might just make it to the PL’s skip.

I’ll bet my last dime that it won’t be long before J.P.O. joins in with Dr. Debono. He won’t miss a chance to shower us with his intelligence.