I well recall how the concept of “partnership” was shrouded in mystery for months, and never fully explained…

You forgot the tight white trousers

Did I read that correctly? Are they drafting an electoral programme that says what they’re NOT going to do? They’re the reason they can’t do anything right.

Antoine, while I understand your point, this is exactly why Labour will present a road map, and not a programme, in 2013.

Each road will have multiple lanes. Each lane will have different rules, depending on the interest group that voted for the party. One can be “agree with the MUMN” and the other “accept the war casualties whatever the union says.” You can imagine the chaos and the road rage.

Costs next to nothing, and you end up—nothing.

The proposals that people (and not just the PN) expect from the PL relate to issues which have to be faced right now and not post-2013.

How come, for example, that Joseph Muscat did not pronounce himself on the hospitalisation of injured Libyans? Is he in agreement with the MUMN or does he think that we should accept the war casualties whatever the union says?

Hi Stefan. I’m in charge of Daphne’s music promotion department. We’re currently working to send Clinton Paul to Eurovision. Your style is different, and I see a strong potential to hit the teeny-bopper market. Shades of Justin Bieber.

My suggestion to you would be to think hard, over the next twelve months or so, on developing a freestyle comeback. I was impressed by that running man around 2:40 in your “Fittest Girl in History” (who I presume is the filly at 3:50, though we only see her silhouette).

I say he’s the new kid on the block but the old padrinos are still alive and kicking and wielding a lot of influence.

He is politically immature and the responsibility of running a country is probably all a bit too much. I bet that behind that (over) confident facade he is petrified of the thought.

He would have no idea where to start from. After all where’s his track record as a politician? Nowhere.

Hence he must rely on those who do have the experience. Good or bad. And they are in a position to manipulate.

Since he has no idea, this fits in perfectly with my previous contribution wherein he probably believes that the current govt is doing a good enough job and he would not want to, or know how to, do things any differently. Quite frankly he can only assume that this govt is doing a good enough job. How can he tell, if he knows no better?

That is why Labour has not told us of its policies.

Joseph is at a restaurant where the food is great, and despite not being a chef, he is expected to explain to us in detail how particular dishes can be improved upon.

No can do.

In fact, he is only complaining about the bill.

“LABOUR PARTY KEEPS SHOOTING ITSELF IN THE FOOT”

I can’t get over how their minds work. And it’s not just the PL but its supporters too.

They don’t go by facts at all. But they don’t just lie either. What they do is tie themselves up in “If”s.

When the hacking scandal broke out in the UK it wasn’t because private information ended up in the press, therefore there must be hacking going on. It broke out because there was proof of the hacking taking place, and so it was investigated.

There is no proof that Dr Muscat’s emails were hacked.

Say this to a PL supporter and they will say: “True but e mails from Dr Muscat to a journalist ended up in the hands of the PN media. ”

And then they start:

“If the PN are responsible for this then it is the lowest they have ever reached and are a threat to democracy”

That magic “If” sends the rest of them on a fantasy journey in a world where that ‘if’ is true.

“They are disgraceful. They are dictators.”

But it doesn’t stop there.

“If they are doing that to a journalist, what else are they doing to private citizens?”

Another “if” falls into the equation and off they go talking about how oppressed they now feel and how disgraceful the PN is and how scared they feel, and all the while I’m sitting there thinking “You’ve made the whole scenario up yourselves, you buffoons.”

In the end they’ve thrown so many ‘ifs’ into the conversation that no one knows what is real and what is not, so they decide they might as well take everything as fact to avoid going back on the conversation and realizing they’ve just imagined everything – because that would be too much of an effort anyway.

Daphne, they do this to you too.

“If she were an independent writer then she can and should write what she likes – BUT IF she is employed/paid by the PN then she should be stopped”.

And once again that “if” sends them into a frenzy and they go on and on about how terrible it is that this is a possibility and after a few more status updates they have forgotten how they got to their conclusions in the first place.

Then, eager to be the ones who have come to the most horrific conclusions, they race through all the bogus political talk and come up with some other allegation, and then others build on it, and it snowballs and all they end up with is a headache and a self-induced bad mood.

And what is worse is that the PL helps them do this by throwing around empty accusations to support their fantasy scenario, designed to make the PL look like the saviours in waiting.

Crematorium anyone?