Comments on: People don’t want visions. They want the real thing.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:28:54 +0000

In reply to Albert Farrugia. Albert Farrugia, this article was not written by the PN.

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:35:41 +0000

In reply to Andrea. Nice one.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:43:00 +0000

Helmut Schmidt, former West German Chancellor, once said:
“People who have a vision should go and see a doctor.”

By: Jozef

Jozef — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:15:51 +0000

When Labour speak, it has to be about some category or other, so by default who’s going to take the decisions for these in separate terms if not their lot?

When the Nationalists speak, it’s a given that categories are not fixed quantities but active parts of an organic whole.

When Labour name priorities, they romanticise them into objectives.

When the Nationalists mention priorities, they use them to outline the means to an end.

Quite simple really.

By: Pecksniff

Pecksniff — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:51:41 +0000

My son is happily living and working in Euroland. My advice to him is to remain there.

By: Joe Micallef

Joe Micallef — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:46:59 +0000

I am not so sure that people do not follow a vision, but I am almost certain that people will not follow any vision.

For example it was easy for people to follow the “EU membership” vision because it was “tangible” but harder to follow the poorer “Utility bills irrespective of oil price” vision becasue most people know that they need to pay for what they consume.

With regards to the latter type of “vision” the PL played its last card back in 1996 when it promised to remove VAT. People followed that vision becasue it appealed to a cultural trait but they soon had a rough reality check with the introduction of CET. I am hoping that the Maltese will not be fooled twice! Am I asking too much?

Moroeover their is such a strark difference of magnitude between PN and PL visions, if one may call them so.

By: Toni

Toni — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:01:20 +0000

The uploaded videos of what in actual fact is our present daily toil in life will truly turn into ‘visions’ should Dr. Muscat sit in the corner office on the first floor at Castille. We will all end up having visions of our recent past and longing for it to return.

By: Qahbu

Qahbu — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:58:50 +0000

Where did Joseph, Michelle and the twins spend part of their summer break? With the paupers at Ta’ Cenc.

By: Qahbu

Qahbu — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:54:36 +0000

By her reasoning the crowds that flock to the two Waterfronts on the weekend, the crowds at Notte Bianca, the traffic jams in Victoria, Gozo on weekends are all signs that the economy is doing very well, thank you very much.

But then the statistics confirm all of this. It’s just Josanne (never miss a chance to hit at the Nats) Cassar, Super One and the PL live in denial.

By: heidi1015

heidi1015 — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:32:14 +0000

For all it’a worth, I agree wholeheartedly with your argument on mass meetings and that is why I do not let myself be impressed with the pictures in the papers on TV of the various mass meetings that take place before every election.

I also believe that the partisan papers do a great disservice to their own parties when they ‘photoshop’ the pictures of mass meetings to make it appear that the crowd was much larger than it actually was.

This only serves to ignite the fire in their opponents, as you truly said in the article above.