He hasn’t grasped the notion of taxing consumption which doesn’t take into account a wasteful use of resources.

That is why he kept his cards to his chest, knowing that as soon as the underlying philosophy behind his policies came to the surface, this serious anachronism would have been blatant enough to scare off the younger vote.

It is a fact that class division is incompatible with organic policy. Tough times ahead for Labour’s propaganda machine: Expect contradictory statements directed to contrasting sectors of the electorate, the contrast of their own making. The divide will remain the language used, betraying their inverted snobbery.

Such systems can easily produce up to 20% ash as waste. Where will this ash be stored and at what cost?

Labour made all that fuss about a few tons per year of ash that will produced by the new plant in Dellimara running of fuel oil. I don’t know if Sargas told them the amount of ash produced when burning a bio-paste of coal and biomass.

Such systems tend to be cheap in the short term but can become quite expensive. In fact, Sargas did not commit on the long term low price of electricity.

Anyway such systems may be feasible for a country with a cheap coal supply which may be interested in using this resource in a relatively low polluting manner when compared to previous coal burning techniques.

@A. Attard
Please note that nuclear (fission) energy is not clean energy. You must always take into consideration the cost and storage of radioactive spent fuel which takes tens of thousand of years to decay to safe levels!

Actually Luciano did put the logo in his advert for the Bingo Party (or whatever that was), though it must be said it was small and inconspicuous enough to be considered ‘small print’.

Why is nobody mentioning the tendering process a government needs to go through. Just imagine if this idea had been blindly accepted by this government (as is being suggested). Corruption would have been pasted all over the place.

Can anyone tell me what’s in it for LP for such a political party to come out in full force all in favour for such a proposal without any technical studies, again no tender process etc.

If I come up with an idea, can I simply expect the government to stop in its track to listen to me and implement my idea, whatever rubbish it may contain. I don’t think so.

Interesting times ahead under a LP government, Back to the golden years where ministers ruled supreme. Bring shivers down my spine

PS. The whole set of JFK’s proposals was called the New Frontier. And forty out of fifty-four bills, stemming from the fifty-one proposals, were passed by Congress.

Could it be that this is what Karmenu Vella has been hatching, for all these months?

Joseph Muscat likes to act like an up and coming, ‘charismatic’ young leader, who tries to take the “common people” by storm. He is promising heaven on Earth. He is into florid speeches, without recognising that the arsenal he’s borrowing from makes him come across like a pompous little sod whenever he tries to act like a statesman. And with they wifely appendage, all decked out and acting first-lady like…three thoughts: Camelot, Jackie Kennedy, and JFK’s fifty-one proposals of 1962.

Just read Savage’s “JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party,” and you’re bound to hit stuff Joey’s PL is trying to imitate, plagiarise and project.

JFK’s fifty-one proposals are listed in Lawrence O’Brien’s “No Final Victories,” 1974. I think Labour’s elves had more trouble in reaching that particular number than JFK’s staff… but it’s just my partisan and rather irrational impression.

Ah, but look at point number 19. They’ll be getting back their five hundred euro per week and more besides, never fear. I believe Sir Humphrey Appleby came up with this particular cunning plan.

Spot on.

Is this the little twerp’s facetious way of referring to a 51% majority in the next general election? Cocky twit.

Well said Min.

To rephrase – People supporting, and who make up Labour as it is today – and has been for as long as I recall, with as open a mind as possible – have some deficit in reasoning skills or some other character deficiency.

Hence, the situation is self-perpetuating, as only the like-minded are attracted to Labour, and eventually end up representing it.

And choosing the wrong leaders, because they are incapable of doing any better.

How will Labour get out of this rut, when the best people stay away from it?

I don’t have the answer to that, but I honestly wish I did, because the only “democratic deficit” that Labour refers to (?) concerns the fact that the thinking voter does not really have much of a choice.