I don’t know who or what is reversing your osmosis, Kev, but I’d put the brakes on the boasting, if I were you.

Wasn’t that magic plant the brainchild of one Karmenu Vella, late of the Malta Labour Party and current policy writer for its reincarnation? It was (in)famously financed by Libya and 11 months after the ink had dried, we were still waiting.

And here you are, ready to vote for Karmenu Vella and his pie-in-the-sky “policies’ – again.

L-ewwel RO plant kien ta’ Ghar Lapsi , iffinanzjat minn Gvern Gharbi b’soft loan .

Dak iz-zmien hadd ma’ oggezzjona ghal-prototype. Ditta : Polymetrics.

U Dr Fenech Adami kien hareg bl-ideja.

Dak hu l-argument , l-RO plants huma ideja ta’ Dr Eddie Fenech Adami , bhal ma’ id-disalinaturi ta’ Hondoq ir-Rummien u tal-Marsa kienu ta’ zmien Borg Olivier u li Mintoff ma’ riedx ihaddem u hallihom jitmermru , biex fi zmien KMB kellhom jergghu jithaddmu.

Kev, the WSC website doesn’t agree with you.

“Pembroke Reverse Osmosis Plant is a 55,000 m3 per day seawater reverse osmosis plant. This plant was built in 1993. ”

http://www.wsc.com.mt/%28S%28psyey13hljdcm2vqwyqpab45%29%29/default.aspx?MLEV=24&MDIS=85

Perhaps the plant was built over the ruins of the ancient one built by Mintoff, like they used to do with temples.

So why was there always a shortage of water at the time?

Gonzi’s government is miles ahead and it is an insult to even hypothetically make a comparison between the parties’ potential and political acumen.

The first RO plant was that of Pembroke (1979). There followed plants in Lapsi (1981) and Cirkewwa. I believe there was one in Tigne, too, but I’m not sure about that.

Eddie had nothing to do with it. In those days, he was acting out his rogue-revolutionary role to liberate Malta from the man whose idea it was to set up those plants.

Wara l-elezzjoni tal-1981 – ghandek ragun, Kev, fil-Golden Years. KMB kien ghadu nej.

Xorta Fenech Adami kien hareg bl-ideja.

The PN, as a party, will not be better or worse off if it is in government or opposition.

It is the country, us, who will be worse off with Labour in government because despite a couple of not very well-thought decisions, the PN can manage the country forward, whilst Labour simply cannot.

The PN can translate ideas into policies and into projects and economic development. It is Labour, led by Joseph, Toni and Anglu, who need a lesson – in understanding what an alternative government should be all about.

Or the Hapsburg Jaw – if you wish to be more up market.