Nor Orange, for that matter. Or SMS.

The choice of a tour / cruise is based on peer advice / shared experience.

The Labour voters already travel en masse with Hamilton Tours, and these decisions are usually taken by women who influence each other.

One can observe and listen to this advice in various villages’ bars and grocery shops.

Karmenu Vella and Untours are going straight for Norman Hamilton’s market.

Within the C2DE classes, the husband might have a say in the choice of country, but not the travel agent and all the other petty decisions.

[Daphne – The market, obviously. The GWU has an enormous membership, and it comes attached to the Labour Party, which is even bigger.]

[Daphne – Mondial Travel is a private company owned by Martin De Giorgio, who used to lead the Far Right political party ANR. Mondial recently entered into partnership with SMS Travel, another private company owned by Sam and Simon Mifsud, to form another company called the Orange Travel Group. This company is chaired by Karmenu Vella. It is still a privately owned business. The Orange Travel Group Ltd has now entered into a strategic partnership with Untours, a limited liability company owned by the General Workers Union, which operates in the travel sector.]

We have for the past three years, been waiting for a transformation which never came and policies which absence have reduced political dialogue to plain speculation and the remit of public opinion to a handful of bloggers.

If the press wishes to ignore this growing collusion, the responsibility for this camorra style power mongering on a micro level will fall squarely on its shoulders. If anyone wants to delve in what all this could lead to, Saviano’s Gomorra is a must read, available in over 40 languages.

Labour’s cultivation of domestic business interests can only lead to a de facto opposition to the state itself. These people aren’t working towards the common good, they’re building the worst form of political model possible, the anti-state, riddling us with conflicts of interests and lobbies tacitly intersecting the fabric of their political party.

This can only result in one inevitable evolution, the subsequent legislation of laws which will perpetuate feudal notions of favours and politicians’ grasp on citizens reduced to serfs. Should they be elected.

If anyone wishes to pursue Labour’s perverse adage, that what it is doing now is not a repeat of the past, they are simply complicit in this gradual erosion of civil rights, rule of law and liberal politics.

Labour at this stage needs to be saved from itself. We owe it to ourselves, since they are, currently, incapable of discerning it.

Shame.

The difference is that this time they carefully avoided mentioning their usual target, John Dalli, who they used tio implicate in this ‘scandal’.

I wonder why.

John Dalli is now Labour’s ally.