‘A change is only positive if the other option is better’

The other option

A comment posted by SC on this site earlier tonight:

I wanted to thank everybody for their responses today. I was reading through the hundreds of comments from the Mintoff piece late last evening and had to log off in shock and fear.

The way many people ‘think’ and react is just plain scary.

I have yet to meet a Labour supporter who can give any constructive reason to vote Labour.

All I ever hear is ‘we need a change’.

I always respond, ‘A change is only positive if the other option is better’.

I tell them you wouldn’t change banks if the other bank had performed so badly in the past and showed nothing in the present to suggest they had changed.

Labour had the perfect opportunity to fill its ranks with young fresh-faced individuals and would have probably won by default.

Instead, they have kept many of the old guard in senior positions. If you have been in opposition for so many years but you still can’t offer anything fresh or even build some level of assurance and credibility then you have problems.

I truly hope that enough people will look at the problems outside Malta and see how we have escaped most of it unharmed.

Most of my friends are in the 25-35 age group. I know of people who are already actively looking at their options to leave Malta. I think this pattern will be repeated all over the island.

They simply don’t want to invest five years of their time in a Labour government in which they have no faith. And before people dismiss these friends as blinded Nationalists it just isn’t the case.

They read the Maltese press but more importantly watch and read international media. They see how things are abroad and how we should be grateful of how things are here.

We all had a laugh regarding some of the comments about the bus system but what it really showed was the small-mindedness of many people here. Greece was falling apart, affecting everyone in Europe, and we fill message boards with comments about Arriva buses and all the talk in the street is focused on changing the government.

It would be really funny if it wasn’t so serious.

The Labour Party jumped all over the ministerial pay increase but to foreigners based here they just couldn’t understand it. How do you expect to attract the best people into government if you don’t offer attractive salaries?

The ME ME ME mentality is so ingrained in people’s minds they simply don’t see the bigger picture.

The sad reality here is you have people likes the ones above, writing well written articles and comments, and sadly, just as many people who think it’s acceptable to write in capital letters shouting abuse at a journalist.

They would love to see this site go down because Daphne doesn’t agree with them. Because they can’t handle a conversation like adults, so they react like savages.

I only speak for myself but I think most people on here would have liked a brand new Labour Party. If Labour had all new candidates and a watertight electoral programme many people would have sat up and listened. Labour would for the first time have become a credible party, a credible opposition and potentially a credible government.

Sadly this is not going to happen and again it’s the Maltese people who are cheated. Labour just radiates mediocrity.

I would love for all these die-hard Labour supporters to stop all the swearing and hatred and pin-point why we should even consider voting Labour.

This election will more than likely be determined by the so-called ‘floating’ voter so convince us with clear, well thought out reasons. Your party are not able to communicate this to us so you will have to help us yourselves.