I really laughed at how they took your ‘concentration camps’ article. Nobody ever points out to these people how rediculous they look? No wonder most of them do not laugh at British comedies and say that the British laugh at nothing (heard it often).

Tad-dahk actually.

Brilliant, Daphne.

[Daphne – zaghzugh, when you have spent as much time living here in Malta as I have, you will understand that this is typical of a situation in which almost half a million people have to rub along and survive on the same tiny rock. Part of this rubbing along and surviving means never upsetting anyone else because, in the Maltese expression literally translated into English, you never know who you might need. When somebody comes along and says ‘Screw that. I’m not living like this,’ it upsets them. It upsets them precisely because it points up their own shortcomings and their own lack of spine and conviction. In other words, it is not so much what I say and do, but the fact that they don’t do it themselves because they don’t feel they have that freedom. Most Maltese people are prisoners, zaghzugh: prisoners of other people’s expectations, prisoners of their own self-imposed social restrictions, and prisoners of their limited imagination and truncated education. Maltese society is very strange in that people are strongly individualistic in their thinking, very selfish and uncivic-minded, but then at the same time herd animals who seek the approval, constantly, of the rest of the herd. Because if you are forced out of the herd on a tiny rock, there’s nowhere to go but into the sea.]

I couldn’t agree more. What’s even worse is that the criecer are now into consumption as their raison.

When one considers the limited vocabulary, where quantity is the only parameter, politics become a vitiated process.

These last four years have been particularly marked by an utter vacuum on the opposition side, putting to the fore this level of reasoning as some sort of national pulse.

The backbenchers were led to believe Labour would have contributed, when in fact it was the same mentality which got to them. Maybe because it suited them.

Why else would Labour choose to shirk responsibility for a centred left and fail policymaking? Whenever Joseph speaks, his ‘proposals’ are either a call for US Republican style deregulation or a call to socialist subsistence. The movement is proving too fragmented amongst extremes to coalesce. His government will result in a slowdown in policy implementation and legislation due continuous controversy with stakeholders.

The lack of a European culture will result impossible to ignore.

It will be spectacular to watch.

Very up-market…I must admit and inspiring to all those who are contemplating voting labour next election. Joe iz-zejza would be the guy you’d purr up to when you need a favour or a permess had labour to be in government.

He would be the guy you’d need to know to get you through the goverment departments and avoid endless queues and fabricated bureacracy and who would bring you close to the minister when you needed a favour.