Even assuming that they “help their own” and respect some collective agreement it is well beyond me how he can then trust them in government presumably to only honour contracts with their own.

The list goes on but yes it is quite disheartening to know that democracy gives these people a vote… C’est la vie.

Maybe another botched up CET system? Initiating payment for healthcare services? Taxes on each door and trash collection? Lowering or even obliterating stipends?

I should like to see Joseph attempting to lead this nation through the coming troubled times and leave us unscathed.

I think Dr. Gonzi has managed wonderfully thus far and people should remember and appreciate more.

We may be facing the elections within a couple of months and we still haven’t seen one single decent policy from Labour. They had said they will show us their policies “when the time is right.” Well, isn’t this the right time?

Actually, research has proven that switching between languages to better express oneself is a sign of intelligence.

People would do well to read something more substantial than fb or timesofmalta.com.

@Common Sense:

Might be that the speaks both languages and even more languages but it is a sign of bad education to mix them!

[Daphne – Not necessarily, no. It depends on the context. Bad education indeed. Oh you lot are so very amusing.]

Reuters, one doesn’t have to spend “most of his time on blogs” to make comments. It took me one minute to read this particular entry, for example, three minutes to go through the comments and another couple of minutes to write my own comment.

I think if there is one weakness of which Daphne cannot be accused, it is her command of English and probably also Maltese.

What kind of ill-thought remark is that? Perhaps you need to read Daphne a little more.

However since the election became imminent, he’s already started his own undoing and that of his party.

First he told us that he will not be taking a populist approach and yesterday he said he will not reduce the public debt. This meltdown will reach it apex when the PL electoral manifesto is published.

Maybe it’s only my impression but Muscat doesn’t seem at all comfortable with the early election.

Very sad that you do not even manage to stay in one language but switch as if you don’t speak even one properly!

[Daphne – I speak both properly, Frank, which is probably more than can be said of you, and certainly more than can be said of Franco Debono, who speaks and writes no English. And being an expressive communicator is not sad at all. It is very useful.]