Yes, yes… take the chance my friend, please do. Remember that history tends to repeat itself many times over.

Maybe Eddie never had anyone as dishonourable as FD & Co. in the house.

Ahsibha sew! Sewwa ahsibha! Tiddizzappuntax eluf ta’ Maltin.

Li ghandek lil Eddie quddiemek zgur li jaghtik parir siewi.

The writing is not on the wall! Ghaliex pjanajt li titlaq minn Malta? Ghaliex? Kontra l-hsieb tal-bosta, nemmen li Malta bl-ideat tieghek tkun bil-wisq ahjar, izda issa ghandek ghazla quddiemek: PN jew MLP?

He’s too busy processing applications.

It’s John Doe

I don’t quite agree with you.

Nobody would have dared defy Eddie. But Dr Gonzi does not seem to know how to handle some backbenchers.

An inspirational leader.

I sometimes wish he was still leading the party. Nobody would have dared defy Eddie.

We need leaders like him.

I miss those meetings; looking back it has brought tears to my eyes, until at 2.20 I saw 2 traitors, FB and JB.

“It means only that the government and individual ministers must usually explains (sic) and justify themselves to Parliament and if House (sic) so votes the government must resign.”

A”dded to representative government, responsible government it means (sic) that government is carried on by persons who are responsible..”

“This is not so much power as a high degree of influence and it does much to make the lives of MP’s (sic) worthwhile.”

“But such influence is seldom exercised in the open and free debate and it fails to attract attention, so that Parliament has tended to fall in public estimate (sic) further than its position, as the leading source of political pressure in the country, merits.”

“A Prime Minister could be removed in reality by a revolt of his cabinet. (…) A second possibility would be a move in the parliamentary party. Continuing support in the party is the precondition of the prime Minister’s authority in Parliament.” (Brian’s note: You can see the roots of today’s surreal situation).

“In July 1998 Dr Alfred Sant lost the confidence of the House due to Mr Mintoff, a member of Sant’s parliamentary party crossing the floor. However Dr. Sant retained the confidence of his party and remained Prime Minister although he had to advise a dissolution (sic) since he no longer had a parliamentary majority.”

“The right of General Council/Conference to select a Leader implies the right to choose a new leader in place of a Prime Minister who has lost the confidence of the party [footnote: compare to Michels’ Iron Law of Oligarchy when the Leader becomes practically irremovable.]” (Brian’s note: hemm qeghda d-duda.)

I know it was already posted, but Nick Azzopardi has added scans of Franco`s thesis for download.