Joseph probably spends his entire day rehearsing in front of a camera for his speeches, committing every expression to memory. His speeches are just a staged show for the cameras.

There’s a clear strategy.

Joseph has been reduced to mere spokesman, assisted by a couple of ‘GonziPn’ specialists whose job it is to tell us that voting Labour is anything but risky.

Then there’s the Labour network on Facebook, Super One and the party clubs.

Labour has difficulty in directing power, top down or a grassroots based Lega type system. A Karmenu Vella can have it both ways, as can Anglu Farrugia.

Joseph can’t, he’s new and without a relative power base, even because Burmarrad isn’t exactly a Labour core area. He’s overstretched and dependent on others whose interests may differ. With some, these interests don’t necessarily mean being elected to power.

We haven’t yet been told, for instance, why after the delegates gave Joseph carte blanche to decide matters, Anglu Farrugia presented his own motion of no confidence.

Luciano showed signs of impatience as soon as KMB came out against Joseph’s opinion of 1981. We all know who Luciano follows.

The latest signal of dissent is that of having to pass a constitutional vote as the opposition’s sign of goodwill, as if that would have brought the government down. Another clear cut position by the hardliners led by Anglu Farrugia, to be attenuated at all costs.

Luciano, Silvio, Anglu and Marie Louise will not remain backbenchers, not when they risk sitting behind the two Marlenes and Manuel Mallia, and perhaps Joseph himself.

Jose’ must be loving it.

Honestly, can anyone believe that Karmenu Vella, Alex Sceberras Trigona, Evarist Bartolo and Joe Debono Grech, to name but four, are going to bow their heads and follow Joseph Muscat’s lead? A pampered poodle leading a straggle of lone wolves? I don’t think so.

Let them achieve power and once again they’ll be gathering their henchmen and waging war on civilians.

The generation of twenty and thirty-somethings who vote them in are in for a taste of Labour’s golden reign. Cheers!

Yes, the PN has been playing this underdog game since 1998, after it learnt the lesson of 1996. From 1998 onwards, the PN’s mantra is “play the underdog”. So, in house visits, PN candidates tells Nationalist voters that “this time round” it’s going to be “really really difficult for us”, or even that “we have practically no chance this time”. Yes, because the idea is that this would rally Nationalist support. So what? Two can play at that game, stupid though it is. But this is how the PN has reduced politic

s in Malta: it’s all a game, so let’s play shall we?

Underdog miskin, if we’re not careful he’s going to be our next Prime Minister!

I have also never understood how people are able not to vote; it is so irresponsible, I consider it my duty to vote, it is the best way to have a say in the very important decision of who will run our country, we are so lucky to live in a democratic society and to have this opportunity and some of us waste it.

Is he doing it so that some of his gullible followers will think that he’s the most honest leader they’ve had so far? Maybe, I put nothing beyond him, However, in my opinion it can be counterproductive.

All the Nationalists have to do when the real election campaign starts in a year or so is play clips from his speeches and the nation can hear, not from some Nationalist candidate’s voice but from Joseph Muscat’s own voice about the MLP’s ugly past.