Yes, and that is precisely the problem with this cynical, easy way out calculation: it’s not the PL’s “normal voters” that Joey and his motley crew need to convince. It’s the fence-sitters, in whose hands your next election rests.

You’ll just have to hope that there are more fence-sitters who actually think before casting a vote, than fence-sitters who are motivated by hdura and lanzit. Joey is betting on the opposite.

They are pandering to the lowest common denominator without appreciating that by raising their standards a little, they would raise the nation’s.

But that would also be ‘too much work’ and it is wajz to do less if you can get away with it, right?

No one ever said the country was running on rubini. The PM has been accused of political dishonesty following the 40 million Euro budget cut.

Labour’s dishonesty is when it implies it can rectify forces beyond our control. And on a quick glance at the sectors in question, it’s quite clear the Franco Debono saga, kicked off in November, could also have contributed to a slowdown. As did all the squaking of a snap election, Maltastar’s had it on their pages for the past 6 months now.

[Daphne – dcg@proximuspr.com]

He cannot rally alongside the PM either, it would isolate him further from the PL, being a relative newcomer with a vague idea of how the ex-MLP works. His ‘terremot’ nothing but a weak tremor inside Mile End. As if that matters.

And when someone like Jose’ Herrera, who stepped aside, or so they would have it, for party leadership, starts questioning the leader’s judgement and wisdom, it becomes difficult to concentrate on such mundane matters.

People like Jose’, and there are others, can afford, will benefit, from another Labour defeat.

Why else would his PL find itself at a loss to tackle politics in a comprehensive manner? The plain truth is that he just doesn’t have anyone working with him. He may be in parliament, still, he’s unelected, relatively untested and with a sporadic, pastiched identity.

Call that leadership.

Of course the eurozone has lost its competitive edge, but these things don’t just simply happen. They are usualy the results of bad managment and greed by banks.

The thing that worries me is the fact that up to last week, according to the government, our country was running on RUBINI, so what really happened? Were they lying to us?
Or were ‘Joey and il-wink’ foreseeing what our Maltese Cwiec were trying to hide?

[Daphne – Silvio, Labour were actually agitating for more of what put us into statistical recession in the first place: absorption of oil costs by Enemalta. And if you think Labour can do something about ST Microelectronics’s fall-off in exports, good luck to you.]

The more time they take to admit that we are in shit, the more time it will take to try and remidy the situation.

Lastly, did we join the E.U. to have our pies baked in Brussels?

This sounds like something that I would have expected to hear comming from KMB.

Joseph Muscat is not a journalist. Maltastar is not a credible news medium. It is the natural successor to the Weekend Chronicle, another supposed Trojan horse that was supposed to persuade tal-pepe that Labour is credible.

In a few words.

The real reason is that the eurozone has lost its competitive edge.

For a million and one reasons.

Franco, Tonio Fenech, GonziPN and all the Maltese cwiec running the country (including Joey and il-Wink) do not have a finger in this pie.

This pie was made and baked in Brussels.

Then what according to you is it due too?

Why don’t we blame it on Franco, or isn’t he the target any longer?

I think the real reason is, and here I have for the first time to agree with Tonio Fenech, that we have too many Maltese Cwiec running the country.

If this is not calling the pot black, I don’t know what is.

Keep it up Tonio, you are really helping the P.L.