Mela darba waqt dibattitu fuq it-tarzna wiehed mil-kelliema tal-PN waqt li beda jindirizza lin-naha tal MLP li kienu fil-gvern kien qal dawn il-precizi kelmiet: “HEMM BZONN LI L-HADDIEM JIGI EDUKAT U JITGHALEM IT-TEKNOLOGIJA LI D-DINJA HEMM BARRA QED TIKBER B’PASS MAGEL HAFNA U WISQ NIBZA LI SER NITILFU L-OPPORTUNITA LI JKUN JKUN DIFFICLI LI NIRKUPRAW”.

Waqt dan id-diskors wiehed ministru Laburist ghajjat b’halq daqsiex: “JEKK NAGHLMUHOM NITILFUHOM”. U minn dak inhar hadt il-lezzjoni ta’ hajti.

You are perfectly right.

Unfortunately the writing is on the wall.

I am not a fatalist but more of a realist.

In just twenty months the last PL government sent the country back five years.

If it runs its full term, the next PL government will send the country back fifteen years.

EU membership will limit, to a certain extent, the damage that will be wrought.

Therefore, I envisage, that it will be more like fifteen than twentyfive.

Anthony, we do not need a brain drain in this country, people such as Bubu, that would allow the brainless to ‘run’ the country.

People who give up deserve they’re fate. I think they call them fatalists. That’s not on here.

Who would relinquish all the progress that has been made over the past 25 years to allow a rampant bunch of unthinking, suckening thugs to return to power and re-rape the country?

The journalists should ask Labour (in particular Edward Scicluna) which sectors will be targeted for cost cutting to make up for the promises that Joseph Muscat is making. Will he be straight-forward with the Maltese media, or does he say one thing to foreign officials and rating agencies and another thing to the Maltese. Does he still believe that there is ample room for cost cutting in the education sector?

It is also worth noting that a less educated voter base is beneficial for the MLP. Less educated people tend to vote Labour, who in turn specializes in wavering the entitlement carrot in front of these voters.

The adjective ‘coherent’ is probably the best adjective to describe the policies by Nationalist goverments over the last 25 years. In retrospect, even the unpopular ones begin to make sense.

>>I have no doubt that the PN will not remove student stipends because it would make absolutely no sense whatsoever given their past record and their stated goals.”

For the record, PN did *reduce* the stipends for many university students not in one of the priority study areas (and these were the majority). Whatever monthly amount was left for these students is pity money and I’m not entirely sure they’d really notice the dent in their pockets if stipends are abolished. I mean, which Maltese student j/toqgħod-mal-mummy realistically relies on a €36 per month handout from the government nowadays?

And Bubu is right, it’s not just a coincidence.

I am sorry for you. In a few months’ time you will be in for a shock.

However, you have what it takes to rebuild your life elsewhere.

Your success wherever is guaranteed.

Many thousand Maltese will be doing the same as you.

The ones with neurons, of course.

It happened in the early eighties.

It will happen again. Now to a much greater extent. The opportunities are far, far greater.

Your children, with 50% Bubu genes, will have a great future wherever you decide to go.

Some of us have been through this before you.

Thanks only to our greater age.

Take heart.