You miss the point completely, Snoopy – I’m just saying that it’s been made tooooo easy for Dr Muscat & Co. to claim they can do better.

That’s a country mile from saying they WILL do better.

Of course, anyone with two brain cells to rub together will agree with you, as I myself do.

But how many of our electorate have even that many?

Smell the coffee: there are a lot of people out there who, after struggling to/from work (or try getting to Gozo etc), in a car that costs them more than anywhere else in the world except Denmark, sit back and say “this is the thanks I get for giving Gonzi 35% of my salary + NIC + VAT. Come the election, I’ll sort him out”

Your inability to see this (and Gonzi PN’s) is what will cost PN the election.

“been two years since we could drive anywhere in this country?” – and you (and Hamburger Joe) are advocating lowering the price of cars?

“Haven’t you noticed that wage earners pay high taxes because many don’t?” – actually Malta has one of the lowest rates of tax in Europe. With Hamburger Joe’s fixation of lowering the electricity and water bills and his other zillion, take 5, pay for half, promises, taxes shall go up. And guess what? These shall be paid by the wage earners.

“Are you happy living in a permanent building site?” – on the advice of one of his business forum buddies, the peaceful and saintly Sandro, Hamburger Joe has declared that he wants to dismantle the bureaucracy associated with the building permits and even more wants to start land reclamation – basically increasing the building sites.

Do you consider that these are how the movement without a name, can do better?

It was socialism with its misbegotten and evil ethics, but what is it now that Labour stands for?

They are just a group of awkward and amateurish pseudo politicians whose main aim and scope is cosmetic in nature.

They cannot be taken seriously in politics because they have made such a mess of this country when they were in office.

No wonder so many have fear of them, and they themselves know this because they they go to great lengths to dispel this notion.

For God’s sake, haven’t you even noticed that it’s been two years since we could drive anywhere in this country? Haven’t you noticed that wage earners pay high taxes because many don’t? Do you never see car prices in other countries advertised on TV? Are you happy living in a permanent building site?

Do you really think it’s that difficult for Labour convincing people it can do better?

[Daphne – Chris, I didn’t write this piece. It’s a guest post.]

Do you rely believe that a bunch of self conceited half-witted individuals, all with a distinct concept of what politics is all about, with no common ideology or principle as a cohesive force between them so much so that they cannot any longer call themselves a political part but rally under a banner of a so called movement, could ever aspire to a common goal and survive for a whole term of five years in office?

Very evidently the author does not face dozens of Maltese voters with a pathetically low IQ every day, like I have done for the past 45 years.

From what I can see, it is advisable that he joins the next circus this coming Christmas unless that will be already too late.

So some of those who support the PN are openly saying, now, that the electorate should rather not be given a say on how this country should be governed because if they are trusted with a choice, they will make the wrong one!

If there is one admission of a total failure of the PN government, this must be it.

The PN, through its leaders and speakers, has boasted that it has created “democracy” in Malta. That the democratic process has become a normal thing, much different from what it was a couple of decades ago. But creating a democracy means nothing if the people are not given the power to make a choice.

This opinion expressed in this post sheds doubts on the ability of the electorate, the majority of whom grew up knowing only a PN government, to choose their government. This is the most dangerous anti-democratic there can be.

In any case, how long can the Prime Minister hold out?

This legislature, now being kept alive artificially, will anyway die next May, at the very latest. What then? Should some excuse be invented to suspend democracy at that moment, if the polls still indicate a Labour victory? And how is the PN planning to change the indications coming out of the opinion polls?

It is very clear now that the PN is prepared to play very, very dirty to hold on to power at all costs. And it has already done so, as was yesterday exposed in one newspaper. Now it’s very clear why JPO can’t forgive the PN strategists.

Jattakkaw ukoll bla razan nies teknici li jaghtu kontribut fis-settur pubbliku, u lil membri tac-civil. Il-Labour ta’ Muscat jaghmel minn kollox biex inaffar nies ta’ stoffa mil-hajja pubblika.

forsi minhabba il-kumpless kbir ta’ inferjorita’ fil-kamp Laburista, li jispikka fil-figura ta’ Muscat u martu.