But surely if they – the MLP – knew about this issue well in advance why take the risk and wait till the last minute.

[Daphne – They definitely knew about it well in advance, Raphael. They had enough time to produce a book about it.]

The opportunity of throwing enough mud over a period of time was lost. Are they that stupid? Have I missed something here. Did they really only find out at the last minute? Or did Muscat keep it to himself until the very end to embarrass Sant?

They had even written, produced and had printed a book called “L-iskandlu tal-Mistra”. That kind of thing takes time.

The book had gone on sale during Labour’s mass meeting the day after Sant revealed all in his press conference, complete with adverts on Labour’s television and radio stations.

The existence of that book has now been Stalinised: wiped off the record.

Seriously, would you go through all that trouble without having the hard facts, like a contract, in hand?

So this business that the MLP was surprised when it was handed the contract is hogwash. The only thing it wasn’t expecting was that the Nationalist Party knew exactly what Sant would be coming up with.

And we all know who was behind that.

Tell it to the marines.

It is a fact that the electorate (or floating vote) does not trust Labour on two very sensitive issues, education and work, because of their disastrous track record in these particular sectors.

This absolute majority suddenly evaporated and the PN very nearly lost the election due to the Mistra debacle by JPO.

MALTA TODAY PUPPET JOURNALISTS: this is the reason why Austin Gatt was so furious at JPO’s lies and antics. After starting an electoral campaign with a deficit of several percentage points behind Labour, and driving home the message that Alfred Sant can’t be trusted, the JPO Mistra scandal almost blew it.

SAVIOUR BALZAN: I challenge you to verify this with Austin Gatt.

“Question: After Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s resignation, what’s the next step for Gonzi?

1) Early elections: Gonzi has now lost the one-seat majority he never had. 73%

2) Govern till 2013: after all, JPO pledged his support and we don’t need any shocks to the system. 18%

3) This is an opportunity for JPO to bolster the legislative programme: maybe a coalition is not so bad after all. 9%”

Din il-logika ma’ fihmthiex u l-Mulla Nasr al-Din , wara hafna tmahmih u tiftix huwa tal-fehma li x’aktarx bis-shana li qed taghmel hafna nies qed jitilfu rashom.