Business practice can rest on the simplest of principles: better the devil you know and to whom you’ve grown accustomed.

The Labour Business Forum and Karmenu Vella have done exactly what everyone suspected they would, create a parallel fabric. The question is to what extent the existing one will have to subscribe, imagine joint ventures where partners could feel pressured into others.

Sending Joseph over to reassure businesses they won’t be affected sent the opposite signal, there’s now talk of a new unknown. It is disheartening not knowing where the buck will stop.

He wasn’t misquoted. He said that and he means it.

How can he say that, when his party controlled business so tightly that some preferred to call it a day because they were not allowed to import consumer goods?

Of course he barely remembers those days and probably because his grandma had a picture of Mintoff in her living room which made her family ‘tal-qalba’, certain restrictions did not apply to them.

People vote Labour out of spite and envy but are too thick to realize that if Joey becomes ‘Malta’s youngest prime minister’ and screws up, they too will be caught in the vise.

And this an entrepreneur who since time immemorial has been involved in scrap dealing, invested millions in his enterprise, and had to wait aeons in order to be relocated to a more industry-friedly place out of Birzebbugia? Is that how Labour lets business work?

Guess who thinks democratic representation is being delegated the right to force legislation kept under wraps.

CET anyone?

There are times when everyone is required to contribute to the removal of internal strife.

Why did Jeffrey present a request to have Richard Cachia Caruana expelled from the party after he had voted for his removal with the opposition in parliament?

It’s better at this point to draw the line where the PN is.

It gives definition, everything else becomes background noise. Francis Zammit Dimech was correct in including Jeffrey as a Nationalist MP, if however, certain individuals keep harping on their ‘Nationalist with conditions attached’, loyalty to the party becomes subjective.

The risk is that the PN becomes another Moviment.

All I see is each and everyone of these beating about the bush when all they’d like to do is blurt out their misgivings to the PM’s style.

Michael Falzon, the ex-minister was on Super One yesterday, having to put in the disclaimer before every argument that he’s a Nationalist with a but. Give us a break.

I mention Falzon because he’s one to insist on outdated thinking in planning and the building industry. Then there’s Musumeci with his pained garbled legalese and not a clue to aesthetics, Falzon’s partner Chetcuti who expects abuse to be pardoned now Joseph’s prize ex-Nationalist, Jeffrey with his amoral incoherence to ODZ, need I go on?

Go to any other sector of society and the same pattern follows. The type who, a few years back, would joke during parties to how VAT can be a pain, or where to get the number of some contractor who could drill an illegal borehole.

They should know better than putting on their blinkers to the disciplined no-nonsense approach of this PM. So Lawrence Gonzi, doesn’t listen to their wishes, make that endorse their mentality, guess what, that’s why he’s there.

Blaming the PM allows them to shirk any responsibility to subscribe to the evolution he acknowledged necessary. So what if he’s understated?

Great news and what a great relief! I presume that he will also let the others work.

Donnu suffarell jdahhan u jwerzaq. Nisperaw sal-elezzjoni jilhaq jispicca wahdu u jintesa. Forsi xi darba minn Boffa ‘l hawn il-Labour ikollhom mexxej sura.

Tghid Marlene KetSjut dawritu l-post qabel il-laqgha? Tafhom sew il-kmamar tal-borza kienet.

“Our Policy is to let you work” – as opposed to what? If the PL didn’t have this policy would businesses not be allowed to work?

And don’t forget the conditions added at the end. What exactly is the “common good”, and to whom is it common?

There are certainly more employees than employers in our society. So would I be correct in assuming that the common good would most likely be what the employees define it as?

“Under communist systems, however, the common good was more important than the rights of individuals. Thus, communist governments were willing to take away from people individual rights, such as the right to own property or freedom of speech, if the regime believed it would be for the grater good of society.” – Communism, Tom Lansford, 2007.