What a cock.

That’s Tourist Street. And yes. That part of it is one-way.

Is that why Jason Micallef keeps throwing sideways glances at his fellow Labourites? To make their stripes look vertical?

If such corruption is evident at the grass roots, imagine at the top of the plant, or if the PL would be in government.

The basic principle of true democracy requires respect for and negotiation with individuals and minorities towards the achievement of consensus for the common good. All such respect is absent in this illustrated case (let’s not review the examples throughout MLP/PL history, for the moment).

My observation is that the history and continuing reality of the MLP/PL embraces a “top-down” only (authoritarian) structure, behavior, and attitudes. Power to the people only exists at the moment of an election (even at the level of Local Councils, according to this illustration).

The problem with the PL is that once elected you can never determine how they will “interpret” existing law, or how they will exerise their power (especially in the absense of policies). Normal rules may evaporate at a whim or by design (it is especially troublesome if one cannot agree on the meaning of the Constitution or if one wants to “amend” it in ways that weaken democracy).

The PL seem to prefer the paternalistic model, where the pater familis is the law and makes the decisions on the basis of natural authority (reality and equalitarinism be damned: everything is power and image projection); and Dom Mintoff is Joseph Muscat’s “ideal” and preferred model (the “Golden Years”).