Manum, I am sorry my comment upset you.

You are right to be upset. However, I tend to call a spade a spade.

Remember that in 1987 the PN majority was less than 5000.
4785 to be exact.

Did you live through 1971-1987 as a working adult or as a student first and a worker later?

I very much doubt it.

That election result spoke volumes of Malta and the Maltese.

Anyway, if the PL suffer a crushing defeat in the forthcoming elections I will take my comment back and ask you over for a glass of Dom Perignon.

If not, I stand by what I have said.

Oh but anthony is right. We have to work that much harder to prove our Europeanness, and it is a daily struggle, or we’ll slide back down the slippery slope.

Why do you think we go around selecting our few precious blonde girls to read out our results at Eurovision, or to be the face of Brand Malta?

Of course if we were a British dependency and had British passports we wouldn’t have these hang-ups but woops, I’ve opened a can of worms there.

How true , but Prime Minister Gonzi was warned many times that these clowns are ruining it all for us.

There are too many parasites occupying the best places.

Now when Labour comes up we can’t expect anything less.

I shudder to think what Labour will do when in government. People really don’t change.

Daphne! okay I rephrase ” pure Maltese” true you are right there is no such thing, but I feel a bit dismayed at your phrase I quothe ” and when said by the sort of person I think you are, nothing to boast about either!” . I really do not know what you meant by that phrase! I wished to convey that there are real Maltese people who are an example to society. Why should I feel inferior, when any Maltese with a good will, can do well in society! I dislike certain comments like the one of ” anthony” where he tried to picture us in a backward way, by even making a not so nice remark about arabs! Who does he or she think he is? We are supposed to be humans and believe in human rights. I love this site because it has a very important role in journalism which exposes a lot of rot lying around us and to make us aware of scum! But I felt uneasy at the comment by ” anthony” we belong to the maghreb, as if it is something very low class and not befitting to the EU! Do you really agree with the last phrase?

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Quite a lot of goodbyes, you could add Goodbye to stupid persons like yourself who think that the world starts and ends with P.N
People like you are so biased that they are being convinced that Gonzi and his merry men, are the only ones that can do any good to Malta.
This way of thinking was in vogue during the Mintoff days, and it’s the P.N. who are stuck to the past when it’s time to look at the future.
persons like me(true Nats) who are having a hard time to decide who to vote to,or whether to vote at all, are seeing that with people like you in the P.N. it’s better not to give the P.N.our support.

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Daphne,

I beg to differ: To begin with there is nothing wrong with hard right policies. Margaret Thatcher managed to shape an economy on the brink of bankruptcy in the early eighties with them. In fact, labour would attract the entrepreneurial sector in hordes had it to start proclaiming this kind of politics but alas, the truth is that this is so far from reality. Labour is still socialist. It never bleats about the overburdened welfare state, social benefits. golden handshakes to dry docks employees or parastatal companies and getting people off their backsides to go to work.

The start reality is that welfare secures a power base for political parties in Government and nobody here in Malta is prepared to tackle it, unless of course, we are forced into the austerity zone!!

No. It wll not be the only people who will not vote PN who will ‘have to suffer for five very long years’.

It will be all of us – particularly the mid-teen generation who are looking forward to and preparing themselves for higher education or proper trade-training for the career/job opportunities which beckon under PN leadership.

And, any way, who said it will be for ‘five very long years’ only. When the electorate failed back in 1971, it took sixteen years of ‘hard Labour’ before freedom was achieved.

And what are you trying to say by saying that in a very derogatory form if I may say so?
I would say speak for yourself! . I have nothing against any people, I am a pure Maltese, I have always lived on correct principles.

[Daphne – ‘I am pure Maltese’. No such thing, and when said by the sort of person I think you are, nothing to boast about either. You use it in the same way the BNP does, and look at them. They make everyone else embarrassed to be British, because of their stupidity and less than Adonis-like appearance.]

I despise anyone who is ashamed of being Maltese or comparing us to some low behaviour communities. Maltese were a dignified nation up to a certain period of time , when there was law and order and respect. It was only when that rat mintoff came and thanks to the british they made him even more a rat by sending him to study in england thinking he would be lured to other pastures. mintoff brought the scum to the surface and tried to make us believe that we are low class, I dont blame he he was referring to himself probably and he was very correct.
The Maltese society was always small but there was a social order. The british are partly to blame for their arrogance and for their mishandling of their colonies, no need to bring any examples just read Ghandi. As a small nation we do have a role , and just looking at the Way the Prime Minister Gonzi handling the Libyan crisis made me feel proud to face any foreigner in the face. Thanks to carefull politics and prudence we are in a very sound place. I am Maltese I will never be ashamed to be Maltese,Malta is a little piece in the global jigsaw where every piece is valid and IMPORTANT.