Hi.Baxter, Was it the part of “the little fairies” that set you on fire?
What a barrage, that’s the way I like your comments.
Now that I seem to have hit the right button,More to come.

Baxxter, I do not think it was me who made that suggestion. The only change Labour can bring to anyone like us is misery.

Unfortunately for them, as Joseph’s surname is Muscat, I refuse to call the Party With No Name anything but the Muscat Labour Party, or MLP.

That keeps things all nice and tidy.

K

I had one of those once, grumbling away at his desk in the drawing office. He would go on forever about bills, when I asked him what his consumption patterns were, it turned out he had AC in every room of the house.

The idiot hadn’t even bothered considering a centralised system, oversized split units all over the place.

I would walk into the room at 4.30pm, piles of paper in hand, just to see his face drop.

Cardona put himself between a rock and a hard place yesterday. Cassola, Fenech and Portelli couldn’t believe their ears.

He actually engaged Tonio a good minute that Labour’s NOT building a new power station.

Edward Scicluna was in a panic yesterday. He had to restrain himself from sounding like the realsocialist he really is.

Qeghdin Sew just doesn’t see realise to what extent Alternattiva have become utterly dodgy.

They will blast an incentive to our human capital, whereas 600 million handed through a direct order to the gas lobby requires further study.

Cassola and Cacopardo have so much to answer to.

Please, aJS and others – stop assuming that if one doesn’t take whatever the PN claims as sacrosant then hs/she must be supporting the PL and their policies or whatever (I certainly am not). Isn’t this supposed to be a forum for the critically minded?

GDP figures are merely indicators of the wealth produced in a particular year. Taken in isolation they say very little about an economy’s fundamentals. The US’s GDP figures were grand just before the dot com and housing bubbles exposed that economy for what it really was. Will the same happen to us when, say, EU funds dry up or when the government is forced to cut back on spending?

One of Labour’s proposals is directed at students doing part-time work.

He called it a new stream of revenue.

The ‘elve’ remark is uncalled for. I merely pointed out to Anthony Briffa that the graph shows unemployment levels – you seem to concur – and that one cannot extrapolate from it anything regarding the actual number of gainfully employed, which are the data required to verify the ‘20,000 new jobs’ claim.

Incidentally, according to the same source (Eurostat) Malta’s unemployment rate and the number of unemployed rose slightly between 2008 and 2012 by 0.7% and 3,000 respectively. Again, this does not mean that the number of gainfully employed did not increase. Yet the 20,000 figure does not tally.