You really have this ‘culture’ issue too much at heart. Those students were barely 18. Most teenagers have an awful dress-sense anyway, whatever their political background may be.

[Daphne – It goes way beyond that. How can I tell for a fact that they’re working-class? But I can, just by looking at them: their faces, their hair, their bodies, their posture, their way of carrying themselves, not just the clothes. The ‘culture issue’, as you put it, is important. The fact that they’re working class means that they almost certainly grew up in Labour homes. That’s a whole lot different from 18-year-olds voting for Joseph because they think he’s hip, which is how the pro-Labour reports read. He’s not hip. He simply has hips, and the really cool kids can see that.]

A Labour Party spokesman today announced a policy based on a new revolutionary technology. This technology is genuinely revolutionary, in the sense that it revolves.

“We will call it the hwele”, he said, adding “you can put stuff on a batch of the things, sometimes even four or more, they’ll roll forward, and you can save a lot of time and energy”.

When a TVM reporter suggested that this was not, in fact, a new invention, and remarkably similar to the technology in common use for millennia, known as “the wheel”, he was scolded for asking arrogant and aggressive questions whilst working on the taxpayers’ dime.

He was also told that bringing up the past was the old way of doing politics, and that modern politics dictated that we should all behave as if we just turned up on the scene after a lifetime living on Mars. (Editors Note – where there is no documented track record)

When further pressed for his personal opinion, the spokesman said that the reporter had no right to ask him for an opinion and should wait for an official party statement.

Subsequently, the Labour Party issued the following statement:

“Our opponents have sunk to new levels. Notwithstanding the obvious benefits to the nation, they have taken it upon themselves to belittle our latest policy announcement with a vicious propaganda attack. As usual, it is a mixture of half truths and lies. Whilst it is true that a similar technology called the wheel is already in use, this technology demonstrates various shortcomings, not least the fact that the wheel is round. Our hwele, although similar in concept, is square, and introduces numerous new benefits which will be available to all at little or no cost, supplied by a magnanimous businessman who we have yet to speak to or meet. Really we haven’t spoken to anyone. Or made any deals. Or met anyone. Really. But we are very confident that he exists and that this project is doable. Even though we haven’t met him yet. With a track record of successful delivery over the last 25 years, there should be no doubt that we mean what we say”

A new slogan was then launched:

“Rota kwadra, l-ahjar ghazla”

Parents were forced to enroll their kids in the brigata, because that was the only way a breadwinner could get a job.

And, nearer home, the Brigata Laburista would remind us of the Italian Fascist Balilla youth organisation.

Those Maltese voters who do not want to see evil triumph again have only one option on the 9 March …….. VOTE PN and discard Labour.

[Daphne – Internet surveys are worth jack. Their value is purely entertainment.]

“Give me the child, and I will mould you the man.”

“Give me the child for seven years,
and I will give you the man.”

“Give me the child until he is
seven and I care not who has him thereafter.”

“Give me the child till the age of seven
and I will show you the man.”

And the Jesuits know a thing or two about brainwashing.