Iva Reuben,
Censu il-purtinar used to spread about half an inch of kunserva and drown the thing in oil.
Still tasted delicious.

Ja Basla! He’s becoming a whole vegetable allotment!

Simple. The Nationalists have always believed in meritocracy (before it became a buzzword) and historically always went out of their way to be even handed, and non partisan. They even named their newspaper in-Nazzjon Taghna, so as to show how non divisive their policies were.

That this practice, whilst acknowledged as commendable, has irked a few Nationalist voters, who like the great majority of Labour voters, expected political favouratism, was by and large, ignored.

Reconciliation, and nationalistic integration, as opposed to the previous Mintoffian policies that rewarded soley Labour supporters (TVs, telephones, employment etc), was infallibly the reason given to the indignant Nationalist supporter when he expressed his disappointment at the lack of political patronage.

To even further remain aloof of possible patronage, the Nationalists Goverment divested itself of grassroot influence by enacting the Local Councils as a buffer between itself and the citizen.

Thus the time when my father had to run after a Labour Minister, who currently is seeking reelection, to repair a street lamp that had been broken for donkey years. was over.

BTW, said lamp was eventually fixed on the eve of the 1981 election, and this great endeavor prompted a home visit from this Minister, who whilst claiming that it had been his personal intervention which had effected the bulb’s replacement, promptly asked my parents for their vote.

But what really sticks in quite a few Nationalist supporters’ craw isn’t that labour supporters are considered equal. They do not expect that the Labour supporters turn overnight into rabid Nationalists either.

Nor do they expect gratitude. After all, as long as the better man or woman won, who can argue with justice? But they do object most vociferously to are people like Marlene Mizzi and her ilk.

This lady, who, despite her Labour tendencies, was elected as director of Sea Malta from January 1997 and later its Chairman in April 1997. She occupied the Chairmanship for 9 years until June 2005. So how can this worthy turn around and claim that Labour supporters are discrimninated against because of their political beliefs?

http://be.linkedin.com/pub/paula-calamatta/5/110/69

If you are asking me – here is my answer: Le ma mortx napplika għal xi Commonwealth Scholarship.

Your St Aloysius education didn’t do much for you Mr Cutajar.

The ‘British empire’ was long dead in 1964. Actually it was dead in 1949: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Declaration

Forgive my trivial pursuit of thought, but I was both fascinated and amused by the term ‘Merryandrew’.

I spent a few minutes (very well, and then some) trying to understand what could have been meant by it, but concluded that it must be some sort of scholarly expression that’s beyond me.

You know, ghax Malta m’hix taghna Lkoll just yet, so we cannot be expected to understand Big Boy jargon. But I’m sure these erudite persons will enlighten us, come 10th of March.

Fearne served as Director, Perm Sec and was even kept after pensionable age as consultant – was he such a rocket scientist with his A level as qualification?

There were other ‘reds’ who continued in full glory under Louis Galea too. Conversely, we were treated very badly till 86 – I personally got even up to four transfers in a scholastic year as a teacher, and always sent to the worst schools – and did not even get to see justice!

Qisu se jkunu jafuhulek xi darba dawn – ma tarax kemm darrieh sew lit-tifel?

And it seems that some people never learn the lesson – it seems Frank Fabri has been appointed Director of Education, after he was appointed Principal (after some days that he was not chosen for Assistant Head) a few days before last election.

I will not let these stupidities push me towards not voting PN, because I am in my right senses, but f’gieh kemm hemm, can we give the normal PN people their dues without enhancing unduly (when they do not deserve it, and when there are better people) those who will eventually shoot us.