Don’t think so, Baxxter. Yahoos self-disintegrate, check Gulliver. If you swim with the sharks, don’t bleed.

Fair comment, Baxxter. However, how can we expect ‘searching’ questions from the bulk of the current crop of candidates, when they have great difficulty constucting at least one coherent sentence, never mind in formal, respectful question form.

I’d rather revert to a British colony, but that’s just me.

Please, if anyone from the UK is reading this, take us back. We don’t want Joseph lording it over us.

L-espert fil-broken waters huwa Mario Vella, il-bearded red intellectual tal-partit.

This will degenerate into another one of those anal discussions.

Even if “Joseph” will draft a new constitution, what exactly will he change? The removal of the neutrality clause does not merit the name of “Second Republic”. Nor does changing the bit about the Broadcasting Authority. Or even changing the number of electoral districts and MPs.

Parliament has a supervisory only to the extent that MPs hold the government and each other to account. In our case, they don’t. And it’s not just Gonzi’s side either. If anyone has ridiculed their role, it’s the MPs themselves. They are slow of wit, ignorant on a wide range of issues, unable to think, unable to analyse, unable to grasp the simplest concepts. If those concepts are even vaguely “technical”, then god help us all.

I wonder if you’ve ever had a look at the list of thousands of PQs that have been tabled over the last decade. I have. A litany of bleats and shards of idiocy, enough to turn your blood cold. If these are our nation’s finest, then what chance have we?

If you think our parliamentary system has been deformed into a presidential one, look no further than our MPs. You may, at a pinch, fault Gonzi for allowing the current PN MPs to stand on the party ticket in 2008. But you cannot fault him for the other side’s choice of MPs. And they are the ones we expect to be asking searching questions and supervising the government.

What two years, you deluded fool! There WILL NOT be another Mintoff deus ex machina. Labour have waited so long for this. They’ll make damn sure they’ll serve the full term.

The other one was Franco Debono, there were two in the class and now there is one.

30th February !