Do you mean the ‘Pinoccio’ as a billboard ?

[Daphne – It is a billboard already.]

Good point. And the timing of any right of reply could be critical, so it should be avoided with a ruling.

The reason which Labour gave for not attending this debate – including their argument that they never accepted to attend – should be examined legally to see whether they will be able to claim any other right.

I don’t think it’s divisive at all. The political parties are different. That’s why we have elections.

I just hope that Michael Briguglio does not play into Labour’s hands on the night.

Also I really think that once the MLP are invited and are declining the invitation, they should not be given the opportunity to claim the right of reply.

I can just see that happen with Joseph Muscat having a whole programme to himself without any opposition. The PN should get a ruling from the Broadcasting Authority in advance on this.

A fitting post. I have just updated the Pinocchio Index, which calculates the number and size of whoppers contributed by the major political parties.

Due to little Joey’s denial (or, ahem, lack of knowledge) of cocaine trafficking in Labour clubs, Labour’s index is now a remarkable 45% higher than the PN.

That’s one hell of a big nose.

Why does one have to think that blue and red are divisive?

Or better, when Labour’s in government, what extent of opposition is legitimate and by deduction, what’s to be outlawed?

A thesis can only hold when it’s tested to breaking point.

If Joseph insisted on appropriating both colours where is that expected to leave the PN?

Thank goodness for blue, it complements red.

Now if the message evolved, which it didn’t, this ‘blurred’ concept wouldn’t leave people so uneasy.

There will always be an opposition, the PN managing to create its own inhouse. How many times was the PN accused of being left of center, confessional, of the elite?

Simply because Joseph couldn’t get himself to fit the Labour party in opposition, doesn’t transfer him personally and automatically to government.

Appropriating the flag, George Cross and all is another blunder, especially if party is abandoned. It’s inherently totalitarian, whichever way you look at it.

I say his open fancy for everything Italian was another move, degenerate Irredentisti found a sympathetic leader there as well.

There’s a major discrepancy between his skills at verbal manipulation and visual semiotics. How come we haven’t seen any PN flags in his movement’s meets? No EU flags to speak of, no rainbow colours, no unions, just the national flag.

Yet he speaks with the PN’s program, sneaking his way into the party’s proposals taking Fenech’s efforts with stakeholders.

This isn’t doing away with the differences, it’s giving them up to Joseph Muscat. The question to ask is, if he doesn’t win the election, what happens to the movement?

Will the idea still exist, or will the delegates turn back to their core values? And that means values, not their personification.

One major clue was when Norman Vella asked Edward Scicluna how he voted in the referendum, it took him a deep breath to say he voted for membership.

If he’s a true socialist at heart, why doesn’t he provoke the movement openly and get his economic theories challenged on the public stage? Pure taboo.

Never was the country in need of change. At least we’ll get to decide and identify policies with two distinct parties.

It’s just that one of them can’t rid itself of the rot. The PN did, thoroughly, it took a whole legislature.

I’m blue, but I don’t mind red.

Must admit the blue and red faces billboard was not my favourite at first glance, as it shocked me as being divisory. But at second glance 24hrs later, I’m getting the YES blue/PN=work and PL’s face is RED not the 50 shades of blue being sported over the past weeks.

Prosit, Daphne for this blog. You highlight that which is not easily evident.

Do you actually believe that an intelligent person will base his vote on a billboard?

What happens is that you look at the billboard and either laugh or cry.

Intelligent people assess the political party’s track record and take an educated decision.

Yes, but now he is IN D.S.