I think we read too much into this propaganda, and look for anything to help us make it true. Most people who enjoy pointing fingers at supporters from one party already know who they’re going to vote for.

I for one listened to this debate because I’m not convinced by anyone.

Come on, rigged? Is it because Toni Abela is their lawyer? Is it because they never took sides in Dalligate and the oil scandal?

Go tell it to the marines!!!!

Smell the coffee!!!

LOL!!!

I’m gonna stop with the personal arguments because its no use with you I don’t blame you .. you don’t have the facts… and yes I’m 18 … and yes at 18 you should probably have started to acknowledge problems that I too have to face in the future. I, like many others was given a vote and I have to see to whom I shall give my trust. Not based on the past, now I have to say it because we mentioned the past alot but hello it’s the present and following Labour through this campaign I;m sorry for you to say, I’m into change and taking risks, Labour gave me the best vision of thhe next five years to come.

thank you and Goodnight

[Daphne – Your parents made your mind up for you, Reuben. Perhaps when some years go by, you’ll be lucky enough to work that out and do something about it.]

I don’t mind ,you don’t matter! That’s Joseph.

When Labour was in power the students were not certain whether their courses would continue when the college reopened after the summer holidays. They didn’t know whether the City & Guilds exams would be held, and catering students found out that all their catering equipment, which the Nationalist government had bought for them, had been taken to the hurriedly repaired Mediterranean Conference Centre.

Labour never built a single school and worse still, it sold the Teachers Training College at Ta’ Giorni to the Libyans.

In the Labour years, one would have been privilged to go to the Tal-Handaq “New’ lyceum which consisted of old barracks and Nissen huts made of corrugated iron.

How can anyone dare trust Labour with our education?

you keep on insisting don’t you ! do I have to go that personal to explain! I didn’t say my grandfather owned the school! he was it’s first headmaster he was given the job to take secondary level schools to new heights and he alone was given the consent to make this happen and make junior lyceums as good as church schools which he did and my dear Daphne No-one fed me this information. It’s in newspapers! …. now stop this argument !

[Daphne – Headmaster, was he? You do him proud.]

Now my dad, is an accountant yes at a bank! and yes as I told you before the couldn’t be promoted and don’t tell me it doesn’t exist anymore because now my dad is in his 50’s and to it’s hard to get promoted as younger people are always preferred but when he was at a good age they still wouldn’t let him because of his political views! and my uncle went through the same thing, these are his words not mine and I trust their honesty!

[Daphne – Oh, I doubt very much that he’s not promoted because he’s a Laburist. There are people who work in very senior positions at HSBC who have Labour emblems plastered all over Facebook, for instance. There must be some other problem. In any case, if he really is an accountant, he should have struck out on his own or joined one of the consulting firms, instead of hanging around at the same bank, complaining. He has nobody to blame but himself. Don’t adopt his attitude. Learn from it and do differently.]

and also i didn’t refer to any of you about Madliena, just made a point! As I told you the last 8 years were just a down scaling nightmare!

[Daphne – Really, what did you downscale? I’m curious. When I was 18 I hadn’t a clue how a house was run, how bills were paid or what was being down or upscaled. I had no interest. And 1983 was no picnic, I assure you. Shouldn’t you be chasing girls instead of worrying about the groceries?]

I think that The Prophecy is rather young and believes blindfolded whatever he is told. Sorry, stipends were introduced by the PN.

referring to the first secondary school. I meant PM Mintoff at that time gave him consent to open the first Junior Lyceum in Malta M.A Vassalli to be exact at tal Handaq… now known as St.Ignatius College.

[Daphne – Mintoff gave WHO ‘consent’ to open the first Junior Lyceum in Malta? Junior lyceums were always set up and run by the state, never by private individuals. You really, really don’t know what you’re talking about. And the first Lyceum predates Mintoff by generations. Your parents have fed you too much drivel.]

That cleared, Neil shut up! Your argument is only English! Go get a teaching job for God’s sake! back to the argument, my dad is an accountant… thank god he knows more accounts than you do!

[Daphne – Strange that I find it so hard to believe your father is an accountant. Your mother wouldn’t be crying in corners about being unable to make ends meet if he were, Reuben. But then I don’t believe that either.]

[Daphne – Really, who sent him away? Mintoff? He did a lot of that. Maybe they left because they wanted to – did that ever occur to you? Nobody discriminates against people because of their political beliefs anymore. They must have had some other problem. But children don’t get told everything by their parents so you’ll have to find out for yourself.]

does this had to happen just because we come from a Labour family we cannot advance in our work positions?! I’ll vote for DrMuscat because I look forward to seeking equality in this country and stop partisan-ism.

[Daphne – You already have equality, Reuben. You just don’t know what to do with it.]

To seek a change is no sin, it’s a risk and at this state I hope our country takes it. I see what people around are going through and I have to say, it doesn’t look good. Maybe it does from a villa in Madliena hills, but there are other citizens in bad situations that’s where a new government should act! thank you for your time and please to the others just a gentle opinion, cut the personal attacks you’ll make more sense!

[Daphne – Actually it looks worse from a villa in the Madliena hills (where, incidentally, I don’t live), because those are generally the people employing others and worried like hell about what’s to come. I know one person who lives in the Madliena hills, though, who’s paying for part of Labour’s campaign. Not because he cares for the suffering working-class, but because he thinks his brothers got more business under this government than he was naturally entitled to.]

Tajba. LIKE
one of the best comments to perfectly describe the situation we are experiencing today.

I don’t know who you mean. They all wear black gowns at official ceremonies, don’t they? And quite a few of them bemoan the lack of funding.

If you’re a member of the UOM’s academic staff, and it would seem you are, you know what to do. Stop straddling the fence and grow a spine.