Neither PN nor PL want to touch certain issues, AD would bring these issues on the national agenda.

Anyway, if PL are in government why not have AD there too to disrupt them.

Ridiculous. If they get into parliament it’ll be by a small number of votes and they will use their influence accordingly, as they have plainly said. It would not be in their interest to ‘bring down’ the government, that is simply fear mongering.

[Daphne – It wasn’t in Jeffrey’s or Franco’s interest, either, and in fact they both kept going right until the end of the legislature, precisely because of the reasons you give. But bringing down the government isn’t what it’s about. It’s the insufferable behaviour in between.]

Yes they do need to be in parliament to be listened to. As they are, no one takes them seriously and many of the important issues they care about are not given the importance they deserve.

Again there is no way they’d expect the parties to simply obey them, it’s not in their interest and simply would not happen.

[Daphne – Really? How do you know? Remember that you’re talking to somebody who voted for Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. You never know what a person really is until it comes to the crunch, though it’s true I should have read the signs.]

Bubu, I am not disputing the obvious fact that AD is leftist. I also did not even mention heavy taxation. My point was that, contrary to what Wayne Hewitt seems to be implying, progressive taxation is not necessarily communist.

And now that you mention it, the fact that US society is “one of the most unequal in the world” despite having the most progressive taxation in the world, is further proof that progressive taxation is not necessarily communist. A purely communist state (which is never possible in practice) would require economic equality and would abolish class altogether.

I’m arguing for facts, and not for any particular policy.

MLP has been in opposition since 1998. They are as arrogant as ever.

The problem with PN isn’t arrogance, but pandering to wrong sorts of people (to Laburisti, social leeches, the lower classes and the unproductive).

Just watched TVHemm, Marthese Portelli, an Alex Sciberras from Labour and one of the twins from Alternattiva.

Both AD and Labour have issues with the drydocks.

If it were for AD, the PN should have tried harder until today. As if privatisation didn’t provide a feasible solution.

What’s wrong with these people?, are they for the protection of subsidised categories? Like all good lefties, they don’t distinguish between a job and work.

The same fellow seems to think that forming part of a team in charge of roadworks, maintenance and the quality required isn’t dignified enough.

I’ve done all sorts of stuff, It was crucial to understand what other people’s jobs are.

Why do I get the feeling that both AD and Labour are only interested in having their role justified?

Fine, let’s have AD go after Labour then.

To rub salt in the wound this people have children and are happy to betrays their children’s future to put a charlatan as prime minister.

Oh thin air. At first glance I though you wrote THIN HAIR.

And I wouldn’t mind it raining Mars bars and Snickers, as long as they are calorie free.

They argue that low income earners will not benefit.

I am very disappointed. The middle class has been for years paying taxes to subsidise so called low income earners, subsidising their housing, their utility bills and everything on earth. A good part of these income tax earners are trades such as kahhala who declare only a minimum amount of their earnings in order to still benefit from maximum childrens allowance, utility rebates, housing and other social services

Tonio Fenech, rightly so, was the only finance minister to introduce measures in favour of middle class by reintroducing childrens allowance for all families and yearly increase in childrens allowance rate, by yearly increasing tax rebate for children attending private schools and childcare centres, by every year deceasing rate of income tax, by introducing a one year tax free salary for mothers returning after having a baby. At last middle class families are getting back part of the taxes they have been paying for others for years.

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