Very well said, my friend Twanny.

I’m not into all this “Malta kollha tirbah” bullshit.

It’s just a question of choosing between the party that got me into Europe, and the party that tried to keep me out.

And so it shall be, until forever. MLP raped (to use a Maltese expression) what should have been the best years of my life. Fuck them.

If you really despise the PN candidates let them know that on the ballot paper by numbering them in your personal order of contempt.

[Daphne – Sigh. Nobody’s talking theft. I’m talking strategic voting. When you vote, you vote to choose the government. Why else bother? That’s what it’s about: choosing the government. So you choose the government. People who vote AD are saying, loudly and clearly, that their head is so far up their arse they can’t see daylight and don’t give a damn who’s running the country. If they gave a damn, they wouldn’t be voting AD. They’d be voting PN or Labour. Now here’s the thing: that’s not really true. Most people who are talking about voting AD actually do care who gets to run the country. They prefer PN to Labour. And that is the only reason why AD has built its marketing message on coalitions and ‘casting votes’. They are presenting themselves in a sort of ‘government vacuum’. But there IS going to be a government: Labour. The more people vote AD – because they are all being drained from the ‘PN market’ while the Labour market remains monolithic – the greater the number of seats for Labour.]

[Daphne – You are quite, quite wrong, Maria. I am possibly one of the best-known examples of somebody whose vote is entirely unconnected to family tradition and based purely on a sensible, rational choice.]

The big difference between these two eras is that the politicians of the 60s are long gone but the culprits of the late 1970s and 1980s are still very much alive and probably will be voted back in power next week.

I think the Maltese have really taken Fifty Shades of Grey to theirs hearts.

[Daphne – There is a more significant difference and important point to be made: Labour’s problems in the 1960s had absolutely nothing to do with the Nationalist Party. They were at war with the Catholic Church.]

And if you can’t decide which Labour candidate you prefer, you don’t have to choose – just put 1 next to each of them.

Il-PL jista’ jirbah jekk ikun hawn hafna li jridu jippruvaw jigri x’jigri wara.

Kif se jivvota l-poplu irridu naraw dak inhar sorprizi jista’ jkun hemm ukoll.

Haga zgur li jkun ghamel zball. Min illum qed jilghabha tal-haruf jekk ikun fil-gvern juri snienu. Ahjar kif ahna ghax lura nistu mmorru. Zgur ma irridx nghid it-tort tieghi allura ma nissugrax u nivvota PN.