Erm, ok, let’s have it around the planet first.

Capital is concentration of resources, Malta’s the ideal size.

My colleague is experiencing the same reaction from 18 – 35 year olds.

I’m not sure why we speak of left and right in Malta. The PL is not a left-leaning party and the PN is not a right-leaning party.

The PL is a party which has no idea of what democracy is.

The PN is a centre left party that often veers too much to the left.

I am. Thanks for caring though. Just ‘liberal’ would do fine.

For your info, I have never voted neither AD nor Labour. I won’t go in the details of my ‘swing’ to AD as you seem convinced that a majoritarian democracy works better than a consensus one and you seem to know better than me what the popular vote translates to in a SMPS vs a STV electoral system.

And you also seem to forget that successful countries like Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc all have a multi-party system and coalitions.

[Daphne – That’s the way they started out. If you had to try to force a switch to a two-party oppositional system, it wouldn’t work and they wouldn’t want it. Do you see anyone complaining out loud that the two-party system in the United States is wrong or undemocratic or ‘majoritarian’? No, you don’t. And Britain, which had a coalition foisted upon it, will probably vote next time around to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen again. I’m curious, though – where did you get this idea that having many parties and a coalition government is somehow better than a government/opposition system and no coalition?]

Daph, I hope you don’t mind calling you that – but you’re going hysterical. Calm down, relax and let the people vote as they wish. I was going to vote just for AD because as I said, I prefer a consensus democracy rather than a majoritarian one, but to be honest, after having a chat with you, I’m convinced that I will be cross-party voting and for the first time I will be giving my ‘2’ to PL.

[Daphne – Hmmm. A liberal and progressive male AD/Labour voter calling a woman hysterical. So let me quote a famous Conservative: “Calm down, dear.”]

I’m in favour of a Tobin tax, but it seems I’m a member of a tiny minority in Malta. I’m also in favour of higher income tax for high income earners. Because I’m a capitalist, not an oligo-conservative.

But that’s beside the point. Briguglio is a true member of the Hubris Club.

Of course it is…..because it makes so much sense to run for a party which has never elected a seat in parliament and have the interest of the bigger party at heart…..yes makes perfect sense

‘ the foundations of the Greens are more left-wing oriented…’

Utter rubbish, Greens have their roots in esoteric Nazism.

They are to all intents and purposes, an outdated ideology, stripped of all support they had in the 90’s. Going for red is just textbook transformation to survive.

They’ve been the sole cause why Europe’s energy crisis is in the state it’s in, with their lobbying for technology which distorted research into the energy mix, and holding back the real renewable infinite resource.

The inverted snobbery and condescending patronage of the lifestyle is a measured factor why the technology and its products have been shunned.

I don’t drive a small car to make a statement, but because it’s inherently better. What I won’t ever be seen in, is a Noddy car with a Fisher Price interior.

Where was AD when Labour set out to destroy the transport reform?