[Daphne – I’ll add a third reason: rewards are only payable to those who went public, because of the value to the Labour Party of all the advertising and the knock-on effect.]

You`re so right. They put on this air of intellect but we can all see through their acting…they are just a couple of arse-licking wannabes.

That’s easy Andreas.

If your ideology is different, either vote for one of the other parties (there were about four more apart from PL and PN) or start your own party.

If The Pirates can do it in Germany, Beppe Grillo can do it in Italy and a nut-job like Norman Lowell can do it in Malta, then you can do it too.

If you think setting up a party is too taxing, then publish a book, start a blog, write articles and letters in newspapers and do anything possible to get your voice heard and your innovative viewpoint across.

If you can’t even be bothered to do that (and if you can’t then your innovative ideology is not worth that much to you anyway), vote for the least worst party regardless.

In life, you cannot escape being labelled but you CAN choose your own labelling.

That’s your label, so enjoy it.

You can be proud of all the farcical moves (of which we have plenty yet to witness) made by this administration, because you are part of it.

Matthew, great post!

Yes. We’re waiting for him to move in so we can all turn up for one his candlelight suppers.

Or Anthony Licari’s.

Energy is work, opera, every sculpted piece finding its way into imagination. Waft waft.

No wonder he confuses overwrought decadence with rigorous proportion.

Have some tea with Mussolini.