@maryanne
That’s because Mark Montebello is as Labour as they come.

I would have thought that Mark Montebello woud have said something about this injustice perpetrated by Labour. He deals with enough drug addicts to know what the consequences of not reporting drugs are.

In fact. You are so very right. They should be concentrating on internal change. From top down.

We have been so forgiving and so accommodating that instead of maintaining our standards, there has been a general slipping of standards towards those favoured by PL perhaps as a result of pressure from those same PL expectations over the years.

Perhaps with a LP defeat, the demons of the past, the dinosaurs, the culture of state-dependent individual expectations and the brash arrogance will start to become history and no longer remain the live exposed nerve that it still is.

It would be interesting to observe the maturing of the electorate under a Nationalist Government over the next 5 years.

There are people such as Joseph who are neither here nor there (socially), who are neither young nor old, who are neither dumb nor intelligent, who have a twisted and prejudiced view of things, who simply say the wrong things all the time, fight for the wrong cause, bark up the wrong tree and consistently make the wrong decisions.

Malta’s electorate would finally mature under another NP term but regress irretrievably under Joseph & Co/ LP/ MLP.

It’s the crucial moment that ensures the ghosts are laid to rest and do not not ever attempt rise again from the ashes.

I’m looking forward to being able to give that live nerve its final root treatment session with my vote. Everyone voting NP would be throwing a shovel of dirt to finally bury that hateful damaging past, and its lying Mintoff puppet Joseph with it.

Thanks to all for putting things back into perspective for me.

and still.. and still.. he was voted into power… half of the electorate have a political blindfold.

I know that a number of youth will not believe – but then there are people who do not believe that the Holocaust occurred because they did not experience it themselves.

One should not take the number of contributions at face value. The content is more significant and when this provokes alarm bells, one should know which way to vote to counter the danger.

This is right. The Labour Party had two golden opportunities to change itself. Back in 1992 it preferred Sant to Spiteri and in 2008 Muscat to Abela.

In both cases everything was stage managed by the same people who are being mentioned in other comments and come from the Mintoff/KMB era so called golden days.

E-gi
When you see the comments board of the Times you will notice recurring names and the recitation of a mantra revolving around less jobs, destroyed economy, 500 increase in wages, poverty lines and electricity pricing.

It is a long and difficult week. I choose to believe that the Maltese aren’t stupid.

There are many things that Muscat has discounted that are working against MLP. Aside from the economics of it, the shrugging off of the ‘blokka silg’ episode as a mistake is enough to set many parents thinking.

I have significant reservations in entrusting my vote to someone who took it upon himself to decide whether a crime had been committed.

Muscat would have been more credible had he gone to the police immediately. To me it shows lack of respect for his own two girls. If he doesn’t have the courage to protect his own kids will he have the courage to protect my children? Where does he draw the line between career and fatherhood?

I would never ever do protect pushers even if it were to cost me my career. My cousin (and a few friends) died from drug overdose. I have friends in and out of rehab. One person is a living zombie who recognises none of his friends due to drug abuse. It is horrific and heart wrenching.

From my perspective, at least, the decision Muscat faced between reporting the incident to the authorities and keeping mum about it was a no brainer. Even if taken from his own pure self-interested opportunism he could have emerged better off had he gone to the police. That adds insult to injury: it shows he has absolutely no strategic foresight in his own affairs.

Take J Brincat, Eddy Privitera and Victor Laiviera, three expired MLP die-hards aznd denizens of timesofmalta.com, always complaining about everything.