Tidher ta certa eta’.

Biex tifhem sewwa arroganza, hdura u z-zerrieha tal-velenu u mibgheda – ma tistaghx ma tiftakarx iz-zmien ta MINTOFF u l-Partit Socjalista 1971 – 1986

“The world is filled with people who are looking for occasions to be offended.”

– Wayne Dyer

How true, in your case.

What percentage of the Maltese electorate are Slimiżi (current residents or natives) of voting age?

There is a Malta beyond the Sliema boundaries. The rest of us ‘li ma tafuhomx’ may well exert less influence in the corridors of power (on the plus side, our neighbourhoods have better sewage systems and I can live with that), but we couldn’t care less about the tal-pepè psyche. For in the voting room, your (sometimes feigned) affluence and social influence counts for jack shit.

And that is a fact, for good or for worse.

[Daphne – Slimizi have absolutely no influence in the corridors of power. I can’t be bothered to explain why, but H. P. Baxxter will no doubt rush in to do so, much better than I ever can. The point here is not that there are more Slimizi or that they have more influence or that their vote is worth more than yours. The point is that these are the very people Joseph Muscat wants and hasn’t got. If he had got them, he would have put the best examples, not the poorest (Kevin Drake and Kenneth ZT) on his advertising. Labour was, in fact, reduced to taking a working-class Mintoffian woman from Zejtun, dressing up her accent and posture, and presenting her to the electorate as a tal-pepe switcher: Ramona Frendo.]

That is so true. I read the polls and the statistics but I can’t help but think that they are totally misleading.

Too many PL supporters pretend to be ex-PN that the info showing the amount of switchers cannot be trusted.

There is no point in analysing them because they just aren’t all that true.

I think that’s what Muscat meant at his mass meeting/Isle of MTV concert “Surveys and numbers count for nothing”