With that unprecedented absolute majority the people gave to the Socialist party, the future political scenario will put enormous strains on democracy. People, unwittingly, handed this weird movement carte blanche to manipulate Malta.

Serves them right indeed. Ma nixtieq deni lil hadd imma ha nghidlek, hallihom ha jiehdu.

The most common reason I was given by a few of my ‘Nationalist’ aquaintances for voting Labour this time around is ‘minhabba l-korruzzjoni’.

Tajjeb ukoll.

They do not give a damn that their country’s finances are stable, unemployment is low and the economy is in a very good state. L-aqwa li nbiddlu l-gvern ghax ‘dejjaqni wicc Gonzi’ (raguni ohra tan-nejk li smajt).

These should become a stronger tool, voicing a modern and stimulating means of entertainment and clear news to a diverse mix of viewers from switchers to PL supporters, young and old.

The PN media currently scream out ‘boring’.

No, it is a sign of Malta was already taghna ilkoll. It was only the incompetent were being put in their place. Obviously in a very forgiving society the incompetent expect to get it as good as much as the competent.

In short, tolerance of mediocrity always comes back to slap you in the face. Management lesson number one which Gonzi might have forgotten.

The PN must distance itself from the Labour government and from Joseph Muscat’s call for working together. It is normal that in the first few days after the elections the government calls for working together (it helps a smooth transition), but just look at the first few decisions taken in Castille and it is already amply clear that it’s ‘vote Labour and get Labour.’

Cooperation should be extended to the government where necessary and within the normal exercise of the separation of powers of government and opposition.

Let us not forget that it was Joseph Muscat who proudly told Lawrence Gonzi that “il-pairing jista’ jinsieh” when the PN government had only a 1-seat majority. A friend in need, is a friend indeed. Back then, Joseph Muscat showed no signs of friendship.

The PN has a lot of work to do within its party. It has done enough in government, against all odds, including the continuous torpedoing by the MLP of Joseph Muscat and his best friends, Frankie, Jeff and Jes.

The Labour party has now won a clear mandate to govern, and it is its turn and duty to do so. It has to deliver on its promises, and must be held to account on all of those promises. And since Labour had all its promises “kostid”, then it must deliver within the budget.

The PN’s duty is to hold the MLP to account, not to help it wreak havoc on all of us.

There, the PN has its own rowtmepp now.

Most of them don’t care because they voted out of spite.

They weren’t part of the klikka.

The most common phrase I heard from people who abstained or voted Labour, some of them after voting PN all their lives, who lived and literally fought through the 80s (don’t ask, my mind boggles) was:

‘Ġbajt nara l-istess nies jibilghu’.

I guess it would have been okay if they were the ones ‘jibilgħu’ but since they weren’t, they stuck it to them.

Exactly like Franco when he said ‘Hu go fik’.

I guess it’s okay now that the other guys are ‘jibilgħu’, but they’re still getting nothing, makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?

Actually some of them in the civil services are worse off because, although they abstained or voted Labour, they’re still known as Nationalists and are getting the bum’s rap when it comes to overtime. Serves them bloody right.

@ Not only has infiltration been deep in the media, but also in every major institution, starting from Labour employees in every ministry, sometimes at high rank, to the civil service and other government bodies.

Couldn’t that be a sign of insecurity? If so only God knows what’s in store for us.

Cruising around Jupiter?

Behold the new ‘klikka’, il-hbieb tal-hbieb…(was Alfred Sant the one who was always repeating that?).