When the Abelas came to the test they faltered badly.

I definitely agree that with hindsight nominating him as president was a grave mistake.

Agree entirely with you and he has his strategist by his side, who is trained in this game, who will help him all the way.

Shouldn’t the President be neutral?

Should the President be negatively judging the previous government all the way (even mentioning the €500 increase)?

Does the President know that by doing so he is insulting the 130,000+ people who voted for the previous government?

Shouldn’t the President respect every Maltese individual?

I thought that the President’s role was to “speak” about the manifesto of the newly appointed Government and not to throw a very bad light on the outgoing one.

Shame.

Not a lot. Just tune in to 101 Radio when there’s a phone in programme – all you hear is – the P.N. hurt me, MEPA was not fair with me, I got a fine for not paying my utilities bill, I got a traffic ticket and the minister, member of parliament, did not help me. The list is endless.

It seems as if the only worry for most Maltese is me, me and always me. That our country has a very low unemployment rate, our standard of living has risen, that we are members of the EU, doesn’t matter.

I’m seventy years old and throughout my life, for a lot of the population, all the good that P.N. governments achieved just fell like manna from heaven and not through good governance.

But then when a Labour government fouls everything up, it’s OK, the P.N. will be the one entrusted to remedy the situation.

Not enough. Even when they do see it, they will have so much personal ego invested into the scam with their words, opinions and actions that they will be psychologically trapped in their position.

It will take way more exposure to tip the balance.

The snake-oil artist knows this, but there will always be the greedy ready to take the place of anyone whose eyes suddenly see the scam for what it is, and is ready and confident enough to action himself out of that scam.

There are other ways of dealing with those who opt out.

The only difference is that they will have so many examples to chose from that they would be able to do a CNN with constant Breaking News.

I hope the Parliamentary questions start coming.

Probably as many who foresaw this happening. Few.

JM believes and practises that “every man has his price” – but in the rare event of his encountering somebody who can’t be bought or flattered into submission, he will use his “evil and massive Stalinist Super One machine and its satellites to search-and-destroy, assassinate characters, foment hatred and discord, spread negativity and start off lies and rumours.”

Simon has already had his share of that. And so have you. There are others – including, most obviously, Lawrence Gonzi.