Totally agree with your last sentence. When I commented that the PN should make a PQ regarding salaries of chairmen, public servants, etc. I was told by someone commenting often on this blog that I can go into the link and ask the question myself. Hopefully I misunderstood him.

Actually I should have written speaker with a capital “S”. Speaker of the house is what I meant. But yes, Glenda Jackson is a terrific person too.

I sincerely wish that the new PN leader will make the conscious decision NOT to be accommodating and compromising.

That a leadership style is identified from what it is, was and should be, and that that the expectation is for that style to be the new standard that many of the inner NP themselves need to arrive at.

Expecting only those within the strict confines of the Party to have a perfect grasp of this, is rather limited.

Hear, hear!

He can speak, but his body language speaks even louder. He is incredibly pompous, and he does little to hide his disdain for the Tory benches, where he came from.

His wife is a failed Labour candidate and his politics have shifted from the grandee aristocratic right wing of the Tory party to Labour leaning in no time at all. In other words he is Britain’s version of JPO. Fih daqs tapp ukoll.

First to get it would be Joseph, ten minutes late for the first debate on the budget last Monday.

[Daphne – Fines, deduction of pay, all undemocratic. You can’t oblige MPs to be in the House unless they’re voting with the whip. It’s not a ‘job’. It’s up to their constituents to vote them up if they’re not happy with their performance.]

Bercow doesn’t say Erksin Mey.

Too bad for those under thirties. Robert Redford IS a superb actor. loved his roles. ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ anyone?

And now, with his Sundance Film Festival, even more renowned.

Glenda Jackson, a classic actress.

Malta’s Laburisti think Daphne is in the employ of the PN.

[Daphne – Yes, including the Marsa Club Laburisti and various assorted pigeon-brains, I’m afraid. “Maaaa, as if, don’t you know! She’s paid by the Nationalists, ayyy! U mela! Mela why does she do it otherwise, come on! U ejja as if, don’t tell me it isn’t true.” Xi dwejjaq ta’ nies. Suffocating.]

In fact she is despised by higher echelons of the Nationalist Party precisely for the reasons you mentioned. In the end, even Nationalist politicians are Maltese, and they too embrace the Maltese code of silence, facades and duplicity in public life.

If the new leader wishes to bring about change, here’s exactly where he should start. No more lies. No more fakery. No more rewriting history. Labour is the majority party because it won the battle of ideas. It wrote Malta’s history books. It wrote the national mythology. Labour doesn’t do politics, it controls ideas. That’s cognitive warfare, my dear naive PN lawyers. Labour is what Nazism would have been, had it been born in Malta.