You should get in touch with Ray Bugeja. He’d understand, or I’m mistaken.

@H.P. Baxxter
It’d be my pleasure, H.P.
I suggest the first commitment in the manifesto will be to reduce parliament to 51 members.

In his youth, Alfred Sant was the lead singer of Whitesnake. It’s true. I read it in Dominic Fenech’s book.

You and I need to have a long chat over cocktails. Then we can write the Economic Liberals’ Manifesto For Malta.

I’m sick and tired of hearing how hard the PL will find it to govern Malta well and how bad their track record will be.

Let’s get one thing straight – Malta is not difficult to govern well. That the PN found it so hard to govern and in fact did only a mediocre job of it is due to their fear of losing power.

This in turn led to unsustainable largesse with the taxpayers’ money – unsustainable pensions, education and health system and a policy of appeasement towards backstabbing self-seekers using the party for their own selfish purposes.

The PL will in turn do a bad job because it owes so many favours that everyone and his dog will be taking the opportunity to siphon off as much as possible whilst the going is good.

We already have a bloated cabinet supported by wives, cousins, daughters and various hangers-on as civil servants and consultants.

So the bottom line is Malta will continue to be a nation of working poor, with a beleaguered middle class supporting a lazy civil service/administration inflated for political reasons and the many scroungers the PL attracts so successfully.

But I repeat: Malta is not difficult to govern well, especially with EU funds being thrown at us like confetti.

The problem is that no party has ever really had the willpower to do it.

We poured billions down the drain to artificially prolong the life of the Drydocks and hundreds of millions more to keep Air Malta flying long after the liberalization of aviation made its grossly inflated staff complement a huge burden on the taxpayer.

There are many other examples of terrible management of the country, by both parties, especially the PL.

But I insist – Malta isn’t, or more correctly, shouldn’t be, difficult to govern at all.

I hope Mr. Scicluna will not be the dissenting voice of Din l-Art Helwa when a project with environmental ramifications are discussed.

Trepified mortification?

I guess that in a few years, they will add one more spin and spread the propoganda that the PN actually campaigned against the EU and thanks to the MLP, we joined the EU. Given the level of sophistication of the Maltese electorate, people will actually believe this kind of crap.