No matter what ignorant people say. Simon is the ideal person to be at the helm steering the way for PN winning the next election.

Simon is enemy number 1 to Joseph. All his comrades in the MLP regime are also frightened of Simon’s facing Joseph in parliament or on television.

Not the forty thousand (their figure) over at Vivamalta though.

Focussed too. In British English.

Focused.

Let’s have a quick English lesson.

– my humble abode
– to eat humble pie
– the meek and humble
– a humble servant

In other words, humble is used when A is inferior to B, which de Marco certainly is not. Neither was Mrs Fenech Adami. The word we’re all looking for here is “dignified”, “unpretentious” at a pinch, “modest” for the latter.

Another of my pet gripes, and we can expect to see a lot of it following this leadership election, is “serious”. As in “we will be a serious opposition.” As opposed to a comic one? Try these: effective, active, focussed, worthy (of the people’s trust etc.), strong, unyielding.

[Daphne – There was nothing humble about that speech or his behaviour. ‘Humble’ is a much misunderstood and misused word in Malta. It does not share a meaning with ‘umli’. And in any case, Mario wasn’t ‘umli’. He was dignified and graceful, certainly not ‘humble’. I could write a post on how I can’t stand the way the word ‘humble’ is thrown about like praise and admiration in Malta, when in English it is anything but. It is a description of something insignificant, even demeaning, not something worthy.]

Indeed, PN can now look forward to a re-start with Simon who now has multiple challenges to face but who is also inheriting a party full of loyal people ready to assist to convince the electorate that PN is indeed the better choice after experiencing 5 years of this arrogant and amateurish lot.