Can’t you see the logic behind snuffing out the eternal flame during daytime? It is the only way for Malta to cope with the EDP and the boost to the economy!

In any case we will soon be lighting candles at home to save on the even cheaper electricity bills….so get used to lighting fires at night, watch the flame and meditate on EDP.

Some sort of physiological angst that has not been fulfilled and is taken out on this sacrificial and manly symbology (to be politically incorrect) of serving, honour, sacrifice, pain and death.

Plus I suspiciously suspect that Joseph Muscat’s idea of nationhood is of the new world order variety, where it does not exist anymore and is down played and degraded at all opportunities.

I doubt that even in Dom Mintoff’s heyday that this ridiculous and shameful stunt would be attempted as back in the 1950s 60s and 70s, as people were not one generation removed from the experience of the horrors of war regardless of political stripe.

There are some things in life that have to be done regardless of expense and trouble, and we have all been through that in our lives, especially if you have married and raised a family.

And honouring our war dead is definitely one of those things.

No price too high for that, because it’s the least we can do.

True, you need an empty brain and then repeat the mantra: Naghtu cans lil Joseph.

I would say we need an outright miracle – like the one that helped Malta sort of survive between June 1971 and May 1987.

Perhaps I should clarify the term ‘barrani’, as I understand there are some readers who are relatively new to the Maltese scene.

‘Barrani’ refers to the decent European or NATO type of individual or organisation, such as the EU. Think Mintoff, KMB, Alfred Sant and Joseph. I don’t remember if it was actually the first thing Sant did, but he certainly knobbled our application to join the EU.

‘Barrani’ does not refer to types like Gadaafi and the North Korean leadership. No sir, these are not ‘barranin’. These are our blood brothers and cherished allies.

Eternal flame: An eternal flame is a flame, lamp or torch that burns continuously for an indefinite period.

Labour’s interpretation includes an ON-OFF switch activated every 12 hours! It matches perfectly with their policies which seem to be on one day and reversed the next.

meritocracy: rewarding people who featured onPL billboard or under Labour tent, praising Joseph

veteran: an elderly person like Joe Debono Grech

lapel poppy: just another corsage

aesthetically pleasing: a market beneath a Piano masterpiece