[Daphne – Yes, Labour background through and through. Why do you think Labour didn’t object to her, and have left her in situ? They’ve removed others with merit and it wouldn’t have stopped them removing her too.]

Marlene Bonnici is a very capable woman and during the past legislature she held a very high position in government administration. When RCC was forced to resign from his position as Permanent Representative in Brussels, she was his natural successor and I guess Dr Gonzi recognized her merits and promoted her. He didn’t pass her over because she is a Labour supporter.

Which brings me to this sort of government we have now. In the first days of this government, when our dear PM took the decision to keep keep Marlene Bonnici on, I thought, oh well, it’s not all doom ‘n gloom, this government seems to be practising its mantras on meritocracy.

Of course, at the time I also thought that Marlene was a Nationalist. Dear God I’m so angry at myself.

I’m cursing myself for ever doubting Dr Gonzi’s government as being meritocratic. I’m also cursing Labour for ever putting me in doubt and making me vote PN in a halfhearted manner.

Dear God, whatever election is next I will gladly vote PN with all my heart.

They will bag Ivan just like they did to Lou.

Totally disgraceful. It is being proven with every passing day that all the preparation went into the electoral campaign, but no preparation whatsoever for governing the country.

Not that it comes as any surprise. To me it was obvious from the start, my surprise is still the thousands having been fooled.

His mother should apologise for shagging his father.

Labour MP Silvio Schembri was welcomed by a not very complementary comment – ‘BUZZ OFF MORON’ – in the on-line edition of The Malta Independent.

Three short words, but they say so much – the lot, in fact.

The PN should just totally ignore this news item.

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-06-26/news/labour-mp-asks-pn-to-apologise-for-raising-energy-tariffs-1916207105/

What else do they want an apology for? For getting Malta into the EU? For allowing the economy to stay afloat while larger ones floundered?

They will not resign.

On the other hand, they are now resigned to the fact that the PL in government is not competent for the job and that bad decisions will be the norm rather than the exception.

The first very bad decision was to appoint someone with little or no knowledge of the Civil Service as its head. (Apart from that, he does not seem to be a particularly bright individual.) Most of his time is spent trying to understand what’s it’s all about.

The second very bad decision was to force all permanent secretaries to resign. (Government redeemed itself a little by reappointing two of them). By removing most of them at one go, it was impossible to maintain the momentum of the past legislature because the information, knowledge and experience of key people was lost overnight.