Yet their people are so gullible. They believe anything they tell them.

I am so glad you said that. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about that:

In his classic political science book, The Open Society and Its Enemies, volume I, The Spell of Plato, Karl Popper examined the application of the critical and rational methods of science to the problems of the open society.

In this respect, he made a crucial distinction between the principles of democratic social engineering (what he called “piecemeal social engineering”) and Utopian social engineering.

Popper wrote:

The piecemeal engineer will adopt the method of searching for, and fighting against, the greatest and most urgent evil of society, rather than searching for, and fighting for, its greatest ultimate good.[4]

According to Popper, the difference between “piecemeal social engineering” and “Utopian social engineering” is:

the difference between a reasonable method of improving the lot of man, and a method which, if really tried, may easily lead to an intolerable increase in human suffering. It is the difference between a method which can be applied at any moment, and a method whose advocacy may easily become a means of continually postponing action until a later date, when conditions are more favorable.

And it is also the difference between the only method of improving matters which has so far been really successful, at any time, and in any place, and a method which, wherever it has been tried, has led only to the use of violence in place of reason, and if not to its own abandonment, at any rate to that of its original blueprint.[4]

Another Maltese saying comes to mind: “il-qaħba milli jkollha ttik”.

Since they were constantly putting spokes in the previous Government’s wheels and to hell with the national interest, they think that the current opposition will act like them. Pathetic, immature, unscrupulous, power hungry, snide – one and all.

My father is right – Labour will never change and only fools expect them to (or think them capable of doing it).

Yes Baxx. It’s a self portrait.

Positive thinking is crucial for social engineering (wide spread philosophy in the USA and the UK).

In lay terms it’s called ‘dangling a carrot’.

Sibna hofra… daqshekk skejjel godda.

Oops sorry, no thank you… you dug your own ‘hofra’ by recruiting the largest cabinet in history and employing hundreds of Labour voters in the civil service for payback.

Il-Kumissarju taghna lkoll is adopting the taghna lkoll strategy… full of gloss hiding the load of crap.

The identikit portrait looks like something painted by Kenneth Zammit Tabona.

Did anybody call a press conference with the identikit of a “political murderer” who is still on the run after striking last Christmas?

good one