Her intentions may be good and noble, but I still believe she has been out of touch and away from Malta for too long. I am pretty sure her image of Malta is the one fed to her by her father.

She “grew up in an atmosphere where the poor were not just respected, but seen as the salt of the earth”, I wonder how this was possible considering she was sent away to the UK, probably to get her away from the miserable situation in Malta and perhaps shield her from her father’s governing style. She has no idea.

One last thing, wouldn’t this be the work of exisiting agencies such as Appogg, Caritas, etc? Why the increased bureaucracy? Would it not have been better to provide more resources to these organisations?

For billboards?

Hardly. We’re four months into a five-year campaign. It won’t do to squander the PN’s meagre resources this early on.

The next skirmish will be the European Parliament elections. That’s what they must focus on.

I predict the usual list of assorted candidates: lawyer bimbos aiming for a quick buck, professors close to retirement aiming to supplement their pension, political has-beens yearning for a cushy comeback, MZPN types still wet behind the ears, and of course, the current crop of bumbling MEPs.

We need a Carmen Kass candidate to liven up the show. Almost got elected, that one. They even gave her fake spectacles to make her look intellectual. Plays a mean game of chess though.

That’s one department where I would gladly “lend a hand” to the PN.

My bad, sorry.

The Maltese have incredibly short memories. If you just ignore something, it will soon be pushed off the front page by some trivial human interest story. Besides which, there’s a four-month political hiatus in summer, punctuated only by the usual columnists starting their sorry pieces with something about “the long, hot summer”.

You mean the money has dried up?

Children, children, please!

If there are financial problems it’s not going to be their first obvious priority. Though they could set up a system whereby specific little projects receive donations.

They could perhaps implement this immediately.

If I looked around the country and heard the deafening silence in spite of all that is going on, I would be stunned too.

The answer to everything is either ‘storm in a teacup’ (i.e. not important), a witch hunt (i.e. fabricated) or no addressed (i.e. dying a natural death with no explanation or justification), would anyone have imagined that we have turned into a nation of suckers for punishment and erosion of rights? I thought I would never see the day when The Times would be in the state it is to-day but I guess I should have known never to say never.

The marketing machine at work is unlike anything we have ever seen. One is not just promoting one’s product but obliterating the competition. Anyone knows that this only happens when the resources on one side far, far exceed those of the other side.