I see you and I understand each other. Especially the bit about being labelled a Laburist just because you criticise Gonzi.

Lawrence Gonzi built an extremely dangerous environment around him, where loyalty was equated with fawning praise, sometimes to the detriment of the truth. Anything else and you were a Labour voter. Or worse, anti-patriotic.

I’m glad he’s gone. Simon Busuttil may have many faults but he is not seen as the Messiah by the grassroots and the party hierarchy. Good. There are no Salvaturi in politics. It’s hard, sheer, bloody graft all the way. It’s bad enough that we have political dynastic families (the Demarcos, the Mifsud Bonnicis and the Fenech Adamis).

Not me, Baxxter. I have not had anything nice to say about Gonzi since 2005 and have definitely made lots of negative comments since my return to Malta in 2007 when a downhill trend was already clearly visible and soon to be evidenced in 2008.

Although I voted PN in 2008 and in 2013, I did so only out of a sense of self preservation, knowing that Malta would be in better hands under their stewardship. Better hands, does not mean good hands, it simply implies that I preferred the lesser of two evils.

At reunions with family or friends, most of whom are staunch Nationalist, I was often called ungrateful and accused of taking the PN and Lawrence Gonzi for granted. Some even believed that my dislike for Gonzi even meant that I would be voting Labour.

Truth be said, Gonzi was the better replacement for Fenech Adami, who was a great leader in the face of political adversity, but was past his due date in 2004. Again, better implies that he was the lesser of the two evils (think Dalli evil as the other alternative) and definitely, the only ace up the PN’s sleeve at the time.

However, since Malta’s accession to the EU, Gonzi failed to do anything other than administer the benefits of EU membership. And for all the benefits that were indeed administered, that is the point, at which the PN lost its real political raison d’etre and became a caretaker.

It rested on its laurels, boasted about the ‘certificates’ that it was receiving, stopped looking after itself, its people, the electorate, and it lost the plot. It’s been downhill for them ever since. Ever since 2008, the 2013 results were a dead cert, and Gonzi did nothing to change that.

You’re wrong. Xarabank is Labour’s greatest asset. Peppi Azzopardi finished the idiotification that Mintoff started. As long as there’s Xarabank, there will be idiocracy, and Labour will be the natural majority party.

I dunno. Ask Lawrence Gonzi. You people were always praising him to high heaven and look what the party’s come to.

Le, jibqa’ li johorgu nies mejtin mid-depot.

Don’t be deceived. Labour will not knock off all the programs of Where’s Everybody. Not in one go at least. All in harmony with their pseudo liberal policy.

They do it just the same but gradually and over time.

Screw Where’s Everybody. What I really want to know is where is the PN?

If they do not make themselves heard now, then they may forever stay silent as far as I am concerned.

Mr Loporto, the police did not think that a crime was committed.

Someone else decided so and alerted the police. And the police in all their wisdom proceeded to arrest Mr Vella. How about someone inventing something against you and you find the police knocking on your door and arresting you?