Since this is happening on a claim to a mandate, the logical thing to do would be to have enough instances shown up which are not part of that mandate and thereby institute a challenge to the mandate, hopefully before the five years are up or the constitution has been changed.

The strategy being used is to create so many of these instances, that no sooner has one been exposed, another is on the horizon. What actually happens to the issues other than a cemetery of still active and ongoing issues?

The confusion is so designed for the focus to be lost.

Totally spot on.

If I could add an extension to this last line:

“First they invented the problem, then they made you believe it, then they told you that they can solve it for you.”

The only way that it could have worked completely was:

Psychologically, the tactics entailed the need to first get people to think in this mode/frequency of thinking – or to reduce an operation to that game – and only then was the strike made possible.

In opposition they actually voted against the same budget proposal which they adopted when in Government – how’s that for negativity and obstructionism.

Whores.

Criticism, however valid it may be, is immediately avoided rather than refuted in a logical manner, as one would expect from a supposedly democratic government, in a supposedly civilised, European nation.

Joseph Muscat has set us on a very slippery slope here. If this keeps up, we might very well bear witness to Malta’s devolution from a democracy into a tyranny of the majority.

You left out the one about the PN isolating themselves.

“learned_nothing.dot, negative.dot and isolated.dot” are the Word templates.

The devastating effect it had before the last election is dying out by the second and in a few weeks it will haunt the bully himself.