Yes, Sir, I am a silent minority in the country, but a sizable minority on the centre-right. I am a Christian democrat conservative (CD in the European sense, Conservative in the British sense) who has been expunged and exiled from the Nationalist Party.

Why?

Because the pre-election and post-election approach has been pathetic. The PN has been more to the left than the PL on many social and national issues, which makes no sense. The Party is completely detached from its grassroots, which are the professional, traditional, conservative and middle classes, with a modicum of intelligence and a high regard for human and civil rights.

The PN will castrate itself in the same way as Cameron appears to have castrated the Tories, with gay marriage and all that nonsense. Let the socialists push their socialist agenda, don’t push a socialist agenda hoping to win the socialist vote, because, I repeat BECAUSE the right (or centre-right) will NEVER, I repeat, NEVER, acquire the leftist vote. The left everywhere is rotten, stinking, decadent and corrupt, abusive and repulsive.

And the PN has become repulsive to me. It is the PL with different colours in terms of policy.

Better the PN than the so-called PL anytime of course, but I am as comfortable in the PN today as I would be in the AD – that bunch of soft-headed idiotic clowns with left-leaning sympathies.

On the other hand to many, not only switchers but also those who refused to vote PN again, things are pretty much the same.

Ma setax Konrad Mizzi jsib kunsulent/a b’inqas remunerazzjoni u jiffranka lil kaxxa ta Malta ftit eluf sew? Flok Austen Walker dahhlu wiehed b’ferm inqas paga, anzi hafna u hafna inqas biex jiffrankaw, u kellna kaz fejn dahlu wkoll il-pulizija jahdmu ta waiters biex jiffrankaw, mela fejn iridu huma jiffrankaw?

I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree. Having a voice, in Malta, means being a household name and an opinion leader. How many of us are household names? There’s just you. And you’re not exactly an opinion leader, seeing as you’re loathed by half the population, and politely ignored by the other half.

Opinion leaders in Malta are of two types: the quacks/hamalli/crooks (Natius, Emmy Bezzina, Peppi Azzopardi…), or the god-fearing hand-wringing folk (Fr Joe Borg, Anthony Manduca, Alison Bezzina…)

My thoughts exactly, Conservative.

The party of Mizzi, Borg Olivier and Fenech Adami, reduced to having a “leader” with a child and her soft toy on his lap.

What’s next?

I agree, and I take it you’re one of us – the silent minority for whom and with whom the PN no longer speaks. They don’t want our vote. That’s how they come across.

[Daphne – We’re not very silent, though, are we.]

Totally against the Education Act – one cannot read for a full time course and at the same time hold a full time job.

Renewal for another year only. Families now only have two children