I put it rather differently.

At least the former, regardless of how deranged they are, will never be in government.

@ Ms Astrid Vella

Ms Vella, since you won the unofficial Moaner of the Year Award for several consecutive years (congratulations) it is only fair that you should be considered emblematic of a certain type of political myopia that has brought the country to its present situation.

Nobody is saying that you should not have criticised the PN government – God knows they committed enough blunders – but you should also have realised that the PL would be much worse. As we are finding out.

In case it escaped your notice, voting out the PN and voting in josephmuscat.com were two sides of the same coin.

The honourable thing for you is to acknowledge your, at best, naiveté and admit that you made a serious error of judgement. Blaming GonziPN for your own mistakes is exactly what Joseph Muscat does so you’re in good company there.

Or simply for having been elected to government three times in a row?

Such fallacious reasoning betrays democratic immaturity. Elections are not held to send parties into and out of power, but to give direction to the country. But understanding this is not at all automatic.

If one good thing is coming out of having the Mafia back in power it is that the wannabe journalists, phoney liberals, pretend meritocrats and — even worse — the new ‘Laburisti’ are being revealed for what they are – non compos mentis.

Mia grandissima colpa indeed!

Still I would prefer to vote AD than PL any day. At least the former, regardless of how deranged they are, actually have good intentions.

It-tajba hi li ħadd minn dawk li naf jien għadu ma ħa xejn. Mhux bħaċ-ċrieki taċ-ċrieki laburisti. Ara dawk jgħoddsu fix-xgħir qegħdin…u aħna nħallsu.

The poor things won’t even be able to see their town for the cranes.

Then there’s turning back the clock in Valletta, an extra storey everywhere, UNESCO be damned, cars spilling back onto the centre and artists left to rot

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-11-10/news/government-reverses-move-of-national-museum-of-fine-arts-to-auberge-ditalie-3139272704/

Suckers. What else did you expect?

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On the other hand, we had labour, a party oblivious on how best to govern, dishing out much of the same appeal and candidates and hiding behind false pretences.

Taking the reduction (which excludes the meter rents) in electricity and water tariffs as an example, we’ve been inundated with plans, roadmaps, percentages. The reduction of 10% or thereabouts after eco-subsidy (35%/25% for brackets 1 and 2 respectively is one big disgusting lie) will mainly be due to the interconnector and BWSC projects, both implemented by the previous administration.

The country never needed change; we were never facing economic catastrophe. Yet Labour’s Nazi-like propaganda machine laid the bait and successfully trounced the NP. A perverse result when compared to the slim majority won in 1987.

The way Labour pushed forward with the citizenship amendments without being challenged by society casts a shadow of doubt on us Maltese, on our values, priorities and cultural background. The mantra nowadays is “I couldn’t be bothered if it doesn’t affect me personally”.

We’re a society within a pool of societies. Get the majority of these on your side and you win an election, it’s that simple.

This will never change because like cancer it is extremely difficult to eradicate and anybody who believes otherwise is shorn of any historical knowledge.

So, no Mrs Hansen and anybody who followed a similar path, it was not the right decision to vote Labour because of the ‘PN’s many shortcomings’. As a seasoned journalist you should have known that:

‘………………… ‘tis strange :
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.’ (Banquo in ‘Macbeth’)

It is, however, good for one to acknowledge one’s mistakes; everybody makes them and redemption is one way towards recovery.