But that’s it really, he can’t both govern and seek re-election, he said so himself.

Decisions tend to be hard for someone who never made a clear choice.

Remember how he intervened when Marsaxlokk was torn apart, saying he’ll consider the pipeline or when he announced the free vote even though Labour as a party was for divorce.

He just won’t make a step forward, unless his calculations correspond. He’ll bring government to a halt, just like Italy’s obsession with concertazione, literally decisions involving every player like an orchestra, which song sheet is never agreed upon.

Labour is the perfect campaigning machine. That’s why it’s a complete shambles when it has to go from that to governing. A referendum would play straight into their hands.

You sound like Peter Serracino Inglott, who for forty years fantasised about a technology-driven milk and honey utopia of kind, happy, fulfilled cottage-dwellers.

Did he actually say that? Masks coming off finally, then they’ll wonder why investment doesn’t materialise.

Yes, and that’s because Times of Malta cannot portray Muscat as being a follower.

They have to come up with some alibi, put last week’s mess in the past.

Maltatoday on the other hand, results totally schizophrenic, they say they hate the scheme, but will blame the PN, make that Tonio Fenech and his ‘praise’ for Henley and Partners.

What both won’t do is outline the Opposition’s position clearly. Disgraceful to say the least.

Whatever it is, the English speaking press, except the Independent, is at a loss how to proceed, reacting to this blog or, utterly pathetic, their polls’ response.

Have faith, the rise of ideology depended mainly on the previous industrial revolution, creating a new breed of leaders, yeomen and visionaries.

This one, and it is in its gestation, it will be the democratisation of production, rendering each and every one of us unique value producers.

Mass production, last bastion of both capitalism and its inverse, as we know it and in all its implications and unbalances, is being eroded. Technology can, and will, fragment capital and reject the production line.

The production of energy itself being a first, take it up a notch and imagine the pre-raphaelites’ vision made digital.

We haven’t even started tapping into the potential of computers, the internet and their influence on the meaning of trade, goods and money as a certificate of value.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/13/obama-talks-3-d-printing-calls-on-congress-create-network-of-innovation-hubs/

Fancy the factory as a lending library somewhere close. Imagine open source goods and what happens to branding.

If the prime minister decides to go for a referendum, he will expose himself to attacks from Simon Busuttil and the PN as to who is funding Muscat’s referendum campaign. It cannot be anyone else other than the same entity or entities who want to lay their hands on the Maltese passport.

Muscat is making a mistake to think that a referendum campaign will be easy for him. He was campaigning 8 months ago, but see what he has done after the vote. He turned all his promises upside down.

Agreed Daphne,

the difference between a teleprompter or Musumeci’s rehearsed Q&A’s, and the current vacuum is notable.

It’s just not the same individual. Or better, there wasn’t an individual in the first place.

It may sound strange but Muscat’s limits could very well provoke renewed interest in politics, Maltese mostly partial to pity.

I mean, lately I’m finding myself curious to see which foot he’ll put into it next.

Simon Busuttil has an excellent incisive intellect, he is highly articulate in Maltese, English and Italian, and above all he is a good person.

Joseph Muscat is not articulate in any language including his mother tongue and has, at best, a slightly above average brain which he has trained to learn a few tricks with which he will bore and upset people.

He has no morality and is patently amoral. The truth means nothing to him. Other people, all other people, mean nothing to him. He is a bad person.

It is not good enough in just being the good person – it is imperative that the good person wins the battle – now.

[Daphne – Joseph Muscat is articulate in no language, including his mother tongue. His vocabulary is extremely limited, his sentence construction poor and his word-flow is catastrophic. I don’t think he has evolved much beyond the level of articulacy in his original home environment, but he should have because he had all the advantages.]

This is not just about Malta. The 20th century was the century of ideologies. The 21st century will be the century of political agnosticism.

Have you heard of “the cold indifference of nature”? This is the cold indifference of politics.

Man stands alone. Mankind no longer exists. Nor does the common good.