You created the original premiss and I simply gave it a different point of view: The abandoned wife is the wife, the father is still the father and the new partner is the new partner. I just gave them a bit more character and different aspects. I didn’t move away from the premiss but simply built on the premiss to show that there may be different views of the same situation :)

[Daphne – I am afraid you are incorrect. The original premiss was NOT linked to an argument about the REASONS FOR switching.]

They’re the sort who’d vote Labour if Labour starved them.

When did illegality ever get in Labour’s way?

After all, people who received a plot/ a house/ an apartment in the eighties are still grateful for their property and vote Labour to this very day.

No wonder you’re finding it difficult to understand Daphne’s quite simple analogy, if you can’t understand what ‘a fine woman’ is.

Geez, were you born stupid or did you have to go to school to get there?

I really don’t think that’s legal in the EU. Subsidising business with public money like that. The poison creeping in is that the cash from those passports somehow isn’t ours.

And if it’s for Mallia to keep, I doubt any of it will be spent.

Is there one thing in this budget that compares to good business practice?

All I see are ramifications, consequences, reactions and plain polemic. Nsomma, s-soltu Labour. Kemm rahas bott tonn taz-zejt?

Here he is in 2010.

http://www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/2010/09/24/prime-minister-zapatero-says-property-market-has-bottomed-out/

And here’s Spain two years later.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254208/Spains-property-prices-slump-50-cent-British-holiday-homes-worst-hit.html

Guess Muscat has enough sense to keep this in mind when playing monopoly with the islands. The size of this place makes its dynamics extremely nervous and quick.

Bit like the early 911 turbo, once it’s wagged its tail, the nearest hedge was the best one could hope for.

“Mara ta’ hila min isibha? Tiswa hafna aktar mill-gawhar; fuqha tistrieh qalb zewgha u dan zgur ikunlu ta’ gid …” (Prov 31:10-31

This is what the bible says of a fine woman.