Exactly. That’s why the PN lost the election. It wasn’t a choice between two options, but three:

1. Joseph Muscat as PM
2. Lawrence Gonzi as PM
3. Simon Busuttil as PM

Option 3 is impossible without 1. If Lawrence Gonzi had given his solemn word that he’d step down after WINNING the election, then the relative strengths of 2 and 3 combined would have been greater than 1.

Instead he chose the negation of this, perhaps thinking it was a brilliant move, stating that he would NOT resign if he LOST the election.

The result was that even those who preferred 3 to 1 ended up choosing 1 as the only way to get 3.

It was handled disastrously. They don’t need jurists and ex-journalists at PN headquarters, but smart people who can teach them game theory.

I mean why am I telling them this?

Joseph Muscat is the price we had to pay to get Simon Busuttil.

With a bit of luck he’ll fall so deep that he’ll take the last vestiges of the “venerated image” of Mintoff into the depths with his generated one.

Many of the older generation had already chucked out their “Nanna and Nannu with Mintoff; Mintoff with Zija Marija, Ziju Ton etc” series of photos in the salott, and much of Joseph Muscat’s door to door and personal approach was to provide the new stock of these.

Last week was a point of no return.

Joseph Muscat’s bubbles are bursting fasting than he can muster credible excuses for, whilst Simon Busuttil is on the ascent.

From the same book that proto-truths came from (The Happiness Purpose):

There are those whose egos are larger than their capabilities and who should strive to bring the two in line.

There are those whose capabilities are superior to their egos.

What is happening here with Joseph Muscat, is that where capabilities are deficient, new-truthing/ proto-truthing is supplementing.

Hodics is what it is all about: The choice and mechanics of routes.

Perhaps we are all waiting for the Opposition to organize it all.

Careful. Some people might take you seriously.

People were eager to try ‘new Labour’ like a drug novice who has a puff of hash and then realises that he despises the taste. After all the chaos they created, PL will have to return to the reserves bench for many more decades. Labour has relegated itself once more to being a ‘party of thugs and scoundrels’.

His “Golden Rule” speech of today was obscene. I am starting to wonder when this guy is going to come out onto an open balcony dressed in black military garb to a staged show of popular support.

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