I have compared the PN and Labour, and there really is no comparison.

Labour gets things done.

The PN just dallies and shilly-shallies.

Now to someone like you, the former is not automatically positive. You will look at the outcome, and judge that by your set of morals. But to a very large chunk of the population, what matters is that things get done. Look, there really is no other way of putting this: we are an extremely backward and unsophisticated society, which admires brutal tactics, regardless of the outcome.

On another subject, Joe Mizzi criticises the previous PN administration because it ignored warnings from the EU over the discriminatory tariffs, even though it faced fines. According to Mizzi, the present government is ensuring that the Commission would not initiate legal proceedings against Malta by putting an end to non-resident fares.

This is yet another wrong decision by the PL government on public transport.

For non-residents tickets to be the same as residents, an extra 3.7 million euros are required. This means that fares will have to be raised for residents. The increase of fares will make public transport a less attractive option. People are less likely to choose public transport over the use of their own car. This undermines the concept of encouraging people to use public transport. It also undermines the concept of making the operation of public transport more financially viable by increasing patronage.

The decisions taken by past administration, including the decision on non-resident fares, have to be seen in an overall context, namely that of reducing government subsidies over a period of time by increase public patronage of public transport. This objective was undermined by the PL, section of the media and others who vilified Arriva and the service they were offering, effectively discouraging people from using public transport.

Instead the PL government will create a downward spiral with increasing fares, reduced patronage and increased subsidies.

As for legal action from the EU, the right approach would have been for Malta to make its case and fight it out instead of simply giving a walkover. There are valid arguments for having a different fare for non-residents.

Referring to “L-Imhallef Farrugia Sacco” throughout, with a couple of “il-papàs” mumbled in, Dr. Farrugia Sacco slalomed around the white elephant in the room with the grace of a drunk and the blessing of a TV station from which we can no longer expect, let alone receive, any better.

After all, could we not see this as being a storm in a tea cup or something trivial that Tony l-Aspro can see to so effectively as that infamous block of ice?

I do believe strongly that I am more intelligent than that and would opt to go smell the coffee to avoid the storm in the tea cup.

‘Dr Muscat said that procedures related to Justice Farrugia Sacco are bound by secrecy, and that rightly so, he received a copy of the report of the Commission for the first time today in parliament and had never been given a copy prior to today’s sitting.’

Why did Muscat feel the need to state this? Did anybody from the house ask him if he had prior knowledge?

No, he will NOT be impeached. Judge Farrugia Sacco will start a spurious “human rights” case to challenge the conclusions of the Commission for the Administration of Justice, and the impeachment proceedings in Parliament will be stalled, waiting for the outcome of the constitutional court case.

That law suit will be dragged up to July, when Farrugia Sacco will by then have reached the end of his term of office, and Parliament will have no judge to impeach. He will retire ‘honourably’….

Kollox mahdum bizzilla.

Brenton Mifsud was a young man who died in 2012. A football tournament started being organised every year in his memory. That must be why his name is written on the shirt.

Of course his decision not to stand for re-election came several months after the impeachment motion was initiated by Lawrence Gonzi. It was by no means a resignation, or acknowledgment of, well, anything.