Lève-toi, marche, regarde.

Wouldn’t this be a now or never moment?

Perhaps you can brush up your English vocab instead of extolling Lawrence Gonzi. Words have precise meaning, and in “capital expenditure”, the clue is “expenditure”. Spiza or nefqa I you like, but not every nefqa is an investiment.

So go ahead and vote in favour of the IIP if you think it’s the same as igaming regulation.

Unfortunately Kevin, Anthony is completely right.

There are people around, who I thought were intelligent, who cannot understand what is wrong with the IIP scheme.

There are people are who still get all excited that the PN lost the election by 36k votes and by the 25% decrease in their future electricity bills.

When you meet these people and hear them speak you realise that the best option for anybody with some sense is to emigrant elsewhere.

However, I would caution those who find solace in criticising the Maltese in a general way, to be more discerning. I do not think that the Italian, French, Greek, Spanish, Belgian, Dutch, American or indeed British electorates have shown any greater maturity than the Maltese in their choices of governments over the years.

After all, it was the Maltese electorate that drove Mintoff and his party out of office for over a quarter of a century and supported Fenech Adami in his quest for EU membership.

Yes, unfortunately it was the same electorate, as it evolved over the years inspired with new values, most of them copied from abroad, that decided to vote for a change last year.

The electorate is made up of human beings, irrespective of its nationality. It has its weaknesses. It can be fickle. When it is not faced with an obvious danger that it must fight against, it tends to slip back into a mind-set of complacency that makes it vulnerable to temptations of greed and self-gratification.

Politicians of calibre should be leaders, inspiring for the better, and not accomplices in promoting human weaknesses.

Malta could have expanded its residency scheme to include eventual citizenship, without any road-shows in Miami before it was even made law.

PN governments, including those of PM Gonzi, created the right legal set-up for niche activities such as company domicile for taxation, maritime, i-gaming and more recently, aviation. But they never shouted about the billion plus euros ALREADY collected from these activities.

Indeed when Der Spiegel ran an article about German companies paying tax in Malta, the authorities held their breath. Fortunately there were no negative repercussions.

As to blaming Gonzi regarding investment versus “spejjez”, I think this is a rather inane remark. I consider the one billion euros of EU funds spent on the university, new state schools, sewage treatment plants, power station, interconnector, restoration of fortifications, Valletta regeneration, Maghtab rehabilitation, road network, oncology hospital, as very sound investments, not spejjez.

Capital expenditure certainly cannot be termed as “spejjez”. Spejjez refers to recurrent expenditure or running costs. Perhaps you can brush up your economics terminology rather than accuse Gonzi.

More than half actually did vote for Labour in 1996 and almost blew up our EU membership and western world aspirations.

But the Nationalist party knew too well that some Maltese would not conceive or digest the EU pre and post accession reforms and an electoral price would have to paid at some stage.

The early signs came with the 2008 meagre majority which could have been a defeat were it not for the Sant factor.

There is no disorder with these Maltese. They are just like spoilt brats. They want the best of two worlds.

You mean I could be a candidate on the PN list without my name or face appearing anywhere? Unlikely.

I had my Eureka moment when I saw that the Nordic countries are top of the list in innovation, top of the list in public trust, top of the list in press freedom, bottom of the list in corruption, bottom of the list in income inequality, and also the officially the happiest countries in the world.

And that they do not have the highest GDP per capita, and are surpassed in that category by some of the world’s worst dictatorships.

That just about sums up the facts that helped form my manifesto.

Baxxter, you’ve just described a small town called Gainesville, Texas. So small, but thinks big. Really like it.

Thing is, no one but them know of it.