Not in Malta, I’m afraid.

The message has to be repeatedly hammered in the Maltese consciousness. It is the only way that works. Labour repeats its drivel until it is believed.

Take, for example, that blokka silg – a smoking gun if there ever was one. Labour repeatedly glossed over that little story, and as the PN didn’t hound Muscat, he managed to get away with it.

Conversely, take Tonio Fenech and that bloody clock. Labour media mentioned it on a daily, if not hourly, basis. It went to the top of the agenda.

On the other hand, how many people remember that Joseph Muscat is getting wads of cash for using his own car?

Or take Franco Mercieca, still doing eye operations to supposedly keep his hand in, although he is making a ton of money from this.

When was the last time he was hounded on the subject?

Sai Mizzi? The Opposition asked for details of her contract, the government said no, and that was the end of that. All wrong.

The Nationalist Party has to unleash its journalists, and they shouldn’t take no for an answer. They shouldn’t be intimidated by Mallia and his pozi, or by Muscat’s waspish tongue.

Their job is to uncover and publish, and as they belong to a politically-owned media organization, to keep up the pressure on these people.

Being caught out in a lie like this is stupid. It undermines the credibility of government with those voters who consider themselves to be floaters and it does so over something which is fairly trivial.

[Daphne – It’s not being caught out that’s stupid, but lying in the first place. Why do it?]

This is not the first time they have been caught lying and it will not be the last.

There are times when silence is golden.

The people are fickle, they will be more irritated by Labour’s actions than by the PN’s silence.

The labour mantra that the PN also did it will also make people realise that voting for Labour did not get the desired change. It will in all probability, based on what we are seeing to date, rebound back on them.

remember the grass is always greener on the other side

Yes, they should all be forthcoming if Muscat got what he wanted.

He’ll just carry on. It’s his job to reduce this place to his level.

I mean, look at us, going through the fine print of a bogus legal notice to see how our democratically elected government planes to shove it up.

It’s a war of attrition, but they’re far fewer.

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest liar of us all?”