I’ll probably get a torrent of negative response for this, but I think the Nationalist Party should give up that Christian Democrat rubbish.

Whatever Christian Democrat principles I held were lost after 1987 in the headlong rush to make money the new national narrative.

That is not Christian Democracy. Nor is the NP’s brand of Socialism, which rewards clientelism instead of merit, and which killed off what remained of the notion of personal empowerment through the creation of a massive nanny state. The NP is an anti-liberal party.

So enough with the hypocrisy.

Let Nationalist Party decide which way it wants history to evolve. Then it will know itself.

I suspect the results will be a shock to many of us. For the NP, it turns out, is a Left Wing party. They are the Socialists. Labour are the Fascists.

What the NP would need then, is a good dose of Right Wing Liberalism.

But I’m not holding my breath.

It is going the same way many parties have gone, most fresh to my mind being New Labour in the UK, the UMP in France and the Partido Popular in Spain. Interestingly, the PP has now regained that lost identity.

The Australian Labor Party, for example, which is now set to be eclipsed by an extremist Green party in the polls and which now depends on their preferences in the counting, is a perfect example of how, once a party has abandoned its voters, they will go elsewhere.

Essentially, in Australia diehard Labour supporters have switched to the Liberal, Green and National parties. The ALP is more concerned with appealing to the fringe instead of appealing to the worker – after all, they ARE a Labour party.

Now the PN has to understand that if it abandons Christian Democracy and its Judaeo Christian roots and its commitment to Liberalism, its voters will abandon it in droves. Where they will go in an intellectually vacuous political environment such as Malta is hard to say.

You got it right while most people, including many PN voters, have been taken in by Muscat’s Orwellian double-speak.

That is why as soon as the gay thing was over he went straight ahead into the drug issue, so that we would not have the tie to revert back to the real issues on hand which are what you have listed but not only.

The most serious and real issue is the government’s financial situation which is floundering fast.

I know from the horse’s friend’s mouth that the finance minister has instructed his top-managers to try to delay payments to contractors as late as possible. Notice also the fact that our roads are not being maintained and new school buildings are out of the window and no new government capital projects are seen on the horizon.

So Joseph Muscat is trying to hide the real issues until the EP elections, with the ‘imbaghad naraw’ (then we’ll see what we can do) policy on hand.

The future beckons.

Who said anything about the UN? These are rights as I see them. And perhaps as nature intended. I know I sound politically incorrect but then I never was.

The purpose of adoption is to provide parents for the child, not to provide children for the couple (or for a single adult, gay couple, polyamorous couple, or three or more adults joined in union).

Andreas, you are brilliant. The solution according to you to put everyone on the same level, the lowest possible, that way no one would be ‘lucky’ enough to have a normal mother and a normal father. Typical socialist of you.

How about changing the homophobic environment?

You don’t know much about Nazis or about German/European history, do you?

What would be the consequence of that right being not fulfilled, for example if a child is born to a widow or a single mother? Would the law force her to marry someone else? Or send a substitute father? Or take the child away?

Prosit! J Vella, you nailed it.