They come in thousands and taking their families into the equation you will get the PN off balance forever.

Nationalist hunters may opt to abstain but the Labour supporters who hunt outnumber the Nationalists by far.

[Daphne – I don’t think so, actually.]

It is sad that Helga Ellul’s potential and professional performance was not recognised by a larger majority.

If votes had an economic weighting in terms of tax contributions paid by entrepreneurs, perhaps the votes she received would be telling a different story.

Modern Malta, it seems, still needs to be hand held through the motions that lead to success, needs to be thanked and feel appreciated in every day motions of life. Ego-stroking, thankfully, is not Helga Ellul’s area of expertise.

Who is Ellul to the man in the street? Contexts in Malta are not only confined but restricting. Communication should concentrate on a breakdown of the message not on pictures of the lifestyle of that person.

The general public needs to find the dots joined for sound conclusions to be arrived at.

The Labour side know that this is where their forte lies: Where the dots are joined by misrepresentation, their majority is there to lap it up without further analysis.

The Nationalist Party needs to improve on the manner the dots and their links are communicated.

Also, Helga Ellulcan afford to speak from a broad angle because experience does that to successful people, but this can be double-dutch to the man in the street who has no clue what the broad terms apply to in everyday broad-to-narrow focus precision and application. The message needs to be simplified, with example and literal. Either that or pictorial.

Her vision is foreign policy that they’ve never encountered.

I hope that she stays with the NP and delivers that vision internally.

It would be a huge waste to lose her.

I have known Helga Ellul since she first came to Malta in the early seventies when Playmobil was set up, when at the time I was sssistant secretary and later secretary of the Metal Section of the General Workers Union.

Mrs Ellul was instrumental in setting up the factory, and ended up as managing director of a labour force of 1000+. She has held high positions in the Federation of Industry, the Chamber of Commerce, and served also as chairperson of MCAST.

It is my view that she did not obtain the votes she deserved not because she is a foreigner – after all, she is a Maltese citizen and has been for some years – but because she does not speak Maltese even though she understands it.

Mrs Ellul deserved to be elected.

Exactly as per rowdmepp. In 4 years the movement should consist of around 80% of under 50s.

Vera, għax Marlene Mizzi is on a level of her own.

But seriously now. I pity Sant, mostly. He’s going to find out what a P&D straight jacket feels like. And if he decides to go rapporteur, he’ll discover that his true function is to collate a multitude of amendments through tedious committee sittings for legislation scripted by unknown technocrats working in the Commission. Ah…, and he’ll finally read the final report live in plenary before the votes are cast (on the frivilous amendments and the report itself).

He can claim to be a “euro-realist” and beleive in “the concept of a Europe of nations” but he’s not going to do any of that politics. Not while his socialist comrade-overlords are holding his leash. A mild ‘euro-realist’ speech every now and then is all he’s going to manage. We had that with Scicluna, but it did not matter when he came to play rapporteur.