I agree with Mark and like him I did not vote in 2013 or this time around – event though I had always voted PN before and can never imagine myself voting PL ever.

I am quite surprised by the reaction which Mark’s comment gathered here. And in my opinion it shows one of the main problems PN is facing.

It is true that by ‘us’ not voting, we ended up with a ‘repackaged’ old Labour – but the only motivation you seem to promote to vote PN, is simply not to vote in PL, because it is worse than PN.

Really? Is this all PN can offer – choose us because the others are worse?

[Daphne – Actually, hardly that, Zaren. My PN vote started as an anti-Labour vote but soon became a vote of conviction. They really knew what they were doing and it really fit with my idea of what life should be like in a normal country. I agreed with PN policy, and I especially agreed with EU membership and joining the Eurozone. I loved their policies on higher education, and I adored the liberalisation of markets. But in general, I like their attitude and I can’t stand Labour’s. And even if that were not the case, it is still perfectly legitimate to use your vote to keep the worse option out of government. Whether you like it or not, you’re going to get either one or the other as a government, so you work out which one you’re happiest with and you vote accordingly. The people who don’t vote in general elections because they think that neither party deserves their glorious patronage are, essentially, stupid. What are they thinking – that if they don’t vote they will not get either party as a government?]

Even if this is true (which it is), this will never rally the necessary support to get PN back in government. Whoever may vote for these reasons may equally be swayed to the other way by some last-minute promotion, cheque in the letterbox and whatever other disgusting tools the PL will/is using.

What is needed are a clear message and clear direction. This is totally missing right now. We need to be able to again want to aspire to something larger than the 2c which Joe mercifully throws down occasionally to the hordes.

Unless and until PN realise this – they will not be in government again. Unfortunately from what I’m seeing so far, it seems that the PN need more battering before waking up.

[Daphne – Might I ask you what Labour’s message was in the last election? What its policies were? Its ideals? Its Big Picture? What you think it stood for? ‘Malta Taghna Lkoll’ was not a message, a policy or an ideal. It was a slogan, backed by nothing.]

Li thaddan principji bhal ta’ Sant tkun injorant! U meta l-Lejber irid jitghajjar bin-negattivita kull ma ghandu jaghmel ihares lejn meta kien hu fl-Oppozizzjoni. Mhux ta’ xejn kienu jghidulu Dr No.

ibqghu irragunaw hekk, u tibqghu fl abbiss.

You are absolutely right!!!

As his nephew so aptly demonstrated in his “Naghmlu Allejanza” video……”Malta l-ewwel u qabel kollox!” It would seem that inspiration runs in the family.

Iktar minn injurant trid tkun – almenu Norman Lowell ghandu principju. Ilni naf lil Lowell fuq hamsa u tletin sena u dejjem kien kellu femha Nazista. Alfred Sant x’principju ghandu?

how about 50k plus of votes
ha ha ha
you are the deluded one

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