@Claudio Zammit if you can only see what lies beneath. Yes most of the cars imported second hands from countries where it snows are racanc, and to add salt to the injury one ends up paying the amount that it costs in UK

if I may ask, can you tell me what you drive pls? Then when it is convenient for you we’ll meet and confront my ‘sekint hent’ and ‘racanc’ or whatever you called the second-hand imported car and then you can verify which car is ‘racanc’ mine or yours. Even tough not knowing what you drive I’m placing this challenge

I despair and cannot take it anymore, Maltese people are becoming more gullible as days go by under this communist government. At some point many will get back to their senses, but only after we hit a concrete wall and many will be hurt.

Minn dal-gvern s’issa x’rajna hlief nepotizmu, favoritizmu, inkompetenza, arroganza, bzar fl-ghajnejn, mutetti u giggifogu tad-duhhan.

Ghiduli x’sar ta’ sustanza fil-hajja ekonomika u socjali tal-magguranza tal-poplu.

BUT it seems everyone received what I will call a down payment of €110, without any explanatory letter, regardless of the car bought/purchase price/VAT on registration tax paid.

So presumably, one will know ‘in due course’ what will actually be refunded.

Thus, if one is to be refunded, say €500 in total (based on registration tax of €2700), one will be refunded €65 per annum or an average of €5/month for the remaining 6 years (IF one remembers to apply), so I really don’t know what all the fuss is about.

Oops.. I just received it!

Each and every country has its fair share of the first type and it’s more or less within the same ratio.

The problem lies in voter turnout.

In most European countries voter turnout is at most around 70% of the population and it is the dregs of society that normally keep away because they are either too stupid or too lazy to bother voting.

After having split his Party, Mintoff realised this potential and fortified his ranks with rabble, inflating voter turnout from 73.9% in 1950 to 81.2% in 1955. Mintoff led them to believe that they had some importance, that he was their Savoiur but the bottom line was the vote.

Admittedly some did benefit as some do today but for the vast majority quality of life remains unchanged. If anything it becomes worse because whereas under a PN administration they console themselves into believing that it’s not their government, which is wrong because a government belongs to the whole nation, today notwithstanding the ‘gvern taghna ilkoll’ most remain in their misery while ‘il-hbieb tal-hbieb ta’ Joseph ji pappuwa’.

With voter turnout today at around 95% it’s a miracle PN managed to hold out for so long but it also underscores one redeeming factor.

Unlike Mintoff, Joseph no longer has new pastures wherein to fortify his ranks. His poaching of PN votes in the last election is a testimony of this.

His ‘suldati tal-azzar’, the original ones not his half-baked copy Cyrus Engerer, are falling off their perch one by one and in time many of those who fled the Gonzi/PN administration will realise that Simon Busuttil means business, real business and no nonsense, which is what many of us who have hung on want anyway. They will come to their senses, be welcomed back to the PN and aid in putting this country back on track again.