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	Comments on: Self-assured, self-confident leaders in true democracies campaign on a couple of wooden pallets	</title>
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		By: kev		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kev]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 17:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2008477&quot;&gt;La Redoute&lt;/a&gt;.

Point long taken, La Redoute. It&#039;s you who&#039;s missing the point. How can you use a baffoon&#039;s comic act to justify ridiculing Muscat&#039;s pomposity?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2008477">La Redoute</a>.</p>
<p>Point long taken, La Redoute. It&#8217;s you who&#8217;s missing the point. How can you use a baffoon&#8217;s comic act to justify ridiculing Muscat&#8217;s pomposity?</p>
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		By: La Redoute		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[La Redoute]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 12:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2003935&quot;&gt;kev&lt;/a&gt;.

Is it a typical Mintoffian mindset to deliberately miss the point? You&#039;re no admirer of Muscat. Surely you can see that his posturing on a podium is absurd - that, not Cameron&#039;s photo, is the point of Cameron&#039;s photo.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2003935">kev</a>.</p>
<p>Is it a typical Mintoffian mindset to deliberately miss the point? You&#8217;re no admirer of Muscat. Surely you can see that his posturing on a podium is absurd &#8211; that, not Cameron&#8217;s photo, is the point of Cameron&#8217;s photo.</p>
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		By: Joe Fenech		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Fenech]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 12:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2003806&quot;&gt;Joe Fenech&lt;/a&gt;.

Drood: don&#039;t play semantics.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2003806">Joe Fenech</a>.</p>
<p>Drood: don&#8217;t play semantics.</p>
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		By: drood		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[drood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 01:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2003806&quot;&gt;Joe Fenech&lt;/a&gt;.

Guardianspeak. Not &quot;tax evasion&quot; which is against the law but &quot;tax avoidance&quot; which is legal as it works around current complex tax legislation.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2003806">Joe Fenech</a>.</p>
<p>Guardianspeak. Not &#8220;tax evasion&#8221; which is against the law but &#8220;tax avoidance&#8221; which is legal as it works around current complex tax legislation.</p>
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		By: Kevin		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 00:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2000224&quot;&gt;iced bun&lt;/a&gt;.

They hold hands but it is obvious there is little closeness.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2000224">iced bun</a>.</p>
<p>They hold hands but it is obvious there is little closeness.</p>
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		By: Grezz		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Grezz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 00:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-1999551&quot;&gt;davidg&lt;/a&gt;.

Height-wise, perhaps.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-1999551">davidg</a>.</p>
<p>Height-wise, perhaps.</p>
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		By: kev		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kev]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 23:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cameron doesn&#039;t do public meetings. He does walkabouts on election days and hops on makeshift platforms to receive the adulation of devoted candidates and activists.

But Pollyannas are unfailingly impressed.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cameron doesn&#8217;t do public meetings. He does walkabouts on election days and hops on makeshift platforms to receive the adulation of devoted candidates and activists.</p>
<p>But Pollyannas are unfailingly impressed.</p>
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		By: Joe Fenech		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Fenech]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 23:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2003752&quot;&gt;Peritocracy&lt;/a&gt;.

This report is about people who are totally illiterate. The most dangerous part of society is made up of the semi-literate, some of whom are university graduates in high positions.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2003752">Peritocracy</a>.</p>
<p>This report is about people who are totally illiterate. The most dangerous part of society is made up of the semi-literate, some of whom are university graduates in high positions.</p>
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		By: Joe Fenech		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Fenech]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 23:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2003751&quot;&gt;Joe Fenech&lt;/a&gt;.

While Malta has &quot;ghajjtuli Joseph&quot;, Britain has its &quot;call me Dave&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2003751">Joe Fenech</a>.</p>
<p>While Malta has &#8220;ghajjtuli Joseph&#8221;, Britain has its &#8220;call me Dave&#8221;</p>
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		By: Joe Fenech		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Fenech]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 23:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2000554&quot;&gt;WhoamI?&lt;/a&gt;.

Of course people loathe him. While the country is facing a financial crisis, welfare budgets have been cut, new tax such as the extra-bedroom tax have been introduced, small businesses are struggling, and jobs are being lost; corporation have increased their profits and have been allowed to get away with tax evasion. 

Cameron has many highly incompetent ministers in his cabinet (Michael Gove [education] is the worst one of all) and corruption is rife.

I&#039;ve mentioned this before, but to me Muscat&#039;s Labour bears many parallelisms with the current Tories.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/self-assured-self-confident-leaders-in-true-democracies-campaign-on-a-couple-of-wooden-pallets/#comment-2000554">WhoamI?</a>.</p>
<p>Of course people loathe him. While the country is facing a financial crisis, welfare budgets have been cut, new tax such as the extra-bedroom tax have been introduced, small businesses are struggling, and jobs are being lost; corporation have increased their profits and have been allowed to get away with tax evasion. </p>
<p>Cameron has many highly incompetent ministers in his cabinet (Michael Gove [education] is the worst one of all) and corruption is rife.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned this before, but to me Muscat&#8217;s Labour bears many parallelisms with the current Tories.</p>
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