One thing is that when he became leader he had promised to hold a National Assembly for all party members, this nevet happened and is now less likely to happen.

I agree with your comment. Espcially that is-sewwa jerbah zgur.

I agree with you that is-sewwa jirbah sgur,

From where I am standing it does look like this is happening.

This was very obvious from the very start in May last year and it has now been proven by last Saturday’s results.

Simon Busuttil’s gimmick of putting Beppe Fenech Adami and Mario de Marco on other side to try and unite the many factions within the party again has not worked.

[Daphne – It wasn’t Simon Busuttil who put them there and it was not a gimmick. Fenech Adami and Demarco are free agents and over 18, and they make their own decisions. And they were voted in.]

I have been a Nationalist all my life (43 years to be exact) as I believe in the principles of the party and believe that when we work well we deliver.

[Daphne – Nothing to boast about, I’m afraid, as it means you haven’t thought it out but think that political views are something you are born with, like dark hair. A Nationalist in a nappy? It’s not an ethnic group, you know.]

However as of May 2013 and for the foreseeable future will not vote PN as I do not identify myself any longer with the leader of this party.

[Daphne – The thing you don’t seem to understand is that what repels you attracts others. The problems occur when the party repels more people than it attracts. But then here’s the rub: if the Nationalist Party is remade in some past image that you and others favour, others will leave it in droves.]

I will never vote Labour mind you but my beliefs forbid me from voting for someone I do not believe in, it is nothing personal.

I am sure someone within PN wants to speak out that this cannot go on however instead they once again insult my intelligence by saying that we gained the 3rd seat.

We all know this is rubbish as had Simon Busuttil not got all those no 1 votes in 2009 we would have got the 3rd seat when this came available hence we have not improved one bit.

We also need to take into account the fact that Malta whether we like it or not are 80% popolin and as such many Maltese identify themselves very well to Joseph Muscat so they are really getting what they deserve.

Whenever PN was elected it was on what I would call a ‘maggoranza mislufa’ as they are not traditionally Nationalist but at the time agreed with what PN was saying like ‘Europe for example’.

When you take all this into account I seriously doubt Simon Busuttil has any chance of ever making it to ‘Castille’ and the quicker they all except this the quicker they can start convincing people in their own back garden first to vote for them, then some other from the PL voters.

If I remember correctly, the slogan “Is-Sewwa jirbah zgur” (Truth shall prevail) took a whole legislature (5 years) to materialise.

Josette, your argument is weak and actually, wrong.

A lot of MEPA decisions were doubtful at best long before MEPA was under Mario DeMarco’s watch.

Politics existed within MEPA since its inception, but never throughout the years, did a Nationalist prime minister ever write to MEPA panel prior to an important decision, indicating that whatever they decide he was going ahead with the controversial project, anyway.

But this is a moot point for more than one reason: Simon Busuttil is the party leader and there appears no pressure on him to resign and even so, since he was democratically elected, it would be his decision and nobody else’s.

He needs full support, not a tentative one. It is maddening that after winning the third seat, a feat in itself, there are those who find fault with everything he does simply because they preferred someone else during the leadership race.

Let us not forget that he has a total of one year experience leading a party fresh from a whopping defeat, while Joseph Muscat had six years experience.

Did Muscat do things perfectly from day one? No, but his handlers did a better job, made easier by the millions poured in from many sources, some still unknown. And his party’s own supporters did not tear him to shreds.

The fact that a bankrupt PN still has its doors open and its media still operating (albeit far from perfectly), is an achievement by the new Party administration not considered likely by many doubting Thomases.

That’s a tough load, but he has done well on all of them. Can he do better certainly, will he do better – I have no doubt in my mind that he certainly will.

Agree 100%

Speaking about branded clothes, the Labour delegates all had a red North Face jacket.