I am Malti pur and I think the Maltese are stupid. There.

Let’s stop it with this village pride thing. It’s getting tiring.

I think the issue here is more of ignorance and hand-outs than money. People don’t seem to appreciate where their money really comes from.

Decreasing rates are not really decreasing. Money is being transferred from somewhere else, which is, ultimately, still tax payers’ money. The previous increases were more due to a reduction in subsidies on utilities. We haven’t really been paying enough to cover the cost of production for these, which is why so many people waste both electricity and water.

The real way to give wealth to the people is to attract foreign direct investment. What has Labour done in that regard? Our reputation has been tarnished, there is less investment overall and our exports are falling. Unemployment is increasing and there seems to be no real job creation. Increasing the size of the civil service only to absorb the unemployed and Muscat’s favourites will just increase the burden on public finances.

China’s ‘investment’ in Enemalta will come back to bite us in the backside once it uses its leverage to make us work against European interests as be seen as a pariah within the EU. Even less investment would be sure to follow.

Simply put, nothing Labour has done is sustainable and the economy, and thus people’s wealth and spending power, will suffer.

It is indeed the economy, stupid. Too bad so many are apparently too stupid to realise just what the economy is.

Mr Farrugia, are you serious? Are you blind to all that’s been going on these past 14 months? How can you go on about the 500 Euro (which Labour conveniently forget was stopped) when we now have a Cabinet that practically doubled the cost of the previous government’s, a civil service payroll bloated by an extra 3 million Euro a year and numerous cushy job payouts to the party faithful not least of which is the 13,000 Euro a month to Mrs Sai Mizzi, for God knows what. Do you live on the same island I do?

It was Adolf Hitler who said that ‘it is the good fortune of politicians that people do not think.’

The ‘botched’ public transport system is worse off now, David, or hadn’t you noticed? The difference is tha tKurt Sansone et al are no longer reporting every non-event involving the buses.

Government today is still spending lots of money on the new parliament building, only now it’s because it’s messed up and is obliged to pay a daily penalty.

Utility rates are not decreasing. The cost and means of production hasn’t changed. The cost is simp,y being transferred elsewhere so people like you can delude themselves that they’re not paying.

Let me please remind you (one example) about the arrogance of the previous government and why people are starting to abandon them. After the E.U said that a tax should not be imposed on an other tax the government of the day still said that they will not refund them…..just like robbing…this while they secretly got 500 euro a week.

It just was not right…full stop.

It is the bread and butter issues which in reality matter. The PN in the late 80s and 90s fuelled the feel good factor and liberalised the economy.

This made people richer and therefore they voted PN. When VAT was introduced, Labour won. The people felt EU membership would be beneficial and they voted accordingly. The present government is again working on the feel good factor and decreasing rates.

On the other hand the last PN government increased electricity rates while spending millions of euros on a new Parliament and a botched public transport reform.

What is wrong with being a Zejtunija? I am very very proud of being a Zejtunija. Not all the people from the south are the same as not all the people from the North are the same. I do not think that you would be pleased when someone offends someone from your same village with a comment that is generic.

There are a lot of intelligent and well educated people in Zejtun so please stop this taboo about Zejtun.

No matter how many countries and places I will live in in my live and wherever my job takes me I will always be a proud Zejtunija.

[Daphne – Anthony Charles, who wrote that comment is from Zejtun himself.]

Shhh, Giovanni! Don’t spell it out. We know, she knows and her husband knows that she, personally, stands to lose more than the €110 she’s talking about. But she also knows that those stupid goats out there don’t get it at all.