Indeed, perhaps the Manuel Mallia debacle has shown the PN that the gloves should be off, especially given the number of places that the PL government has exposed itself.

Too late for a change in the leader’s attitude and tactics. Now the way he has projected himself in the eyes of the electorate is what it is. First impressions count. He cannot reverse that.

And what about the PN media? Some of them are not even articulate to read and transmit a news decently in a clip where the message really needs to be driven home.

One of things which gave the PN the edge in the past was that it had some of the best journalists who persisted on news value items, where not afraid to challenge the Opposition on anything and where excellent communicators. Nathaniel Attard and Amanda Ciappara come to mind.

This is not a lost battle. It is only an opening skirmish in a protracted war that still has four years to run, at most.

I meant to say why does not the PN pr machine hammer..(serves me right for not reading it properly before posting)

EXACTLY! Than why does the PN pr machine hammer these statements into people’s heads when they are called negative?

I guess all comes down to money and over the next few months and years we as Nationalist Party supporters should all help out in the matter.

You can never have ‘too good a person.’ Mahatma Gandhi defined good and see what he managed to achieve against the might of Imperial Britain.

[Daphne – And for me, the prime minister of this island would be 6’3″, gorgeous to look at, highly educated and intelligent, polished, articulate and amusing. But it’s not going to happen is it? So belt up about Ann Fenech. The way you discuss people independently of their wishes and reality is quite impressive. And only recently we had a ‘discussion’ about your beliefs that married women are the heart of the home, there to look after their husbands and children. Now, suddenly, you want one as party leader. Go figure.]

They should not be feeling that Dr Busuttil was “part and parcel” of the previous administration. He was an MEP in Brussels dragged in at the very last moment after the die had already been cast in the minds of the electorate.