Can Dalli explain his open campaign for the government to commission Sargas to build a power station, his critical remarks about Libya and Libyans during the uprising against Gaddafi, his trips to the Bahamas and his dealings with an international fraudster using a false passport, and his pervasive presence on Maltese TV grinding his anti-prime minister axe, all while he was EU Commissioner?

Ditto

He was stupid.

Re your comment: >It’s tough to draw the line. For example, the PL make a huge fuss over some clock, but then no one bats an eyelid when we see lines of people outside the doors of politicians almost immediately after the election. What, exactly, is the difference?<

What's the difference? The difference is that each one of those queuing at the PL ministers' doors has his own version of the 'Tal-Lira' clock to hand over to the minister for favours done. In most cases it is their vote, the most precious thing I ever had in my life, having the power to vote for my own children. But PL voters choose to vote for their own personal selfishness and egoistic wet dreams such as hunting, illegal buidings, government jobs, unworthy promotions etc etc.

As for me, I have never attended a political meeting except the private school mega protest one and the post Raymond Caruana meeting way back in the years of lead aka the eightees. I have never entered a political party office or kazin, I have never knocked on a politician's door in my whole long life. I know of many others like me who have always voted PN for the same reason that I do: The future of my children, now grown up and now their own children.

My wish was always that the MLP would get its act together and learn from the PN, but alas this has ot happened yet and |I suspect that one fine day they will find themselves back on the opposition benches for a long long time. I just wonder what name they would give to the party then, so as to detoxify their reputation following their second try at governing.

@ Ciccio

Much more likely than a sacking of his adviser and consultant Joseph Muscat would be acting more according to his usual form by giving Dalli a cuddle, welcoming him into the regiment of soldiers of steel and some transfer to some apposite newly created post in the LP setup and allowing him to carry with him any goodies he may have been receiving so far.

Sacked? Dalli?

Really Ciccio, I didn’t expect this from you.

Dalli will now be promoted to ‘Suldat tal-azzar’ modern style like Cyrus Engerer.

No, what Dalli’s doing is closing on Muscat.

Unbelievable.

The guy’s just been fired or asked to resign. He’s created one of the Commissions greatest f*ckups in years. He’s just dragged his name and his country’s reputation through the mud. He’s a millionaire, perhaps billionaire and he worries about his allowances and whether he will have a pension.