I could do a better job too, but I would never get voted it. Not with Maltese electorate.

Simon Busuttil makes the capital mistake of trying to please when he has nothing to offer. Joseph Muscat could do it, and boy is he a consummate crowd-pleaser. But he knew he would win the election, and he could promise fantastic iced buns which he knew he could deliver.

Exactly which voter will this incarnation of Simon Busuttil attract? The diehard Nazzjonalisti – the ones who would vote for him anyway, or another other NP leader for that matter.

Will it siphon off Labour votes? Absolutely not. Both party leaders are trying hard to please everyone. All else being equal, people will vote for the one who’s already in power, because he’s the one who’s in power and can deliver, QED.

Will it cause any intelligent switchers to de-switch? No. Because they do not seek a crowd-pleaser but a leader.

Until Simon Busuttil stops trying to please everyone and starts pissing off some of them, he will never dent Labour’s solid majority.

And I know exactly where he should start: the bird-shooting lobby (known in Malta as the hunters).

I haven’t been nominated either. I’m worried. It means I really have no friends.

Spot on, Baxxter. As usual.

Is it just me that missed the news that Maltese charities have had a spike in donations recently?

The selfie generation can throw the contents of an ice bucket on their head and true to their narcissistic character post the video of them doing it on Facebook. Any one older should know better.

Just in case anyone is wondering, no I haven’t been nominated, either because I’m not of the in crowd or because my friends know I don’t do stupid if I can help it.

If so many are so keen to help why don’t they just go out and do it> And it doesn’t even have to be an organisation. I’m sure we all have a lonely old lady up our street, or a couple struggling with a sick child.

It’s nobody’s business but yes, we have done our bit, and we’re not telling any one about it because we’re doing it because we care. And that for us is enough.

I couldn’t agree more. Maybe I’m growing old and becoming old-fashioned but this whole ice bucket business really caused me to think long and hard about what society has become fixated with.

There are many important illnesses which need a considerable injection of funds to be better researched and treated and this is the heart of the matter which has sadly been trivialised to the extreme.

We are talking about alternative prime minister material, for heaven’s sake.

What would he have done during the Libyan crisis when two fighter jets wanted to land in Malta, and all the subsequent threats from the Ghaddafi regime?

And I’m no fake, nor a de Marco supporter, but have simply given up on the PN which I’ve supported loyally.

As to the question of who could take up the leadership, my answer is anyone could do a better job than Dr Busuttil, myself included. It will take some courage for that person, knowing all too well that the chances of success are very slim, but at least someone who is able to reduce the vote deficit to below 8,000, which is he hardest part.

At this rate, mark my words that in 2018 the PL majority will be even greater than 33K. Five years wasted and the PN in greater disarray. And I know what I’m talking about as I mix with lots of switchers.