Top marks at Ground Level (mainstream fantasy) politics.
50% at Level One (critical) politics.
10% at Level Two (insightful) politics.
Tal-biki at Level Three (actual reality) politics.

I understand that the majority who applied were given backdated promotions and salary arrears accordingly. I am sure that same will happen at Air Malta as well as other entities which have a government involvement.

Allow me to re-phrase part of your comment:

In a ‘democratic’ country such as Malta, ‘independent-thinking’ voters can only correct their possibly floating vote within a framework of their expectations of getting their iced-bun.

This may sound pessimistic, as has been expressed elsewhere on this post’s comments, but I find Willie Mangion’s reason for voting Labour in the last election quite symptomatic.

He said he had spoken to Dr Gonzi about a job and he was offered one, but he considered it below his talents. As soon as Labour was voted in Prime Minister Muscat gave him the job of finding garages for musical bands!

Whether this is commensurate with his talents or not I can’t tell because I don’t know what his talents are. What we all know is that his ‘efforts’ returned zilch results.

And Willie was splashed on Labour’s billboards as your typical Maltese independent-thinking voter.

Ought to be nailed comment of the year!

As they say, hope dies last. I do believe that the PN were bleeding for quite some time. The EU and the Euro were possibly the main factors that at least contributed to the last electoral win by the PN.

The majority of voters are not diehard supporters of any party. The way forward is the younger generation. This is a vast sector of the electorate that want well-paid jobs, job mobility.

I am certain that come next general election, the non-hard core voter will stick his hand in his pocket. If he finds money then he will vote PL. If on the other hand he finds holes in his pockets he will vote PN.

I have always voted PN because it was the only party that had a vision. But we must admit that the PN was far from perfect and needs a complete overhaul and particularly a team of strategists that are on the ball and come up with policies that are youth-based too.

Now the few have become the majority and their only way to feel comfortable is to take over everything and to make the morally sound feel excluded and uncomfortable.

Their only pleasure is in bringing them down to their level. What a degenerative country we live in.

These are the cyclical phases of human society:

Barbarism
Renaissance
Civilisation
Degeneration

Then back to Barbarism
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We are now in the late degenerative phase with a possible onset of barbarism already felt.

The cause of this degeneration and onset of barbarism is the throwing into the dustbin of our timeless established morals that had built the European civilisation in the first place.

This civilisation has conquered the world not by force but by conviction. Europe was built on Greco-Roman laws and mores enhanced by those simple, basic Christian teachings that say Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself, or in more simpler terms, be generous instead of an egoist.

European civilisation had conquered most of the world simply because its morals and political ethics, which were also very much conducive to the development of science and knowledge, were found to be good by nearly every country in this world of ours and which today these countries copy and adapt and use to there own benefit. The acceptance of our European civilisation by most of the rest can be measured by the fact that today most people around the world wear the same style of shirt, trousers, tie and jacket. Those who still don’t are beheading others that do.

In spite of all this millennial progress, in spite of all the wars against evil despots, in spite of all the writings and philosophies handed down to us by our founding fathers; in spite of all these, we have now become maddeningly hubristic, believing that our ‘modern’ society can do without all the past experiences, teachings and philosophies and have therefore invented our modern society, based on nothing except egoism. Today many believe that money comes out of a hole in the wall and if that doesn’t work then there’s the politician who will provide them with food stamps, dole money, free lodging, free medicine, free schooling, free travel and many other free services while taxing more and more the ever decreasing number the hard-working class group within our society.

This continuously decreasing group has to produce more money for the continuously increasing troughers. One day the camel’s back will break. That day would come when there would not be enough hard-working wealth creators to support the increasing number of troughers. As Alexander Fraser Tytler said some 200 years ago:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilisations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”

Our society is just this.