No mobile phones and instant photography, no quick one-touch recordings or Facebook. No internet. Not even proper TV or radio.

If the last 20 months of labour government are anything to go by, what we do not know about the Mintoff/KMB shenanigans must be truly horrifying.

Then the following day Simon Busuttil metaphorically tore Joseph Muscat and his entire group of MPs to shreds in his historic Budget speech. On the following Tuesday Joseph Muscat tried to do the same to the Opposition. So what was the point of the ‘goody images’ of Sunday?

Problema hi li marketing qatt ma holoq prodott.

Jghid x’jghidu.

Simon Busuttil would do well to steer clear of any situation which the Prime Minister will use as a photo op for his own purposes.

As for L-iStrina, my donations go directly to my charity of choice, rather than leaving it up to others to decide who benefits.

Hospital staff are advising these persons to ask the Community Chest Fund to fund their expenses for these no longer available medicines.

This is not what the Community Chest Fund was created for.

It was not made to bale out the government.

Silvioloporto: I started the comment in French. Therefore M for Monsieur.

You see, you learn something new every day.

I give to charity as much as I can afford. As to the Community Chest Fund being a worthy cause, that’s another argument. I have my sincere doubts.

Agreed, all he has to do is make sure Muscat isn’t anywhere in the vicinity.

As for initiative, mathematical it’s over. It’s why he tried to keep Busuttil as close as possible the first six months.

As I said, it isn’t even two years. Sustainability in government is all there’s to it, and that’s policy.

Divorce, done, gay union, ditto, now what, a bridge?

He had one option; kill any idea of politics and their exercise. Problem is, that rests on his social misgivings.

We are not his prototype and the moment he’ll try, throwing money at everyone, he will be dumped.

This is where Busuttil can work his magic.

Those who in the PN, insist Labour ser jikrolla wahdu are mistaken and wrong.

Ejja nghidu li kieku l-bullets laqtu lil Smith f’rasu u flok qatluh pparalizzawh u kien jigi bzonn l-Istrina – Silvio, id-donazzjoni tieghek qatt ma ha tkun bizzejjed.

You can donate to charity any time of year, Mr Loporto, as lots of us do already.

The only possible justification for Simon Busuttil appearing in the televised charity drive is not to hand Muscat an opportunity to exploit. Ironically, that’s the self- same reason Busuttil’s involvement would be ill-advised.

It is perfectly possible to support a charity drive without apoearing alongside Muscat.