Joseph Muscat: top choice of those with primary education only. Simon Busuttil: top choice of those with university education.
This emerges from a survey published by Malta Today. Joseph Muscat has slipped down 15 percentage points, but remains 15 percentage points ahead of Simon Busuttil.
Meanwhile, Busuttil is 11 percentage points ahead of Muscat among those with university education. Those with only primary school education overwhelmingly support Muscat. Altogether now: why are we not surprised.
Muscat has lost support among people with university education and post-secondary education – this would include vocational colleges and so on – over the last 12 months. Busuttil has gained support there. Muscat has gained support (four percentage points) among those with no more than primary school education.
Muscat has neither lost nor gained support among those with only a secondary school level of education.
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Simon Busuttil could have gone in for the kill and went all out against hunting, sweeping up many of the votes of the next generation in one fell swoop.
As things stand, the recent gains might all be for naught.
How would you reconcile Busuttil’s “NO” stand if you were shown this video which is a “YES” to spring hunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX7UELG9Y5E
I will be voting “NO” for more than one reason, but my main reason is that I am fed up of being held hostage by a group of cavemen each time an election is near.
Matthew S, I disagree with you. It would have been disastrous for Busuttil if he supported the No vote and the No vote then loses (as would have been most likely with Muscat supporting Yes and Busuttil supporting No).
Imagine this; Busuttil putting his political future in the hands of Saviour Balzan who leads the No campaign.
Killing two birds with one stone, you mean?
Now if I were a clever boffin, I would take the results of another survey on hunting referendum voting patterns and educational level, and correlate. Then perhaps we’d know whether it was a good idea to support the Yes vote.
The difference between Joseph Muscat and Simon Busuttil is that the former is trying to please the most number of voters and the latter is sticking to the path he chose, when we were in the process of joining the EU.
It is a tough, but the right decision Busuttil has made. Two wrongs never make a right and a dash of “applied principle” will not harm politicians that much. Correct?
He does NOT support the yes vote. That’s what Saviour would love.
Even because Busuttil was torn to shreds the moment he relied on Balzan’s negotiating skills and info gathering in 2002.
Listen to this radio interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsGvfAdhfsE
Is-Sur Saviour Balzan.
A couple of months ago I was visiting someone in hospital and they asked for a newspaper.
They were brought L-Orizzont because, they were told, since the last election, that is the only newspaper distributed in the wards. If a person wants Times of Malta or The Malta Independent or In-Nazzjon, they have to get out of bed and go to the main reception area and buy it themselves or wait for relatives to get it for them.
This made me realize how seamlessly information is managed and how exposure of whole groups of people is limited to the Labour Party’s version. There is a lot of Machiavellian sense in putting one’s people in all key positions and exploiting that is an art with the LP.
Last year on an Air Malta flight, I was offered only PL-leaning newspapers, one of which was Malta Today. Can someone enlighten me whether this is still the case?
“There is a lot of Machiavellian sense in putting one’s people in all key positions and exploiting that is an art with the LP.”
100% spot on. The thing is these people had been progressively widening their “active agents” networks since well before the 2013 elections – definitely since Joseph Muscat became Party Leader in 2008.
These people were also put into position to negatively action the files of any position seen – for one reason or another – to be a threat to Joseph Muscat.
Now, that there is more clarity surrounding Joseph Muscat propensity to scam, and that things like this are finally coming to light and being understood in the more general perspective.
Without a doubt, when I was saying this before the election due to my own personal experience of it, it must have sounded like double Dutch to those whose daily life had no direct exposure to his sinister methods.
This is only a tip of his ice-berg of Machiavellian tactics.
The man is a fraud and will stop at nothing to get what/ where he wants.
There is no human rights consideration nor any that takes illegality of implemented actions into account, nor consequences to the personal life of those he is knowingly manipulating the course for. The “silent” prisoners, in effect.
He implicates his networks with promises of direct benefits, and for this there are always takers. The Joseph Muscat political Ponzi scheme.
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Look what the Tribune de Geneve had to say about willing and informed investors into Madoff’s Ponzi scheme:
http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/Gerant-de-fortune-acquitte-dans-le-proces-lie-a-Madoff/story/17243973?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Joseph Muscat will eventually flick the damage by others to others off his shoulders.
Sudden random events are the most likely to bring full exposure and the man to account. Events lying within parametres of “the natural course of things” will have been catered for within the network.
Bir-rispett kollu, I didn’t know that patients were allowed free newspapers in wards. Maybe it belonged to one of the staff?
Labour never changes. If they can control what you read, they will. So much for ‘Je suis Charlie’ posturing in Paris.
It was standard practice in public places run by the government during Mintoff’s golden years.
They even used to boast about it on the grounds that ‘the other newspapers’ didn’t give the full picture of ‘the truth’.
Same goes for Boffa Hospital.
My sister was asked by the ward nurse if she wanted anything to read.
When my sister said yes, the nurse came back 5 minutes later with L-Orizzont.
Yes sure, now Busuttil shot himself in the foot with his support for the Yes vote. And the young people’s support for him flew out of the window. CLever move eh!
Why Muscat still leads Busuttil by 15 points is confusing. It could be that survey respondents are becoming afraid to tell the truth.
Muscat and his government have been taking wrong decisions from day one. Some of these decisions were resignation material and yet he still enjoys 15 point lead.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1532269167032970&set=a.1416998205226734.1073741827.100007497040512&type=1&theater
Some hunters seems to recognise that hunting shouldn’t be happening, but what seems to concern them is that “il-barrani does not interfere with the Malta Hielsa and all that PL tosh”.
Sincerely, is anyone surprised, this Muscat is a scam and a liability for Malta’s future.
In other words, you have to be stupid to vote Labour.
At this rate, to win more elections Joseph’s gonna have to pull a pol-pot.
This may well be the death-knell for state financed “higher” education in Malta.
If this is true, there is absolutely no doubt that we are back in the 1091-1987 era.
If this is true, there is absolutely no doubt that we are back in the 1971-1987 era.
The country that is educated by Xarabank.
‘…What amazes me is the “political ignorance” of the majority of university students and professional people, who still seem put off by just the name of the labour party.’
Eddy Privitera commenting Debono’s analysis.
He’s such a mascot.