How to sabotage any notion of civil society distanced from self imposed mainstream party politics.

Truly insidious.

Joseph Muscat’s Taghna Lkoll mantra ” …irridu nkunu l-ahjar fl-Ewropa”.

‘NOTHING is as important as my crown.’

Both the Nationalist Party and the Labour Party are scared sh**less of the hunting lobby, the Armier squatters etc.

If they continue to be held to ransom by these legitimate and illegitimate special-interest groups, they’ll soon end up irrelevant to the much greater majority, law-abiding lot.

Then, whichever of them is in government will have to live with either a lone, maverick politician within their own ranks presenting a private member’s bill for a referendum or a group of civic-minded individuals doing the same.

It’s already happened under the immediate past and current two governments.

Simon Busuttil has said that he’ll be voting in favour of the derogation and we know he’s against hunting in general, not only of the spring variety.

Toni Abela has said the same thing and he’s behaving in the same manner. Now, why does this make Toni Abela a sophist? More to the point why did you provide a ‘defence’ of sorts for the position adopted by the PN (irrespective of what the pundits think, who have come out of the wormwood only now, conveniently after the fact)?

[Daphne – Well, I guess you’re the sort who reads things in a haphazard fashion and haven’t read what I wrote about Simon Busuttil’s stance.]

B’hekk jinxtamm ifuħ maż-żewġ naħat – Iva u le fl-istess ħin.

Din bħal tal-‘pushbacks’: Jitħassru lill-immigranti li jissugraw ħajjithom fil-baħar, imma talli l-Ewropa ma tridx tieħu immigranti allura japplikaw il-‘pushbacks’.

Fiż-żewg każi Abela jirraġuna li m’għandniex inkunu “kattoliċi iktar mill-Papa”.

M’ghandu xejn xi jghid.