You should be grateful that you don’t live anywhere larger, because the differences between, say, Frankfurt and a Bavarian village, or Liverpool and Suffolk, or Milan and Catania, would really stress you out.

Il-mexxejja tal-partiti politici ghandhom ‘whip’ biss ghall-membri parlamentari (u fil-parlament biss) u mhux ghall-elettorat.

Ma nistghax ghaliha meta n-nies jitkellmu hekk, qisu l-vot taghhom huwa xi haga li juzaw fuq direttiva tal-partit.

Dan juri kemm il-Maltin ma jifhmux sahta dwar id-demokrazija.

Gozo is just a district in Malta.

I’ll repeat what I said to somebody else. When you receive the UK elections results soon, what you will look at is the overall result, and not whether Birmingham voted Conservative while Essex voted Labour.

When you see the UK election results shortly, will you much care whether the winner got a stronger vote in Birmingham than it did in Devon?

It is not that he said how he will vote that is the problem, but his choice of vote.

Don’t confuse the two.