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		By: Daphne Caruana Galizia		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Caruana Galizia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When people write this way, I find it very difficult to follow. Learn the skill of putting a message across succinctly and in concise form. It works wonders. I built an entire career on it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When people write this way, I find it very difficult to follow. Learn the skill of putting a message across succinctly and in concise form. It works wonders. I built an entire career on it.</p>
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		By: Daphne Caruana Galizia		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Caruana Galizia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/02/enough-already-with-the-genuine-labourites-and-the-laburisti-genwini/#comment-3074222&quot;&gt;Franco Attard Trevisan&lt;/a&gt;.

We have NOT had the same under Nationalist governments. That is a shocking assertion.

So what is your solution - that we all do the same, and nobody votes in the general elections? People who think clearly reason this way: we are going to get a government whether we vote or not, so it makes sense to choose the best people to govern.

And by best, I do not necessarily mean the most competent, but the best in character. When people are of good character, you can&#039;t go wrong. But when they are of bad character, all the good electoral manifestos and policies in the world will save the electorate from gross abuse of the nature we are seeing now.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/02/enough-already-with-the-genuine-labourites-and-the-laburisti-genwini/#comment-3074222">Franco Attard Trevisan</a>.</p>
<p>We have NOT had the same under Nationalist governments. That is a shocking assertion.</p>
<p>So what is your solution &#8211; that we all do the same, and nobody votes in the general elections? People who think clearly reason this way: we are going to get a government whether we vote or not, so it makes sense to choose the best people to govern.</p>
<p>And by best, I do not necessarily mean the most competent, but the best in character. When people are of good character, you can&#8217;t go wrong. But when they are of bad character, all the good electoral manifestos and policies in the world will save the electorate from gross abuse of the nature we are seeing now.</p>
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		By: Franco Attard Trevisan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Franco Attard Trevisan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 11:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For me, genuine Labourites and genuine Nationalists are both massive problems for this country. Free thinkers is what this country needs. 

The more  I follow politics, the more dead set I am on not giving my heads up to any political party. We&#039;ve had rampant corruption under MLP, we&#039;ve had the same under PN. We&#039;re at it again under the current PL government and we will have it again under whichever government we&#039;ll have in the future and the blame falls squarely on these diehards &quot;genuine&quot; voters because until the people keep voting for these con-men and close an eye for their wrongdoings, we&#039;ll keep getting the same shit only from different ass***es!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For me, genuine Labourites and genuine Nationalists are both massive problems for this country. Free thinkers is what this country needs. </p>
<p>The more  I follow politics, the more dead set I am on not giving my heads up to any political party. We&#8217;ve had rampant corruption under MLP, we&#8217;ve had the same under PN. We&#8217;re at it again under the current PL government and we will have it again under whichever government we&#8217;ll have in the future and the blame falls squarely on these diehards &#8220;genuine&#8221; voters because until the people keep voting for these con-men and close an eye for their wrongdoings, we&#8217;ll keep getting the same shit only from different ass***es!</p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Replaced with what? Go on.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Replaced with what? Go on.</p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/02/enough-already-with-the-genuine-labourites-and-the-laburisti-genwini/#comment-3073776&quot;&gt;Daphne Caruana Galizia&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;Nies ta&#039; rieda tajba&quot;. It was in Simon Busuttil&#039;s press conference. 

So the KNOW the word.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/02/enough-already-with-the-genuine-labourites-and-the-laburisti-genwini/#comment-3073776">Daphne Caruana Galizia</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nies ta&#8217; rieda tajba&#8221;. It was in Simon Busuttil&#8217;s press conference. </p>
<p>So the KNOW the word.</p>
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		By: Daphne Caruana Galizia		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Caruana Galizia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So then why not just say &#039;decent people&#039; instead of &#039;genuine Labourites&#039;?

For a start, the idiom is wrong. &#039;Laburisti genwini&#039; does not translate into &#039;genuine Labourites&#039; but &#039;true Labourites&#039;. You can&#039;t, in English, have a genuine person because &#039;genuine&#039; means real, as in genuine leather, and all people are by definition real.

They need to be told to stop it. Bad English doesn&#039;t win elections in the switcher category. I have yet to meet somebody I know who says, in conversation, &#039;genuine Labourite&#039;. 


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So then why not just say &#8216;decent people&#8217; instead of &#8216;genuine Labourites&#8217;?</p>
<p>For a start, the idiom is wrong. &#8216;Laburisti genwini&#8217; does not translate into &#8216;genuine Labourites&#8217; but &#8216;true Labourites&#8217;. You can&#8217;t, in English, have a genuine person because &#8216;genuine&#8217; means real, as in genuine leather, and all people are by definition real.</p>
<p>They need to be told to stop it. Bad English doesn&#8217;t win elections in the switcher category. I have yet to meet somebody I know who says, in conversation, &#8216;genuine Labourite&#8217;. </p>
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		By: Daphne Caruana Galizia		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Caruana Galizia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Genuine Labourites are genuine Labourites in much the same way that Franco Debono was a genuine Nationalist.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Genuine Labourites are genuine Labourites in much the same way that Franco Debono was a genuine Nationalist.</p>
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		By: Daphne Caruana Galizia		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Caruana Galizia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Labour Party will not emerge victorious.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Labour Party will not emerge victorious.</p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Un-fucking believable that Michael Briguglio should be horrified by the party he voted for.

I expect him to do the honourable thing and vote PN next time.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Un-fucking believable that Michael Briguglio should be horrified by the party he voted for.</p>
<p>I expect him to do the honourable thing and vote PN next time.</p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[She still cannot bring herself to say it. 

Weak as water, Jozef. Weak as water.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She still cannot bring herself to say it. </p>
<p>Weak as water, Jozef. Weak as water.</p>
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