The right word is uncertainty, not instability. And it’s because people are afraid of Labour being elected.
Isn't Edward Scicluna embarrassed at the situation?
I’ll explain to Labour why there is uncertainty (not instability; please let’s give words their correct meaning) in the country.
It’s because people in business, and by this I don’t mean developers hoping to have MEPA dismantled and their privileges back, fear the election of Labour.
It’s because people in general, and by this I don’t mean rabid Laburisti u dawk b’ xi lanzita daqsxiex, fear the election of Labour.
The uncertainty has hit the country suddenly precisely because the election of Labour has become a distinct and imminent threat. People would have had time to steel themselves against this if things had kept to their schedule, but the monster is at the door before they have had time to barricade it or make that all-important mental adjustment.
Supporters of the Labour Party do not fear the election of the Nationalists to government. They might hate it with a passion, because they think in terms of turns at the wheel and needs for change. But they don’t actually fear it. The Nationalist Party is not frightening. It is not a closed book and most of the time it seems to know what it is doing on the matter of policy.
And that’s why we’ve escaped the crisis that has eaten up our Mediterranean neighbours, put millions out of work even in northern Europe, and allowed us the luxury of moaning about buses instead of repossessed homes and redundancies.
But those who vote for the Nationalist Party, and more pointedly those who vote against Labour, fear Labour’s election. They fear it because of the facts of past experience and, more properly, because of the party’s current obliqueness.
That’s why Joseph Muscat has had to tell us repeatedly that Labour will be ‘safe for business’, that it will ‘allow us to work’. He says this because he knows we suspect that Labour will not be safe for business, because in all the experience we have had of Labour in government (18 years), it has been the precise opposite.
Every time Joseph Muscat and the Labour Party say that we need a change of direction, that we need a change in general, people freeze. And this is what creates uncertainty. Rodnick Abdilla, Byon, Quinton, Jason, Aaron and Moron, Nakita Alamango and Marisa Micallef and the rest of them might think that we need a change of direction, because they have not been blessed with the most acute intelligence and have other problems to boot.
But sensible people know that the last thing we need is a change in direction, that when you’re on the right tack you don’t perversely change it just to see what happens and – because this is a sailing metaphor – end up drowned or washed up on some remote beach in North Africa.
More fear and uncertainty are created by the fact that Labour has yet to show us a single proposal which we can read, consider and discuss. This means that we don’t know what Labour actually plans to do.
The fear increases as the suspicion grows that not even Labour itself knows this. It cannot speak about its policies because it doesn’t know what they are. It was worrying already at a year from a general election. It is absolutely disastrous, from the point of view of people in business and sensible persons in general, with all this pressure for an early election.
An early election – in which we shall be asked to vote for a party that hasnt yet told us what it plans to do, other than changing our direction.
There is more fear as it becomes ever clearer that the man Joseph Muscat earmarked to write his electoral programme is not up to the job. Anyone who encountered Karmenu Vella in a professional capacity over the last few decades could have told him this. Karmenu Vella is good at backslapping and asking people to call him Il-Guy (as in ‘kemm hu najs u minn taghna l-Guy) and he is good as truffling out business opportunities for himself personally. But that’s where it ends.
He doesn’t have what it takes and he never did. Add to that the fact that to most of my generation and up, he was the man we saw on trucks throughout the 1970s and 1980s, shouting and clapping at the side, variously, of Dom Mintoff and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici. And now he describes those years on Facebook as the Golden Years, a term the rest of us now use sardonically, for they were anything but golden for us.
Having given up on Karmenu Vella at this late and final hour, Muscat has announced that he has appointed Aaron Farrugia, a man in his early 30s and former Chief Elf of Labour’s notorious fake-letter-writing campaign to The Times a few years back (“I am a housewife from Sliema and used to vote PN. Now I will vote for Labour because of corruption.”) to write the electoral programme himself.
He has called him ‘is-segretarju tal-manifest’.
Labour’s electoral programme is going to be written by an elf who collects degrees without acquiring the ability to think and reason, and then it is surprised because there is fear and uncertainty in the country.
Perhaps Joseph Muscat is too young to recognise and identify the sentiment for what it is. So he can take it from me, an old and experienced hand. It is fear of Labour. Again.
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Veru mija fil mija. L-ebda Laburist ma jibza minn Nazzjonalisti lanqas jekk ikun wahdu kontra hamsin Nazzjonalist ippatentjati jaqbad jghajjarhom u jghidilhom li hu Laburist u kburi imma imbaghad ghadek issib mijiet ta’ Nazzjonalisti li jghidu li ma jzommu ma hadd u jitwerwru malli jhossu l elezzjoni vicin.
Tgħidli xejn kemm int kburi; lanqas ismek ma tuża. Mela tistħi?
Antoine ma fhimt xejn milli ghidt jien.
Completely untrue.The other way round if anything.Most PL supporters have to play the floater card wherever they go because the PN supporters would assume you are of the violent and ignorant type(due to blogs like these that work 30 hours a day to give that impression).And obviously saying you are a PL supporter is like saying “No I don’t want that job, you go ahead and employ someone from your own party”.
[Daphne – ‘Pretend you’re a floater’…well, I’ve known for a long time that people who say they’re floating (I always think of rubber Lilos when they say this) are just too embarrassed to say they’re voting Labour. Be proud of your choice, and if you’re not, ask yourself why. Why are you voting for a party that you’re ashamed to be voting for? Or more to the point, why are you ashamed? I say defiantly that I’m voting PN, even when surrounded by crowds of whiners going on about how they need a change. I love it. And no, people won’t automatically assume that you’re an ignorant savage because you vote Labour. L-ezempju ikaxkar. Now if you must insist on behaving like that, then blame your manners and conversation, not perceptions of your politics.
This blog does not ‘work 30 hours a day’ to create a bad impression of Labour. It contains my views, collects random items I find interesting or amusing, and serves as a forum for others to express their views too. I set it up because people who think as I do had begun to feel marginalised and in the minority, the media having been taken over and literally over-run by Laburisti and ‘we need a changers’. The common denominator of such persons is that they lack, almost entirely, a sense of humour, and anything they produce tends to be boring. The tension and negativity just leaps off the pages.]
Never said I wasn’t proud or ashamed of my political views. Though I was denied a vote in the last election for some reason though others were allowed.
[Daphne – Why would you have been denied a vote.]
You have dedicated your life to this politics game while I would rather go through it smiling and nodding when someone tries to start a political conversation, not because I think my argument won’t hold I just don’t care enough to.
[Daphne – No, I haven’t made it my life. It’s merely the most conspicuous part of my life. And it’s not politics, either, but writing about politics, which is wholly different. If you’re not that interested, you’re hardly in a position to have taken a proper decision on what party to support/vote for. That requires a certain degree of interest.]
“l-ezempju ikaxkar. Now if you must insist on behaving like that, then blame your manners and conversation, not perceptions of your politics.”
I never said people view me as violent and ignorant. But I see it often enough from my friends. When viewing someone being “hamallu” they go “mhux xi laburist injorant” or saying something like “le mhux hamallu ta dak nazzjonalist” or the classic “Le mhux il laburisti hamalli, il hamalli laburisti!”
[Daphne – Yes, well, you have to admit that this falls within the same kind of generalisation as ‘Germans are tall’ and ‘Maltese are short’. It’s not true of everyone but it’s ‘true’ as a generalisation. Take the mass meetings, for instance. Labour mass meetings are predominantly chav fests and full of rough-necks and tarty girls; PN mass meetings have those too, but are predominantly ABC1 and there’s no getting away from that. I always find it fascinating, studying those mass meetings: the atmosphere and the crowd are so different.]
And yes this blog does work hard to create a bad impression of Labour.
[Daphne – I don’t work at all hard. Apart from the fact that these things come naturally to me, Labour itself hands me material on a silver plate.]
It does so by cherry picking stories and careful use of diction (which I have to say if not so hateful, very impressive).Didn’t see that video of the nationalist supporter cussing and claiming victory over the speakers casting on this blog did I?
[Daphne – Diction is spoken, not written. My, you mean there’s one video of a Nationalist supporter cursing? Impressive. Should you be hanging around with a video camera the next time I stub my big toe, you’ll have another.]
“And obviously saying you are a PL supporter is like saying “No I don’t want that job, you go ahead and employ someone from your own party”.”
Bollocks of the year.
Malta is chock-a-block with Labour supporters and prospective MPs occupying the highest positions in the land, having landed there courtesy of a very naive PN administration.
Frans, with Labour one does not need to ‘assume’ anything.
We have proof of its past and present mentality which projects into future its behaviour should it be returned to power.
The fact is, that if its past was horrible and you elves consistently want us to forget it, then why does your leader declare himself as a Mintoffjan and invites back former ministers and MPs from the Mintoffian and KMB era? There is no assumption to be made here. These are facts and both the language used and the lack of (or secretive) policies, all point to another disastrous half decade if the MLP is elected.
Even the assumption that violence and corruption will not rear their ugly head since they were suppressed in the Sant years, would be dangerous. The mob which greeted the exiting Labour MPs while swearing and threatening government ministers are a bad omen should Labour govern.
The electorate seems to have a brief window of opportunity in order to evaluate both parties and satisfy itself as to which one is really ‘safe’, not by mere words but by deeds.
The choice should be quite obvious and indisputable.
Tell us something about the ACTA signing which took place last Thursday I think. PL is 100% against it I am told,but PN is in favour.
[Daphne – I have had no time to read up about it, but have been sent lots of material and various comments which I plan to use to start a thread once I’m done with a couple of very pressing deadlines.]
I’m sure you know more than we do, but the right answer should have been, I haven’t yet found a really credible scapegoat, I’ll write about it when I find one.
[Daphne – No, in fact I know nothing because I haven’t even read it yet. I planned to ring my ISP host too, because I saw that The Times quoted him and he is forcefully against it. I’m not a Facebookeser, Michael. I don’t shoot out comments because they are fashionable.]
nothing to do with facebook
ACTA would mean that you would be held liable should you post a link to a website that has anything copywriter being displayed. WordPress would also be held liable for your actions.
ACTA would mean the end of wikipedia, youtube, facebook, and most blogs.
[Daphne – How dramatic. Most things stop before they reach that stage.]
@Owen . I doubt that ACTA would mean the end of Facebook, Youtube and/or blogs. FB & YT already have a strict take-down policy if there are any complaints from IP owners.
The biggest worries about ACTA are the fact that it establishes a new controlling entity for itself (outside other known bodies such as the WTO), it removes “safe-harbour” for ISPS who now become executive enforcers of the treaty (three-strike cut off rule for internet users) and the secrecy behind the actual treaty content itself.
it looks like the vote was the other way round.
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/ACTA_resolution_MT
http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet_spread/?fFZZAbb&pv=306
@ gigi
Strange you should say that because all three Partit Laburista MEPs voted for the ACTA resolution, while the two Nationalists voted against it. Take a look: http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/ACTA_resolution_MT
Hekk hu. And we wonder why their criecer wave their pitchforks!
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120130/local/pl-says-its-meps-wanted-amendments-to-acta.404536
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120129/local/Fears-over-government-silence-on-internet-treaty.404257
Ha just in case m’emmintuniex.
I read that PN MEPs voted AGAINST ACTA (good) – remember ACTA is internet censorship like Labour wants it. And PL MEP’s voted in FAVOUR. ACTA is also against generic medicine like we have being produced in Malta.
ACTA is small fry. The original intentions were big; the final result among a very small group of participants is the least common denominator.
The most significant thing is that it is the first IP agreement relating to internet. Trust Labour to jump on a bandwagon without knowing what it is.
No wonder you vote PN pero, you can’t even understand a resolution, how am I expecting you understand politics. That voting which you are posting was a resolution against ACTA which as rightfully said Labour MEPs voted in favour of. The vote about ACTA will be held next June and PN MEPS are expected to vote in favor according to the party line. The PN government has already signed the treaty for ACTA to take place. YES because PN don’t give a damn about what you want, and yet you give him your vote
Small comment if I may.
Marisa Micallef is PAID to “think that we need a change of direction”. Therefore whatever she says, is and will remain, irrelevant.
They know there is no instability; they just hope to create it by dint of repeating the word.
‘People’ fear a Labour government. Fine. Now please, let us call a spade a spade. What, exactly, do ‘people’ think would happen under a new Labour government? Let us begin to call the demons by their name. I would like a list, please. Thanks.
[Daphne – That’s exactly it, Albert. We don’t know. It’s you who should be giving us a list, not the other way round.]
No, the onus is on the accuser…let us talk honestly and openly what these fears are. A list, please.
[Daphne – Albert. It has been spelled out to you many times already. 1. We don’t know what Labour plans to do. 2. We don’t think Labour is competent to do it.]
Albert, ask Reno Bugeja.
Joseph’s excuse was that the Nationalists aren’t subjected to all this curiosity, and this to avoid Reno’s question regarding the eventuality of an early election. Something he’s pushing for.
How nice.
“People” fear being governed by Labour because they do not consider Labour competent to govern, mainly because they are exceedingly susceptible to making the wrong decisions.
Oftentimes, those are decisions of great importance. Just look at Labour’s recent track record, on EU membership, for instance.
And “people” are convinced of this because Labour’s makeup consists of individuals who reason in a faulty manner, and to show affinity to such individuals must mean that one’s own reasoning is faulty, too. So Labour’s talent pool is almost exclusively composed of these sorts.
It’s self propagating – sorry for the analogy, in no way do I infer any connection, this is only an example – but, say, a neo-Nazi group would only attract individuals with similarly damaged personalities. You’d never get “nice” people forming part of such a group, so it would never become a group for balanced and reasonable persons and nor would the group ever be.
I saw Emmauel Mallia on Bondi+ last week. I have had occasion to meet with Manwel in the past. He’s no fool, that’s for sure. Why he has joined Labour, I have no idea, but I suspect that his ambitions are great – possibly very great.
I have written something to this effect before, in a different context – it is far easier to shine in a class of fools than in one of geniuses.
Manwel is way above possibly anyone in Labour, and I am sure he knows that very well indeed.
Ignore the way he spoke on Bondi+ and the way he beat about the bush, for very evidently he was just toeing the party line however ridiculous it may be, and using his skills to camouflage it.
Perhaps he’s on a mission. I could well understand the motivation for it, perhaps at his age it is perfectly altruistic. He certainly does not need any “benefits” that may, correctly or otherwise, be associated with an elevated position in politics, except perhaps the prestige.
But Joseph et al, or at least all those in Labour with ambitions of a personal nature, should watch their backs, because a cat is among the pigeons.
“but I suspect that this ambitions are great ”
should obviously read
“but I suspect that >>his<< ambitions are great "
Not for publication, just a correction since the facility is not available to me. Sorry for the trouble.
Somebody once told me that they choose a side where they feel that they gain the most power and influence then the milk it for all its worth.
I only vote on policy, all else tends to be irrelevant.
Albert, our biggest fears are
1) that a new Labour government won’t be able to keep the lid on its violent supporters
2) that it will again stifle freedom of expression
3) that it will rule by diktat, with no room for dialogue
4) that it will politicise the civil service and parastatal corporations and organisations
5) that it will pander to its supporters’ notion that the world owes them a living and feed them with sinecures and handouts, thereby putting a huge strain on the economy
6) that it will fail to attract investment in productive industry
7) that it will be incapable of taking unpopular but necessary decisions (such as charging realistic prices for water, electricity, petrol and gas)
These are genuine fears, based on real experience and on the fact that the Labour leaders who did all these things in the past are still there.
We hope against hope that they will not happen. I, for one, believe that – thanks to the civilising influence of over 20 years of PN government – things will not reach the depths we reached in the 70s and 80s.
Frankly, the worst thing about the Labour Party is that through its failure to provide a serious alternative to the PN it has allowed the latter to govern rather inefficiently and expensively for so long.
If, instead of using it as a political plaything, the Labour Party had had the gumption to agree to close down the Drydocks years ago, for example, they’d have saved the country over a billion euros.
The world has changed since the 70s and 80s. It’s no longer possible for state-owned enterprises to charge abominable fees and make huge profits (as Air Malta and Maltacom did). We cannot fence the world out but must compete on a global scale, despite our disadvantages in size and geography. The PN has at least understood this and to a large extent its supporters have too. The most frightening thing about the Labour Party is that it has failed to do so.
“Violent elements”? Like those gathered at Palace Square last Thursday?
[Daphne – Those were Labour, Albert. Or didn’t you notice? Marru biex jiccelebraw ir-rebha.]
Daphne, fully agree with what you say.
The biggest irony is that it is the Labour Party itself that is calling for an election, and saying that it is ready for one. And yet, they have not told us any policy as yet.
So, they must now do what they said they will do. If they think the election should be next, they should now publish their plans. It doesn’t need to be an 800-page Pjan ta’ Bidu Gdid.
Otherwise, they should at least tell us when they think that they will be ready with a plan.
Otherwise, we would be right to conclude that Labour’s plan is that there is no plan.
Now, now, Muscat himself said that there is a plan. Admittedly, he said that in case of an early election they would have to go for “Plan B” (JM’s interview of Bondi+; I don’t have the actual quote at hand).
Because that’s what we need right now. A friggin’ Plan B.
By the end of its 5 year term, Joseph’s Labour government would have exhausted all plans to Plan Z, and we would still be asking: What is Labour’s plan?
Edward Caruana Galizia put it so well under another blog post:
Most of us vote Nationalist to protect our country.
The election – whenever it is called – should be christened the ‘Lucky Dip’ election …
What’s scary is that Labour was not even capable to read into the Franco Debono-Gonzi situation well and presented their pathetic no confidence motion, which failed, so how on earth could anyone trust them to run our country?
Businessmen are already keeping their fingers crossed. I know this for sure.
My work gives me the pleasure of working a lot with self-employed people in the business, and it is true what Daphne says: that they are afraid of Labour although this is not the Labour party of Duminku Mintoff or Karmenu or Alfred Sant so things are slightly changing.
But I definitely do not agree that Aaron Faruugia is not a capable man and is not fit for the job he was entrusted with and find it a bit too stretched that their is uncertainty because of labour! nevertheless good article with no personal attacks!
One person should not be entrusted to write down an electoral programme for a party. This should be the work over several months of work groups and conferences and position papers.
So if you entrust someone to write an electoral programme it has to be the leader himself and not just an ‘elve’.
Joseph Muscat knows only too well that people fear Labour, and he’s trying hard to change that. But changing the emblem and wearing blue ties does not take away the fear in people.
People fear the evil Anglu Farrugia, the venomous AST, the ill-mannered Joe Debono Grech, the double-faced communist Varist, the hapless sailor Karmenu Vella and all the extinct dinasours that the labour DNA brought back to life.
Well said Daphne, as usual!
Business people know that under the Labour Party their business will go slow. No matter what Labour says, the economy under them is always stagnant. Look at the Labour years and you will see this.
The uncertainty that we have at the moment, Joseph Muscat, is you because if are in power we don’t know what will happen. With the PN in goverment the economy always flourishes, and people do well.
That’s why we vote for the PN, because business goes well.
Meanwhile in Spain unemployment was last reported at 22.85 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/spain/unemployment-rate
And in Malta, we have a Labour opposition which WANTS to throw the country to the dogs, just to gain the seat of power.
Joseph Muscat is even more dangerously irresponsible than expected.
Hawnhekk hawn hafna nies li jahsbu li forsi Joseph Muscat orrajt u se jippruvawh bhal meta nghidu ahna se nibdlu it-trab tal-hasil biex inxommu xi rieha differenti.
Hemm zewgt iqwiel Maltin li jixirqu ghal meta nkunu mifxulin biex naghzlu:
“L-ispizjar milli jkollu jtik”.
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“Tiehux il-hall biex isirlek inbid”.
Dr Muscat l-anqas biss jitniffes meta Gonzi jigi f’xi sitwazzjoni prekarja bhal tal-Libja, joqghod gallerija u wara li jkun mohhu mistrieh li ghadda kollox johrog jiftahar li per ezempju kien qed jahdem bla heda l-boghod minn ghajn in-nies.
L-Amerikani jghidu “If it’s working don’t try to fix it !”,u “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know”.
“Dr Muscat l-anqas biss jitniffes meta Gonzi jigi f’xi sitwazzjoni prekarja bhal tal-Libja, joqghod gallerija u wara li jkun mohhu mistrieh li ghadda kollox johrog jiftahar li per ezempju kien qed jahdem bla heda l-boghod minn ghajn in-nies.”
Jien niftakru meta qal li Gonzi ikkonsulta hafna mieghu u li il-gvern mexxa tajjeb. Bhallikieku hu ta il-pariri lil-gvern ta’ Gonzi.
So how come we should vote Labour when these same unexperienced people like Anglu Farrugia, Silvio Parnis etc. are telling us that we need a change of direction?
We all know what happened to our economy and political situation when the old people still within the NEW PL were ministers between the 70s and 80s.
I honestly cannot understand the promise made by Joseph Muscat himself when he said that he is going to give us the best people to govern this country if he is elected. Can he at least mention who these people would be and which ministry they will be responsible for?
So the parliament who we are not sure is able to pass any legislation at the moment will not meet to TRY to pass some legislation. And when someone points this out they say he’s creating instability and uncertainty?
Unbelievable!
[Daphne – They are not pointing that out. They are pressing for an election. They being Joseph. If he had any strategic ability at all, he would not be doing this. The election was just a year away anyway. Exactly why he is trying to rush it is anyone’s guess. The thinking is crazy. The damage to business is great.]
No the uncertainty is already there because GonziPN couldn’t keep his backbenchers in order through bad leadership FULLSTOP.
[Daphne – I wish on you somebody like Franco Debono or Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. Believe me, at the end of it you would be stretchered out dosed on Librium.]
If you expect any opposition in the world to just sit back and go “Oh no take your time, sort this out, do whatever it is you need to do just tell us when you’re ready and we’ll meet back at the parliament in say 3-6 months”.
I’m sorry it just doesn’t work that way.
[Daphne – In fact, that’s exactly the way it works. The national interest comes first, before the interest of political parties. We – and I say we intentionally, to mean the country – are in this mess because of the egocentric behaviour of two men, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Franco Debono. Jeffrey made Franco possible, by spending three and a half years undermining the prime minister, with a little help from his spiteful, vengeful friend Mugliett.]
I got as far as, “It’s because people in business, and by this I don’t mean developers hoping to have MEPA dismantled and their privileges back, fear the election of Labour.”
Are you serious? The developers have been raping the environment for years now with the help of the Government through their authority MEPA. If anything they fear having MEPA dismantled and something useful put in its place!
[Daphne – Highly amusing, Joe. Which is why, I suppose, Sandro Chetcuti, developer extraordinaire and boss man of the developers’ lobby, raises funds and organises meetings for the Labour Party, and why he is currently being defended in court on his GBH charges by fellow Labour Business Forum member Manuel Mallia.]
This is called survival and obviously Sandro Chetcuti is backing the party he knows will be in office soon. This is common amongst developers in Malta and as the election gets closer you will probably see more jumping ship.
Also I wasn’t aware of the rule that stated that lawyers who are members of the Labour Party couldn’t defend developers who contribute to their party. Could be another reason for Sandro Chetcuti’s contributions to Labour, to get cheap rate defence in court. Well you never can tell with this country can you?
I don’t want to play the devil’s advocate here but surely, if the Nationalist government’s record was so brilliant, why should it have to rely so heavily on the “scare” factor?
Personally, I think the real middle class – as opposed to the wannabe mittelklass – are sick to the teeth of footing the bill for gross frittering away of our hard-earned and heavily taxed euros. The new airport was budgeted at 16 million quid, it ended up costing 24. Mater Dei? Say no more. Roads meant to take 6 months (admittedly under that * * * hole Mugliett) took 2 years to do. The Cirkewwa terminal . . . 12 years (?) and counting. Wasn’t VAT meant to result in reduced direct (income) taxes? Yeah, right!
PN seems happy to bleed us dry, mostly to pay a bloated army of civil servants (sic) do work that’s got exponentially easier over the last few years thanks to IT.
They’re scared * * * * less of psychotic kaccaturi and do very little about many land usurpers (though, in fairness, Dr Jason Azzopardi has made some effort here and did a lot to correct socialist aberrrations. He really is a superb PS).
And, if I may be allowed to comment on an area where I have a personal interest and a certain amount of experience, I can tell you that the PN in government did precious little, if anything, for the local sign-based deaf community.
I don’t think anyone can dispassionately argue against the PNs track record on health. But again, there’s room for improvement, especially when it comes to getting the most out of our medical professionals, a lot of whom like to have both sides of their bread buttered by working a few hours at MD (to get their state pension), then go onto a lucrative and quite possibly undertaxed private practice.
The bottom line, I feel, is that the PN is great on principles and incorrectly assumes that this is enough. It isn’t. It’s useless having the principles but making a pig’s breakfast of their execution. If they want to have a serious chance at the polls, they need to go back to the grassroots.
@Chris Ripard
You seem to be impressed by Dr.Azzopardi’s performance. How come you refer to him as PS….he was elevated to Minister more than two weeks ago.