The country needs truly a New Labour, even to the extent of creating a new Name for this Party, a Party that will reflect the New EU Malta, a Party that will respect pluralism and cosmopolitanism, a Party that will make people from all social strata feel they are welcome within in, in other words a Liberal Labour !

The definitive majority of the Electorate did not opt for a Nationalist Administration and still they got one. This has created disappointment and disillusion with our Political System. Malta must change its Electoral Laws and go for a three District System: Malta`s South - First; Malta`s North - Second; and Gozo - Third. That way the Electorate will have a much better say as to whom it wants to be represented by and see to it that it will actually achieve that objective.

There are MPs who were not perceived to be in Parliament; there are Candidates who had to be MPs but are not.Elections should be held every four years. No person should occupy the post of Prime Minister for more than two terms. Had Labour coordinated their internal efforts more and cooperated much less with the Party in Power, we could have had an objective Reform in our Electoral Laws. Instead the Electorate obtained Reforms intended solely to keep out Third Parties away from being People`s Representatives.

The people are annoyed because such amendments are not being made with the Voters` consent, just like the unjustified MPs salary and pension substantial increments recently announced even before the eleventh Parliament had convened.

Members of Parliament must remember all along that they are the Representatives of the People, that they must do what the People desire. Instead the first thing that protrudes from this Minority Government is that our MPs, Ministers, no doubt the Prime Minister & Leader of the Opposition,including Speaker & Deputy Speaker will be getting their proverbial pay rise at the commencement of this eleventh Legislature to ` compensate for the work they are sacrificing themselves in for the sake of our dear country `!


Labour are in the mess they are in only because of their own doing:the People wanted them in Government but found no solace in their political strategies. Currently Labour is in complete disarray. Their loyal supporters are aware of that. Hence why Labour must ash itself first and out of its own ashes phoenixise itself - thereby a new Party should emerge.

The Leader must be strong in every conceivable political sense. The rank and file must be listened to,must be allowed to voice their thoughts and opinions. The Party must liberalize itself from insular political perceptions - we are in Europe to remain in Europe, to restructure the Party on European principles and concepts, giving basic rights to each and every citizen, giving up the myth that politics is run on the idiotic principle of giving and taking so that it will always be a win win situation. The PN works like this,but the people want to feel at liberty to vote for whom they like and ultimately for whom they wish to lead and represent them.

Already the Minority PN Government is attempting to put pressure on the disjointed MLP Parliament Group on apparent matters of pairing and the Speaker carrot, but behind the apparency there will be obviously other horse-trading negotiations.This nonsense will not do for the Political Sovereign: the Government can either govern or not......if not, then the Country goes back to the Polls in Malta`s best interests.

The country expects a seriously-strong Opposition not to listen to comments about equal partners as if we had a Coalition Government when indeed we don`t and don`t want to in the current circumstances.The Opposition by whatever appellative called should execute its principal objective, namely to oppose constructively with suggestions, ideas and initiatives.It should not at no stage be the comforting nodding head of the Government to assist the latter achieve what it wants irrespective of the explicit desires of the Electorate.