This week was one of those weeks - following my previous two blogs about adoption, I suddenly became flavour or the month (as Tanja Cilia so eloquently put it).

I was also preparing to take part in my first half marathon, and as fate would have it, so many other things happened, and they all crammed up for my blogging attention.

What to do, what to do?

Because of my innate inability to let things go, I was tempted to go on with the adoption discussion, but then I decided against it, reason being that when I said that I didn't want to enter a debate about whether single people and/or homosexuals are as capable of bringing up children as married people are, I truly meant it.

I've said it once and I'll say it till I'm blue in the face - there are good parents and there are bad parents, and it has absolutely nothing to do with whether they are married, single, gay or straight.

So, for now, I will leave that alone (albeit with difficulty), but I will be back with an explanation as to why our authorities took on and fully executed, what The Curia is calling a mere opinion which the Archbishop expressed with a religious person.

For the benefit of those who have been living under a rock for the past three weeks, and don't know what I'm talking about, here's a link to the full story – www.alisonbezzina.com

The other odd event that jumped up and down screaming for my attention was the announcement that Yana Mintoff Bland, Don Mintoff's 60 year old daughter, will apparently be contesting the next general election on the Labour Party's ticket.

Whatever happened to trying to convince the public that the PL is now different from the Mintoff years?

Whatever happened to trying to convince us that the seventies and eighties are gone?

Isn't it enough that floaters like me, who would really like to believe that the PL is a viable alternative, have to put aside the fact that old timers from Mintoff's time still form part of the party?

For all I know Yana Mintoff could be the most progressive and liberal politician on the face of the earth. For all I know she inherited none of her father's temperament, but from a public relations point of view, asking her to contest the next general elections on the PL ticket makes it straight to the top of the disaster charts!!!

Those, who like me, don't remember much of the Mintoff years, and come from a Nationalist family, have to live with stories about the horrendous Mintoff times.

We listen to stories on how people were denied their basic rights, how we didn't have anything, how the shelves were empty, how people couldn't not speak their minds, how violence dominated, and how you had to pay people in high places to get your hands on a colour TV. Personally I also have to live with how a decision Mintoff took, left our hospital in such a state, that resulted in people (like my brother) suffering for the rest of their lives.

In short, die-hard Nationalists try to put the fear of God (read Mintoff) in us floaters (read thinkers), and we try to counteract their fear by arguing that a lot of time has passed since then, that the party leadership has changed many times, and that we are now part of the EU.

But what do you say when Mintoff's own daughter is taken on as a candidate?

Even if I was convinced that she's entirely different from her father, how do I convince myself that the PL are not public relations idiots, for taking her on?

What's unbelievable is how the PN manage to dig themselves out of what was probably the biggest political public relations blow of all time (read Franco Debono), whilst the PL just walk into one voluntarily.

At this point, I'm left with one very green Alternative, and unless some significant events happen between now and election day, it will probably be the only viable option for genuine floaters like me.

 

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