"A Labour government would build on the success in the gaming sector..." said Joseph Muscat last Thursday, no doubt while he was in the flip cycle of his mode of electioneering.  Out of this side of his face, Muscat sends the message that Labour in government wouldn't be a return to the horrors of the Eighties and Seventies.  He was talking to operators in one sector of the economy but the message was clear.

There would be no centralised control of the economy, business would continue to flourish,  the success after success which followed the failure after failure of Labour rule would be kept in play

Out of the flop side of his no-longer so youthful face, Muscat sends out the opposite message. 

The erection of their latest billboard, hurriedly cobbled together after the PN snookered their obvious next one (it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where they were going with the hands over ears then over eyes) was accompanied by a blurt of publicity explaining the message - Gonzi talks plenty but does little.  No successes to build on.

The examples Labour used to illustrate their picture were the Smart City jobs, the promised but not delivered tax reduction and the matter of budget deficits.

I suppose they couldn't find, at such short notice, the queues of ITC graduates outside Smart City, probably because, duh, they don't exist. 

Perhaps, at the same time, they thought we really are as stupid as they clearly want us to think they think we are, because to whine about tax and deficits when the world's economy is in a flat spin is really an insult to our intelligence.

I prefer the flip to the flop, to be frank, but put them both together and you can see why it's too risky to trust Muscat with government.