With all due respect to PN leader Simon Busuttil, whom I support wholeheartedly – he will definitely get my vote if I amstill on earth for the next election – I feel that soft talk verging on the intellectual will not win too many votes.

One has to be crafty and rough to get people to the ballot box. Talking about the environment is water off a duck’s back for many, and Busuttil should come down to these people’s level.

I know it is hard but he must make an effort. I am hoping the PN can create a front as strong as the one at Tal-Barrani.

The party needs to call a mass meeting to tell the people what is happening in the country, to tell them of the scandalous distribution of the people’s money to persons placed in “positions of trust” and the deceptive new year message from the Prime Minister.

I am more than sure that people are not fully aware of what is going on.

They do not feel that the situation is worse now than duringthe 1980s. Then it was criminal; now it is a situation that smacks of subtle manipulation of the ignorant crowds.

The price of fuel is another issue. Muscat will not reduce fuel prices because the elections are still far away; he will declare a reduction on the eve.

He has succeeded in getting the Labour Party to gain control over nearly all the institutions. He is confident that the great majority of the Maltese are ignorant.

I fear he is right. And this is his winning card. So Busuttil must come down to “their” level and perhaps there might be a few who will give up watching Xarabank to listen to him.