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25 maltatoday, SUNDAY, 6 MARCH 2016 Opinion Galizia never asked: where did that money actually come from? How much tax was paid on it? How was it actually earned? It is for this reason that otherwise intelligent, capable people like Roberta Metsola Triccas Tedesco are unwise to post YouTube videos of mass meetings addressed by Eddie Fenech Adami from the distant 1980s. That was a time when 'we' (myself included) looked to the PN to deliver us from the shocking corruption of pre-1987 Labour. Very emotional stuff… not the sort of legacy I would be in a hurry to squander right now. Yet we must now put emotion aside, and take a serious second look at that legacy once and for all. Can we still argue that the PN 'rescued democracy' in 1987… when a Nationalist Cabinet minister somehow amassed three million euros over the next 15 years, without ever giving a clear account of how or from where that money was acquired? Personally, I think it's time to re-evaluate those assumptions. Did the Eddie Fenech Adami era really put an end to the Lorry Sant phase? Or did it simply redirect the flow of corruption, just as Joseph Muscat seems to have done in 2013? And what is happening right now, even as the reality of the situation is increasingly visible to everyone? The Labour apologists are in full damage limitation mode – incapable of seeing how severely they have let honest, genuine people down – and the Nationalist stooges can barely even disguise their erections at the sudden prospect of an election campaign in which they actually have an outside chance of winning. Well, this is precisely the crux of the matter. My argument last Wednesday was that a PN victory at the next election will not solve Malta's endemic corruption problems at all. It will only perpetuate the failed two-party system, to nobody's benefit. The stooges and the apologists know that I am 100% correct to point this out – which reminds me: did I already mention the fact that I'm 100% right? I tend to forget little details like that, you know – and… well, what do you know? They hate my guts for it. What they evidently don't know is… that's absolutely all fine by me. Wouldn't have it any other way, in fact. And the reason couldn't be simpler. The alternative to being insulted by that sort of person is to be praised by them. And as far as I'm concerned… THAT is the real insult. To be 'approved' by the same sheep-like imbeciles who would flock to a Nationalist mass meeting to show support for one sickeningly corrupt party over another equally corrupt party… for no other reason than the warped two-party 'logic' outlined above. No, thank you very much. I will have none of it, ever again. But of course, that only raises the question – now being asked all over the internet, as the kind of social media bullying we all got a taste of in 2008 – of whom to actually vote for. Hmmm. What a dilemma. Let's think about it rationally for a second, shall we? Sound of mental cog-wheels turning, etc… EUREKA! I've got it! In the next election, I shall vote for… drums rolling… MYSELF! Yes indeed. What a fabulous idea… couldn't have come up with a better one if I tried (even though I did try… and managed, too… without even trying too hard.) But why would I want to do a thing like that, I hear you ask? Well, for starters… there are no other candidates who actually share my opinions. So for the first time in my life, I'd be voting for someone who could actually represent me in parliament, without automatically being an irredeemable hypocrite. For seconds: Malta' electoral system (though butchered beyond recognition) is actually all about electing individual candidates, not parties at all. Now: remember what I said about the two-party system having failed? Well, then… why not make it a failed 20,000 party system instead? Everyone out there who is disillusioned with the abysmal political morass our country has been incapable of extricating itself from since Independence… how many of you are there, anyway? A good few thousand, I would guess. How about we all register ourselves as independent candidates at the next election? All of us. Heck, if the regulations permit, feel free to register your dogs and cats, too (look on the bright side… those, at least, will certainly never be caught with Panamanian companies, or bank accounts in the British Virgin Islands. Of that much you can rest assured). And yes, I know what you might be thinking on a more practical level… none of us would ever get elected. It's a waste of time. And you'd probably be right there, too (let's face it, it can't be just me being right all the time: wouldn't be fair). But then, think of the alternative. The alternative is to carry on voting for a system we all all know has always failed, and which can never, ever, EVER hope to succeed in future. Not much of a choice when you look at it that way, now is it? POST OF SECOND SECRETARY IN THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF MALTA The Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, invites applications for the filling of post of Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service of the Government of Malta. Details were published in the Government Gazette No. 19,542 of Tuesday 1 st March 2016. Further information and details can be seen on the following website: http//www.foreignaffairs.gov.mt Applications will be received by the Department of Examinations, The Mall, Triq Sarria, Floriana and at Examinations Centre, Triq Fortunato Mizzi, Victoria, Gozo by not later than 16.00 hours Central European Time of Thursday, 24 th March 2016. Ministry for Foreign Affairs, tel. No.: 2204 2368, fax No.: 2204 2332, e-mail address: recruitment.mfa@gov.mt, The alternative is to carry on voting for a system we all know has always failed, and which can never, ever hope to succeed in future