Voting for a party whose ideology you disagree with

Don't you hate that political orientation in Malta is all screwed up?

MLP, should have removed the word "Labour" from its name when Sant took over back in '92. When MLP was elected in '96 it didn't do a damn thing for the lower class. That government collapsed in '98 for this reason. Their 2008 election proposals promised absolutely nothing to that social class either. You can call Sant whatever you want, but you can't possibly call him a socialist.

In the last 10 years, the PN has moved so much to the left to win over votes from the lower class the MLP forsook, that it should ditch the word "Nationalist" from its name once and for all.

So we're left with 2 centrist Demo-Christian parties, with MLP slightly further to the right than PN. I can't help but feel sorry for those Torca-reading haddiema who think an MLP government would have led their class out of fascist hell and into socialist heaven.

A liberal party that can govern is nowhere in sight. Not only that, but the last election has shown that no member of a small party could ever get elected i.e. no small party will ever grow. Now that is totally fucking sad. What's the use of voting for a small party ever again? One cannot deny they are very effective as pressure groups though. Nowhere as effective as the Church, but effective nonetheless.

I am a liberal, and hence a floating voter. I don't say this with any pride - it would be great if PN and MLP weren't so damn conservative. But they are. I simply don't comprehend supporting a party when you don't agree with its ideology, unless the other option is much, much worse.

Recent events have shown us this may well be the case. The way Labour MPs have been acting in the last 2 weeks have been a total revelation. I thought Sant and his buddy Jason were the main problems with the MLP but it is evident now that they were just the guys taking all the heat. The entire MLP administration is fucking crap. The previous sentence summarizes their 100-page report on the election defeat. The country needs to be governed by organized people, first and foremost, whether there is corruption or not. What's the use of a government with zero tolerance towards corruption when it's fucking incompetent at everything else?

So what does this leave liberals with, the option to vote for the conservative PN party hoping it will become more liberal? Tough chance when it's led by Mr. anti-divorce, ex-head of Azzjoni Kattolika, nephew of the bishop tal-Interdett.

Malta: heaven for staunch conservatives (jesus-freaks who want to impose their lifestyle on everyone), hell for everybody else.