Walking into Valletta earlier this week, I had one of those rare moments of revelation. An epiphany.

Joseph Muscat has promised all things to all men. However, there is one thing that he has not promised to do (probably an oversight) so far, and that is to restore the Royal Opera House to its former glory, or at least to roof over the ruins.

Think of how grateful those thousands of opera lovers, theatre buffs and culture vultures, who attend every ballet performance, concert and play regularly and pack the Manoel Theatre to the rafters, would be. The entire membership of the FAA would vote Labour. KZT and Astrid would vote Labour. The new middle class, whose ancestors, as Daphne rightly pointed out did not belong to the class that would have been allowed into the Royal Opera House in its heyday, would vote Labour.

Go for it Joseph. It’s a winner. It will pull in the votes like your pledge to reduce electricity and eventually also water rates.

Alfred Formosa

SLIEMA