Interesting to learn that you too follow this blog, and have now also contributed – very good!

I must say that I was wondering what has become of you; last time I saw you was on Net TV about a year ago(is that correct?)

I truly hope you are in good health. I was wondering – now you seem to have come back to the Labour fold thanks to JM, do you plan a sort of comeback in politics? Do you plan, through your decades of experience, to give a valuable contribution to the Labour party?

“Healing?” “Brothers?” All these underlying pseudo-religious tones simply make me want to wretch. Whatever next? St Joseph Muscat Salvatur ta’ Malta?

With the poodle trying to emulate those corny American-style “Jesus loves you” rallies, the only thing left for him (JM)to do was get all his proverbial “lost sheep” “back home” in a trance, if not a hysterical state.

Incidentally – Will JM be drawing “Mintoff, the father of MLP” back into the fold, I wonder? Imbaghad inkunu veru laqqattna l-borma!

Not quite: Strayed as in “moved away from” as in” distanced oneself from”. I know you are an able provocateur but nit picking is below you. You know very well what I meant.

Eve wrote: Joe Grima. Heqq it’s always convenient to have the right friends in the right circles, if not for your personal gain maybe for the good of the family in general. U ejja does it take just a little coaxing to move you? I thought you were more solid.

Personalising issues only demonstrates the baseness of people who do. You must be a Nationalist but in bringing in my family into the argument you are only parroting the worst of Alfred Sant and his hate mailers.

My problem was with Alfred Sant and his wierdo policies and utterances. Now he is gone without the slightest shadow of a doubt. A good promising leader for the MLP after Sant, with the right qualities , was all I needed. I supported both Joseph Muscat and George Abela, each one for a different set of reasons as I said on The last Xarabank I took part in. I would have returned to the party under either of them. No question of coaxing. The raison d’etre for my distance from the MLP ended with the poltiical end of Alfred Sant and the birth of who I think will make a new, effective Leader, all the more so if George Abela takes up Joseph’s offer and joins in to make the Labour Party electable again.

Got that? Do I need to repeat slowly so that will take it in? Tell me if you you have a problem with simple English and I will traslate into Maltese for you.

Just pulling your leg assuming that you have two. I am sure that after your reply I will need to pull your other one. What a way to spend an evening!

To Poodle: Me buried? Your next appointment should be with a reputable optician because I can detect an acute case of Myopia setting in. To start off, how could someone my size be buried without actually being put under the ground? How can you bury someone with my keen sense of protagonism? For seven consecutive years I conducted popular programmes on Net TV ( in the top ten for the last year that I was on Net TV) . I spent at least eleven years writing for the Independnet on Sunday wacking Sant week after week. I have been writing for di-ve.com ever since the internet portal opened. In what sense have I been buried Mr knowall?

Sunshine: you seem to be well into what goes pon at PN HQ and at Net TV. So I was kicked out, was I? Where did you get hold of this highly sensitive, top secret information I say? Since you know so much about my , so-far undisclosed , ignominious exit, I will quote a few names of some of the people I know could have done it. Put your finger on the one who you know was responsible for my ouster from Net TV: Lawrence Gonzi, Joe Saliba, Angelito Sciberras, Gordon Pisani, Louiselle Vassallo (Chief of all media) , Pierre Portelli, The Cabinet, The Nationalist Executive, The Nationalist Consellors, The Nationalist Mayors and Local council members, In nisa Nazzjonalisti, Kate Gonzi, L-MZPN, Li studenti Demokristjani, Il Konferenza Generali tal PN, Have I missed someone?

Jealousy will get you nowhere, baby!

Me , trying hard to get back? Why would you think I would do that? Am I waiting for some Gobvernment job? Do you think I am waiting for Joseph to be Prime Minsiter , when I will be 77, so that I will be appointed Chairman of something? Why dont you get a life and face the facts.

Joseph is one of the few honest politicians I know who follows through on what he says with impunity. He said that he wants back all those who had strayed from the Party and I am one of them. He said that he will personally go for anyone who has been out of circulation in MLP circles and he did. He came for me when he did not have to. I wanted to have his assuance that he was not what I suspected- Alfred Sanr’s long arm into the future. He said enough to convince that he is nothing of the sort. Since our meeting he has said much more that strengthens my conviction of his independence from anone else. On Sunday I went to the Rally because he invuted me to be there. That event will remain etched into my memory forever.

Does it look to you that I was chomping at the bit in order to be taken back in the Party? Accept that Joseph Muscat is different. He is a breath of fresh air after the stench left behind by Alfred Sant. He is Malta’s new style of making politics.

[Moderator – Interesting. When people say that they have ‘strayed’ from something they usually mean that they have deviated from the norm. So I suppose that all along the Labour Party has been a beacon of normality, while you have become a recluse. Is that it?]