“Mr Puli chose not to take any staff compared to other Countries’ representatives who were all accompanied by delegations paid thru public coffers.”

I know that taking a delegation may have been more expensive, but then Puli would have not come through as taking advantage of his position. I think these are vital things to stay away from for start-up politicians, especially for clyde puli who started in politics presenting a propaganda style radio show and who haven’t really done anything so far to prove that he is worth these luxuries.

Politics is about perceptions, and the perception here was that he surpassed what was deemed to be necessary.

And honestly, Peregin was not that bad in his article, he could have, for instance, said that the Maltese athletes competed all their competitions within 6 days. The first athlete, William Chetcuti, started on 12/08/2008 and the last athlete, Nicolai Portelli, finished on 18/08/2008. And the flag raising ceremony being held on 11/08/2008. One week would have been enough for dear clyde and his family to support our brave athletes.

If you need all this confirmed have a look at the Malta Olympic Comitee’s website, actually here is a link for you – http://www.nocmalta.org/

“Took” his wife? Did she not go of her own volition? Did he have to drag her there? Is she a possession to “take” with him as he would, maybe, his underwear?

As I already stated in a comment above, the only deciding factor in him travelling economy class is the fact that his wife and child were travelling with him, and that he/they paid for their own tickets.

Can you imagine him travelling all the way to China in club class whilst wifey and child travelled in economy class? That wouldn’t have been quite right, would it? Somehow, I think that had he travelled alone, he would have grabbed the opportunity to travel club class. People with that kind of mentality (“ha niehu safra b’xejn!”) would normally do such a thing.

Mr Peregin could you please ask your editor (or should I say source) whether he enjoyed his 13 day visit to Australia funded by tax payers’ money? How much did it cost us tax payers? He might tell you that he was only doing his job after all? But then following the same logic wasn’t Mr Puli doing the same thing?

Mr Peregin please advice your editor that there are some of us…..who know what he did last summer.

[Daphne – Threats, now, eh? Blackmail attempts? Come on – if the editor of The Sunday Times joined the prime minister’s entourage to Australia, a trip paid for by the ‘government’, along with the editors of other newspapers, it was because the government wanted the publicity. Perhaps the government should cut out this habit of dragging the press along on major trips. If it’s of news interest, the press will pay their way. If it’s not of news interest, they won’t, and if it’s not of news interest, then they shouldn’t be there in the first place, wasting all that time and money to film the prime minister hugging old men who left Hamrun 70 years ago when they were 10.]