[Daphne – IF that’s the case? It says so on top of the letter: The Times, Michael Falzon and the date. Believe what you like. You live in the free world.]

And Daphne has from time to time tried to convince her readers that she is not part of the PN media machine, yet she passes on stray emails to the PN media faster than it took Dr. Mintoff to realize that he had copied her in by mistake. What a joke.

[Daphne – It wasn’t me writing that, Uncle Fester. It was Michael Falzon, former Nationalist Party minister. I am quoting his letter in full. I think you’d better eat your words there.]

@ Daphne
What would YOU have done if it was YOU who received this email? Would you have published it (you yourself asked Dr Muscat to publish this email if it was in the public’s best interest)?

Re PBO, I guess that one mistake the PN council did this year was that they did not elect C Bonnici instead of PBO. In my opinion he was better suited than PBO.

[Daphne – This is what I would have done. If I had received the email, I would have published it. There is no argument for NOT publishing it, unless it is the trade-off of favours, which didn’t work in the PN’s case. They agreed not to publish Wenzu Mintoff’s email after he begged them not to. The ‘PL’ (because we’ve been bossed into using the new acronym now) didn’t return the compliment with Paul Borg Olivier’s email. Moral of the story: don’t expect non-gentlemen to abide by a gentlemen’s agreement; there is no scope for gentlemen’s agreements in politics. If I had SENT the email by mistake, I would have gone through with the consequences. I would certainly have never embarrassed myself further by crawling up to the unintended recipient to beg for it not to be published, thereby putting myself in that person’s debt. And quite frankly, I would rather have a government minister going around in a Jaguar than a prime minister who makes an inverted snobbery point of driving himself around in a white old-model Mazda while his ‘driver’ picks up a government salary for doing nothing.]

On the other hand, I heard a buzz that my comment was relayed to Austin by someone…..I wonder who?

It’s not going to stop me speaking my mind though. Its not the first time that I did so, quite sharply, even with Austin Gatt. He is a man who can take it! I respect him a lot for that!

Seems like you’d rather see citizens’ rights breached, than the party you support losing political mileage. But nevermind, you’re otherwise right about PBO’s qualities (or lack of). Don’t lose too much sleep … come election time this incident would have long been forgotten.