Now, now, Daphne, are there not others in a similar boat?

Such practice is unfortunately global in character.

Actually yes come to think of it, at least I saw an ad calling for a project manager to be seconded from the civil service!

(Hi Daphne, sorry for splitting posts, perhaps you would kindly link the above two. Thank you.)

They are getting a few harsh words from you but certainly not from Gonzipn, as the elves like to refer to the government. FAA are getting a full-time project manager paid entirely out of public funds (i.e. out of our taxes). That is how much Gonzipn is dictatorial and anti-democratic. Can you imagine the MLP of Sant or the PL of Muscat doing the same?

[Daphne – Please furnish me with the details. Astrid Vella loves to repeat that she does it all on a voluntary basis and doesn’t receive a cent, and we are subjected to her regular protests about things being paid for out of public funds. Are you telling me that Mrs Vella will now have a salary paid for out of our taxes?]

A dear friend of mine apparently starts off his day by each and every morning telling his wife, ”Darling, it’s all over. Malta’s finished”…….Well, blow me, I’m just about to start agreeing with him. So thank you D, for giving us some hope!

[Daphne – Yes, a real hotbed of populist rebellion. Suggested fund-raising events: tennis tournament at the Marsa Club, bridge tournament at the Union Club and after that, a ballu tal-karnival at the Kazin Malti.]

Jew f’xi “”quiz night” fuq il-Black Pearl, mimli b’hafna nies ‘alternative’.

[Daphne – Perhaps they realise what an imbroglio they got themselves into, by trying to play Che Guevara from their middle-aged flats in Tower Road. Which reminds me that I’ve been meaning to say this: how bloody easy it is to be an ‘environmentalist’ in Malta in 2009, when you get treated with little more than benign tolerance and a few harsh words on a blog. I don’t remember seeing Astrid Vella at any Zaghzagh Ghall-Ambjent demonstrations in the early 1980s, though many of her contemporaries were there, getting beaten to the point of hospitalisation. Not just a fibber but a coward, too. Freedom-fighter my eye. And as for those people who put their names to her advertisement in The Times – wow, how brave, standing up to Lawrence Gonzi the Monster and Richard Cachia Caruana the Evil Wizard. I wonder whether they had the guts to put their names to any ‘I believe Peter Paul Busuttil was innocent’ advertisements in the same newspaper back in the Dark Ages, because I don’t remember seeing them. Ahjar ma’ nghid xejn. Why don’t they go and whitewash a couple of orphanages or do something useful with their time…l-aqwa l-posturing, halli nkunu nistghu neqirdu f’xi dinner party dwar kif ‘the people have spoken’.]