Would you like to be a bit more specific?

99% of the posters on this blog use just a Christian name, like me, or a nom de plume. You have never complained. Is it just mine that bugs you?

[Daphne – Twanny is a Christian name? There is a saint called Twanny?]

True. Were out Saturday evening and couldn’t get a table for love or money. Long queues everywhere, even at the grottiest of restaurants. We ended up getting pastizzi from Maxims, and even there we had to queue up for a while. And what VAT anyway? Most restaurants don’t even give you a VAT receipt. Is Joseph Muscat for real? Tax tourism and entertainment and not health, manufacturing or education. Muscat has his priorities all wrong.

While you’re at it, maybe you could also tell us what you think of Toni Abela’s beige “sjuwt”, Muscat-and-Michelle’s yellow tie and blue scarf combo, and the backdrop of Maltese and EU flags – or, rather, the lack of Labour flags. Who knows? Maybe they’re still trying to come up with an emblem for the Koalizzjoni Nazzjonali.

Please also tell us what you think about this brilliant piece of Labour advice to pull Malta out of recession:

“6. Reduce VAT for restaurants as recommended by the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association”

They can’t really be serious about it. Most restaurants tend to be bursting at the seams with patrons. The ones that are not are simply not good enough or are over-priced, and what they need is to take a good look at what they’re doing, not a reduction in VAT. If there’s one thing that Maltese people won’t give up on, even when the going gets tough, it’s their “harga”, which consists not only of a meal out, but the accompanying outfit, hair extensions, nail extensions, etc.

If anything, keeping the VAT level at what it is – or even increasing it – could go some way towards helping combat obesity.

And what a break. While in far off lands Barrakka-Bama has just declared the long-planned, agenda-setting ‘martial law’ – otherwise known to you as a ‘gnashynill imajensey’ – here in the district of Pollyanna the isle’s wannabe Establishment seems to be the only problem. Not even Peppi’s mouth watering expose of Malta’s version of the occult could make it to this shelf’s notice board.

Kudos to you all. But do call me when you wake up. I’ve prepared a special brew for you and it has nothing to do with my book ‘Rajt Malta Tinbiegh’.

Am I missing something here ? “the same people who were in the MLP and in the police force 30 years ago were asked to return by Joseph Muscat and are now in the new LP.” I bet you are referring to Anglu Farrugia. I don’t know of any other activist in the LP who was in the police force back then. Maybe I’m wrong please let me know. First of all Anglu Farrugia never made a return. He was already MP before Joseph Muscat took office. If anything it was the party delegates who elected Anglu Farrugia, not Joseph Muscat. Blame the party delegates, not Joseph.

It’s obviously very convenient for some people to blame Joseph Muscat for anything imaginable.

On another note. Eddie Fenech Adami back in 1989 had full trust in Anglu Farrugia and elected him deputy police commissioner.

Ejja naraw il-fatti sew qabel ma nibdew nitfghu it-tajn.

[Daphne – Deputy police commissioners are not elected. They are promoted to their position, and not by the prime minister.]