This situation seems to have prompted Lino Spiteri to describe the present administration as a circus. Can you please give us one word to describe the administration he was part of during the Mintoff years?

Don’t worry, Tim. Dr Muscat will very quickly have to point out to 20,000 of his supporters that a) kacca is in its final days b) he can’t employ 20,000 “watchmans” and c) there isn’t a hope in hell of dishing out 20,000 government flats (Mrs Micallef really can advise him there).

Ergo, he will soon be turfed out.

Hopefully, the culture-shock of the PN finding out that they don’t have a ‘divine right’ to govern will shake out the party and force it to come up with a better alternative than (mostly Jesuit-educated) lawyers as the dominant force. (In a brief parenthesis, though John Dalli was no St Aloysius College lawyer, he was pretty hopeless too – merely throwing the middle class’s money at all our problems for 10 years, whilst coming up with a tax system that has been shown to be eminently fiddle-able).

Finally, once we’ve mentioned Dr Debono (or rather, his Six Hats), well, I knew this country was finished when I saw the PM attending a “business breakfast” (diga ddardrek l-espressjoni) starring the world’s greatest con-man himself.

So, all-in-all, despite PL incompetence, they will be in next time, no problem. . . . unless those who work/pay taxes are respected, as opposed to being crucified.

Trust me. Would be a best seller.

Very nice pic, Daphne. Time for the cover of ‘Style on Sunday’?

[Daphne – As if: Anglu Farrugia would sell the magazine faster.]

And hair implants?

Dear Tim, if you take 10 years to build a house and I take 22 months to demolish it, then you come back to rebuild the house, you would feel full of rage if I tell you that it took you 20 years to finish the house. It takes a minute to inflate a balloon, but only a fraction of second to burst it.

The best example was the freezing of Malta’s EU membership application by Alfred Sant: because of that, we missed the train and had to sweat blood and wait years to catch the last train.

I hope you know that Alfred Sant was PM on the MLP ticket from 1996 to 1998. An opportunist with the name of Joseph Muscat was one of his supporters. Would anyone in his senses want him for prime minister?

They were tried and failed miserably some 10 years ago. Is there the right climate for employment? “NO”, because the supply of workers is bigger than the demand for work in certain fields.

Am I happy with the situation in Malta? No, but who is happy with the situation in his country in these hard times?

[Daphne – Oh. It’s the one that’s been used with my column for some time now.]