By “balanced” I meant, of course, a fair and true picture of what membership meant for Malta. And the MIC did anything but that. I know, you know it and everybody who is not a fanatic knows it.

Seen any Sicilian hairdressers around? KMB, his side-kick and Sammy Meilaq are still pontificating on Smash TV. KMB with that perennial frown as if he had some lemon rind stuck between his teeth. Anybody ever seen him laugh? My grandma used to say that his frown could turn milk into gbejniet.

U mbaghad jghidu dawn li huwa ahna li kull meta jkun hemm l-elezzjonijiet tal-MEPs nfakkruhom li kienu kontra l-Ewropa.

GHADHOM kontra l-Ewropa.

U halluna. Ghandhom tahwid!

BTW Daphne, inzertajt qed nara l-gbir tal-bierah (prosit lil kulhadd :-)) u ma stajtx ma niddarras meta rajt lil Arrigo jaghti d-donazzjoni tieghu. Tela’ kiesah u biered (l-ohrajn kollha waqfu jghidu kemm taw u jawguraw il-festi t-tajba) kemm ta l-envelop u telaq. Veru li l-aqwa l-flus, imma deher li ffastidjat; issa ma jkollux ghand min imur ‘iqerr’ la ser jitlaqlu Dalli u jibqa’ jzomm go fih.

Nispera li elezzjoni ohra jiehu l-lezzjoni li haqqu.

Twanny,

Your comments show that, despite what Joseph Muscat says, the Labour rank and file has not yet come to terms with Malta being an EU member.

Not so. You of all people, should know that even the way you phrase a communicatio and the type you use can convey a message. And even on matters of hard fact you are wrong. See if you can fins one single MIC publication that explains Malta’s contribution to the EU in detail.

The MIC was 100% on the YES bandwagon. That is not even debatable.

PS: I see you were one of those who swallowed the “KMB said no to EU because of AIDS” spin. Who would have thought it?

[Daphne – I was there, Twanny. I remember sitting down over coffee with a friend who was at the British High Commission here and laughing so much over the ‘jekk nidhlu fl-Ewropa ingibu l-AIDS’ speech that KMB had just made that I spilled that coffee all over myself. It was around 1990. There was something else too that he said that time: about how we shouldn’t join Europe because Maltese women are so houseproud and in Europe everyone lives in rabbit hutches. Do you remember that one? Yes, right, Malta’s contributions to the EU weren’t explained….I think what you should really be looking at here is that your party is now led by Mr No to Europe himself, the one who needed hindsight to see that the Yes vote won the referendum, and the one who still hasn’t said he was wrong about EU membership. No, all he says – if you listen carefully – is that ‘heqq, we’re in Europe now and we have to accept it’. That’s a damn sight different to saying, ‘Sorry, buster, I was wrong – and stupid.’ Mur arana issa, li kieku ghaddiet tieghu. Kieku konna qeghdin sew.]

Yes, indeed, MIC’s was an “information campaign” not a Yes campaign. Do you always believe you’re speaking to idiots, Daphne? Or do you truly believe such idiocy?

Who’s missing which point?

[Daphne – There speaks the man behind No2EU.]

We had two parties (the PN and AD) promoting the YES vote and one party (the LP) promoting an alternative, such as it was.

We also had the MIC, funded from everybody’s taxes which was supposed to present a balanced view and which, instead, was part and parcel of the YES campaign in concert with the PN.

Those are the facts.

[Daphne – No, Twanny. The fact is that there were and still are more pros to joining the EU than there were and still are cons. People like you expected the MIC to invent cons where none existed, or to ‘balance’ the cons against the pros. Hence, if the MIC comes up with 50 reasons why Malta should join the EU, then it should also magic out of thin air 50 reasons why Malta shouldn’t join. The list of benefits in being an EU member was and still is much, much longer than the list of negatives. If you couldn’t take that on board – and clearly still can’t – then tough. If there were more negatives you can bet your last cent the Labour Party would have trotted them out. But it didn’t. Sicilian hairdressers, anyone? AIDS?]