Don’t forget to greet your husband with his bedroom slippers and pipe when he comes home.

Some people make a shrine to their adolescent idealisms, whether on the right or the left of the political spectrum, and keep at it until they give up the ghost.

Daphne: “And on average, men can live with dirty floors but dirty floors drive women nuts.”

This explains a lot.

I am not going into the merits of the case per se.

You say: “He doesn’t come out of this fuss at all well, and it strikes me that if he behaved as claimed with a local council, then how would he have been as a cabinet minister?”

The case highlights the dangers of MPs getting involved in matters which are not their business in the national sense.

It shows that persons of high office should not get themselves involved in matters not of their competence.

Our MPs are elected to be part of the legislature, not to interfere in local politics, or, as is often alleged, in other branches of the executive.

Besides, interference by an MP in local politics is democratically dangerous, since MPs will be exerting power where they have no right. The consequence of which is undue pressure on the local councillors involved.

I hope that after this case, a clause will be inserted in the Code of Ethics of MPs so that they are prohibited from interfering with local councils, their elections and their running.

There is no need to clean the house every single day so what’s so wrong and degrading with a wife cleaning the house?

For the past 21 years of married life, I did all the maintenance jobs; wall scraping, filling cracks, repairing small household appliances, painting, plumbing, repairing and changing leaking taps, water heater installations etc.

Household chores that no woman would ever dream of doing.

And you talk about sharing!

[Daphne – Actually, Herman, lots of women do those jobs. All the painting in our house gets done by me, for example. I find it relaxing. If I didn’t find it relaxing, rest assured that I would pay somebody else to do it. My approach to DIY is exactly the same as it is to cleaning don’t DIY. Pay somebody else to do it and use your own time more constructively or just take a nap.]

[Daphne – I am neither wealthy nor a teenager.]

You’ll be in a few years’ time … sweet sitTEEN :)

[Daphne – Ghad baqa.]

[Daphne – Yes, that’s about what they earn on average: EUR25 for four hours plus transport costs and refreshments.]

I wouldn’t know about this cult-leader. Sorry but never heard of him.

My point is that people do help politicians with sending copies of PQs to constituents, organizing parties, preparing mailshots prior to home visits, phoning constituents to arrange appointments, keeping a database on constituents’ cases, and a million other things. Can’t they also help him with housekeeping?

They need not necessarily be females. They might be males. They might be trans. Point is: the work is done with breaking any (ass-like) law.

[Daphne – Apparently, they do. A journalist I know has been door-stepping MPs for a feature about the subject and most of them have responded that they clean the house themselves with their wives, or that their wives do it. Joseph Muscat is one of them. I don’t know how he manages with that leg, miskin.]

Dear Sir,

You are, of course, completely correct in all you say. I have seen the error of my ways and shall humbly ask pardon of my family for having wasted the last 26 years of my life earning a salary.

I am guilty of cruel neglect. No more! No more shall I pay school fees and bills.

No longer shall I torture them with birthday treats and long weekends in Gozo. I am overcome with shame and remorse.

It’s my employer’s fault!

When I applied for the job he only asked to see my paper qualifications. The bastard never told me balls were necessary.

I shall now crawl off and Cook and Clean.