Better still, for Labour, clear policy is foreign.

Why not?

Before one attempts to educate you about the 70s and 80s, you must answer two questions:

1. Are you a Labour supporter by choice? or
2. Are you a Labour supporter because mummy and daddy brought you up in that kind of environment?

Anyway it amounts to either being misinformed, naive, unable to see the difference between the NP and the LP. or you have been brainwashed into believing that the 70s and 80s were Malta’s ‘Golden Years’!

Perhaps they take “mediation” as “being in the middle”. As in sitting on a fence.

No, seriously. Mediation needs carrots and sticks. We have neither. Whipping out a measuring tape and declaring smugly that we are halfway between Europe and Africa won’t cut much ice.

If the type of mediation KMB has in mind is that employed by him in the Egyptair disaster, then God help us all.

Iva, il-fantasija ta’ Malta f’nofs is-Sicilian Channel = Malta f’nofs il-Mediterran = f’nofs id-dinja = il-fulcrum ta’ kollox + pajjiz zghir = natural bridge between peoples and cultures = medjatur.

Wahda mill-fantasiji ta’ Peter Serracino Inglott u Guido de Marco din.

So, please, KMB if you have any bright suggestions for your friend Gaddafi, advise him to go to his tent and wait there until they come for him to take him to the Courts in the Hague for his trial for violation of human rights, murder and much more.

KMB can also oblige by being his defence lawyer because I am sure he will not find one to do the job in Libya.

Is this guy for real? What does he think then about having Arabic as a language subject forced down our throat in our teens at the time? For info, Arabic was a pre-requisite to acceed to government sixth form at the time.

Then on hindsight, I wonder the real reason of school trips organised to the Mosque in Rahal Gdid at the time. The Islamisation of Malta perhaps? Makes one wonder.

[Daphne – The tragedy is that his attempts had the reverse effect to that intended: he put us off Arabic when it should have been a natural third language for us, given that the structure and much of the vocabulary (though not the accent) are identical to our own. Now we refuse to learn it on principle, because it reminds us of those attempts to ram it down our throat.]

I think that you ought to (as in morally obliged) have this reply sent automatically to every email address you receive. A sort of Conditions of Use. You’ll have to remove the PTSD and visceral and sons bits, though. They weaken it.

I am no fan of either political gang, but what happened in the 70s and 80s was bad. It was bad for the country and for the people – irrespective of which set of slogans they chanted at meetings every Sunday afternoon.

[Daphne – This person will be doing nothing of the sort, I imagine, Reuben, because it turns it he’s not genuine, but one of those mentally challenged people here, posting as ‘Pantera’ and complaining about long I have taken to upload this comment: http://www.tasteyourownmedicine.com/index.php/component/content/article/2-main-blog/270-nidhqu-wahda#comments Weird and fixated like the rest of my stalkers, he has even taken the trouble of taking screen shots and uploading them here for his friends to check out – http://img.techpowerup.org/110227/Untitled330.png – evidence of how long I have taken to upload his comment because I am afraid to do so. Perhaps they think that when I sit down to upload comments and find 70 waiting, I am necessarily obliged to moderate them in order rather than in the most efficient way (short ones which need no moderation first, followed by those which need moderation, followed by those which require a reply).

The thing about these people is that they will not now have the decency to say that I took time to reply. Oh no. Now I wish I was properly rude to this chap instead of restraining myself. And yes, the fact of my sons is entirely relevant.It should be obvious to utter twats like this that they should not say “I’m only 26 so I only know about what happened yesterday” to somebody whose son is already in the LSE doctoral programme at 21 (and I won’t even mention the other two because the truth will give them indigestion with jealousy and lanzit. They prefer to console themselves by decribing them (and you really have to be mad and cut off from reality to do it) as drug dealers and rapists. Idiots. And cracked with it.]