Come,come Mrs Daphne(Ihope you dont mind) I dont think that “no, I wouldn’t . goes well with your character, I have always admired your fighting spirit and am certain you would fight “to the last drop of blood” to prove your point.

[Daphne – I meant that no, in his position I would NOT want the truth to come out. Nor does he. What he wants is to create the impression of a different truth to blur the real one. But then I would never have been in his position in the first place, because I know not to say those things even if it is what I think, and I wouldn’t have thought them either.]
This is your real character, something very admirable. This is what Mr Dalli is doing and far from being after vengance. He feels he has been wronged and wants the people who “stabbed him in the back ” to get what they deserve.

[Daphne – You have me all wrong if you think I’m that way. Nothing could be further from the truth. You are describing the mentality of a Sicilian peasant, and I am not one.]

Dear Mrs Caruana Galizia, I tend to agree with some parts of what you say, what I said reflects my desire to see Mr. Dalli back to where he belongs, that is back to the party where he still has a lot to conrtibute for the wellbeing of our country, what I detest is reading remarks like “the son of a passtissar” and similar remarks. What good can come out of such remarks, I don’t think Mr Dalli is after vengeance he just wants the truth to come out, wouldn’t you?

[Daphne – In his position, no, I wouldn’t.]

[Daphne – Nobody expects anything from him, Silvio. It’s not as though the man has any grace or understands anything about correct behaviour. That’s what got him into this mess in the first place. But that doesn’t mean we should stop discussing the mess he made. It’s impossible to feel sympathetic towards somebody who has spent the last seven years on a crusade of self-pity and vengeance.]

He hasn’t apologised Troy. He has sought to justify himself, which is different.

Serves him ruddy well right for taking up an offer which John Dalli made him only to irritate the prime minister and the perm rep in Brussels, and not because he really wanted him or because his work track record is excellent and perfect for the job. Now Dr Vassallo has the deal with the consequences of working for somebody who comes across as regretting that the Gaddafi regime collapsed because now John Dalli & Associates will have to start building networks of contacts afresh.

[Daphne – Silvio, what do you mean that you have it from Dalli himself that some of his remarks were interpreted out of context? Are you incapable of assessing the facts for yourself? What Dalli said is on the record: play the video. Listen to what he says. Then read the reports. And see that they were NOT taken out of context. What you will see is that his ‘statement of apology’ is actually a statement of self-justification, and that it contains at least one major lie that I could see: that bit about the fountain of democracy. Dalli is not even capable of coming up with a metaphor like that, and he certainly didn’t say anything about fountains of democracy at that business breakfast.]

What he says in Malta may matter in Brussels. The international media don’t pick up on his appearances on Super One because they’re in Maltese, but when he speaks English as he did at that business breakfast, then he should remember that European journalists are listening.

I hope he learns the lesson.