You can criticize my English, but not my principles. I was lucky to have been brought up in a family where politics was discussed with an open mind. Sometimes my parents spoke in favour of the government and sometimes against. I never knew which party they voted for.

[Daphne – Why, were they too embarrassed to tell you, or were they afraid you would blab and get them into some kind of trouble? I find these situations really strange. I am not interested in your principles. They’re not under discussion, so don’t feel the need to drag them into it.]

I can see the good and the bad in both parties. What turned me and many others against your party is the way Nicole’s silly outburst was treated.

[Daphne – It’s not my party, Josephine/Grace. I just vote for it. I don’t have shares in it, work for it, or run it. And the way Miss Abela Garrett’s silly outburst was treated by the Nationalist Party is that it wasn’t treated at all, except with a polite press release by the man she insulted, saying that students will be students.]

Had she been ignored, many might have seen her as a heroin, others would have said she was very rude and all would have forgotten all about it after a few days. But the PN and their bloggers Fascist style wanted to make sure nothing like that would ever happen again, so they pressured the TOM to sack her journalist friend who was still on probation.

[Daphne – RUBBISH. I think you have become so accustomed to low standards in Super One and Malta Today, that you think other media organisations don’t worry about protecting their reputation. This issue was strictly between the new reporter and his employers – nobody else. Common sense should tell you that.]

Now Matthew Bonanno is a very popular guy, everyone knows he had no political leanings, so all youths who were still considering if they should vote PN or not have decided on the not.

[Daphne – How odd, not to have political views at 23. Very strange. That’s the age when we are most opinionated.]

As for my English books, I know it was a slip, Maltese is my forte and when writing English I do tend to slip, unless I’m careful. I’m not ashamed of this fact, just like some are not ashamed to write very bad Maltese, much worse than my English.

[Daphne – You should comment in Maltese then. It’s allowed.]

[Daphne – ‘Reading English books has been my hobby…’. Enough said. Trust me on this one, Josephine, even though reading English books is not my hobby.]

[Daphne – For crying out loud, the word ‘after’ in this context does not mean chronological order, or in sequence. It means ‘AS A RESULT OF’. Jesus wept.]

[Daphne – Mamma mia, this blog really is my penance for salvation sometimes. Jeffrey the Backstabber gave Joe’s name in court yesterday, and Joe spoke about it today, 20 hours later. It’s the first ‘admission’ that counts for these political purposes, not the second – unless you’re suggesting that Labour thought Jeffrey might have been lying under oath about this too, and waited to see what Joe had to say.]

Now really, can’t you see the new Progressive Socialists working so hard to impress and nothing seems to go their way?