Well, it couldn’t have been Nancy, that’s for sure.

As for my tone, that’s very observant of you, Jozef. It’s because I have little patience with unknowing idiots. Especially the ‘educated’ ones that inhabit these spaces.

I’m ready to follow you to the gates of hell itself, kev. But you’re all talk and no action. Tell us what we should do. Give us a plan of action. Give me orders, and I will follow them or die trying.

Kev,

I prefer your tone on Maltatoday. It’s not as hermetic.

But if that’s your style here, guess who was photographed at the Bohemian Grove.

Sitting next to Ronald Reagan.

La Redoute, why hello! How’s your knitting doing these days?

Whichever rut you’re stuck in, Angus Black, it’s parochial and narrow. This is useless since our money masters are located elsewhere. You’d need to identify what instruments of power and control are being applied by whom, and how these affect us all.

Climbing this mountain from the rut you’re is next to impossible. So it’s best to keep to hypothetics and partisan BS where you definitely excel. Don’t expect any hints from me – it’s like teaching thermodynamics to a shrew.

Ever thought of sticking your finger in the pie? With such amazing insight into the future, you’ve a competitive edge no hedge fund manager can match.

Kev, what would have happened to the Maltese Lira? Would Sant have backed it up? With what?

What would our economy be like if we did not join the EU?

How many more unemployed would we have lining up for the dole?

What major projects employing thousands would we have afforded?

Would we be experiencing black-outs because LP governments never planned anything ahead? How many arterial roads and village streets would a Labour government have built/re-built/ paved had no EU money been available? How many Maltese would be affording an overseas vac

ation each year? Would we still be driving 1971 cars, all rusted out?

Would our fortifications be left to crumble? While the MLP was good at dismantling (e.g. the lift) would it ever have replaced it or,at least thought of it?

Are these questions petty?

Need I continue, Kev?

Yes, our violin is smoking, all right and it will only cool off when the likes of you and your party act like you resemble a government-in-waiting.

You have waited long enough, you should be used to it by now, but no, your party is still anchored in the 70s and 80s when its only principle was ‘might is right’ and when the ministers chickened out (including the PM) there were always the thugs to carry out the dirty work.

‘If we want everything to remain the same, we must change everything.’

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

By the time we’ll be bailing out the bankers and their wankers – which is soon – you’ll even believe that they’re too big to fail and we’re too small to matter. Which means you’ll never understand what Iceland did to recover so fast…

Pepper, anyone?