I take umbrage at that ‘not a woman’ remark. Sexist and factually incorrect. I thought JPO was a twat and you didn’t – and I’m a man and you’re a woman.

Do you really think Joseph Muscat doesn’t have many tens of thousands of female supporters, simply because they are women and thus know he’s a twat too?

Daphne, you know I admire you immensely but this female-supremacist act lets you down.

My point is that the whole country risks being lumbered by a prime minister who was elected leader of the PL ( over people like Goirg Abela and Michael Falzon) by a bunch of illiterate or semi-literate delegates..

Well, I’m neither blind nor a woman, and your opinion about the man is yours and that’s fine. But it is an opinion, not fact.

I don’t think you are correct in painting the picture of fear that you are painting of JM as PM. I don’t think there is anything in his behaviour as a politician, in the European Parliament or in the Maltese Parliament, that justifies the characterisation of the man as “Selfish, egocentric, blind to reality and dangerously irresponsible”.

I think he has made some mistakes, the latest one being the moving of the vote of no-confidence motion (which makes him look power hungry and opportunistic rather than statesman like), but I am not scared witless by the thought of JM as PM. I’m also not convinced that he will win the next election, whenever it may be.

Meanwhile Fredu was on TV this morning with that evil smile of his enjoying the collapse of the Euro..

Hence the hurry biex iwaqqa l-gvern. Next year he’ll be too old to be the youngest.

We know Joseph in his capacity as a Super One reporter.
We know Joseph’s rabid campaign against joining the EU.
We know Joseph’s democratic way of preventing ‘pairing’.
We know Joseph’s welcoming back relics of the 70s & 80s.
We know Joseph’s anti BWSC and pro-Bateman and Sargas.
We know Joseph’s U-turns and brilliant ‘hindsight’.
We know about Joseph’s skip and how full it is of renegades.
We know of Joseph’s vast talent pool of semi-literates.
We know Joseph’s ‘earthquake’ of logo and name changes.
We know of Joseph’s evil media empire and lies factory.

Yet we know not of one single policy matter.
We will hold him to his 51 fantasies which he should tie to votes of (no)confidence should he fail to deliver.
We shall keep track of his ‘successes’ in the international fora.
We shall see that he holds no State dinners, since he will not attend them but rather prefers a humble ‘hemberger’ with Dik and the twins.
We shall see how he handles the wannabe ministers of old and new MPs and how large his Cabinet will be just to accommodate any number of pretenders. To heck with cost.

Yes, we know Joseph well, we know his capabilities and lack thereof, we know who pulls his strings and we can anticipate with a degree of accuracy, his paucity of diplomatic skills, and where his failings would be.

Unfortunately for those who vote for and against him, meaning the whole country, it will be too late to moan and complain after next election coming soon.

[Daphne – I thought as much. They tried it with Dee, too. Don’t worry, I changed his/her nick to Toe. They’ll like that.]

Thank God my better half is not that type. Could be because against all odds she was one of the few (very few) who managed a doctorate before 1987.

[Daphne – Obviously, because in your neck of the woods, women slather themselves in very thick make-up, dye and straighten their hair, wear clothes made for their daughters, are very poorly educated, and say nothing all the better to get money off their men, right up until the point where they metamorphose into something shaped approximately like a cardboard box (4′ x 4′ x 4′) with plum-coloured hair cut by a man’s barber, and don’t need to be nice to men for money any more because their men have long since had their soul sapped and have given up.]

[Daphne – To expect a man to change when he becomes prime minister is like expecting a man to change when he marries. Neither rite of passage has the power to change a person’s character.]

All politicians were once untried and untested, and all of them were elected to office for the first time once. It can’t be that we can only have PMs with PM experience, as we would soon run out of candidates.

[Daphne – They were not untried and untested as people, and nor is Joseph. The style and characteristics of every prime minister’s style have been identical to the style and characteristics exhibited in his life before and since, and even in his private and working life. The prime minister is the man and the man is the prime minister. That’s why I was right about Alfred Sant, when everyone was saying how great a new possibility he was in 1996. I was actually one of the few who knew what I was talking about, because I knew him in a private capacity. Joseph Muscat is more widely know now, and with the new media, more widely observed. His personality traits and character flaws, his weaknesses and his shallowness, are markedly evident. Unless, of course, you are blind or not a woman.]