It is hilarious how you cannot handle people having a different opinion to yours.

[Daphne – I do that all the time, Michael. It’s not different opinions I can’t stand, but stupidity. I am notorious for not suffering fools gladly. It would be a failing if I were a priest or a politician or trying to sell them a frock, but fortunately I’m not and so I can tell them what I think of them.]

The reply was to Antoine Vella. I assume you know this person well enough to know that they don’t have the brains to answer their own comments. I don’t smoke by the way.

[Daphne – No, but you live in London. And yet you’re going to vote Labour because of the journalist who helped make it possible for you to be there. Ho Ho Ho]

Well actually I have a very high IQ and from the looks of it much higher than yours as I don’t have to stoop to your low levels and insult my own people. I didn’t say the whole family switched along with me. We discussed it as a family unit and most of us reached the decision that we were sick of being treated like idiots by Gonzi PN. And when I said associated with you obviously I didn’t mean first hand but through our association with the party. I too pick my friends carefully and I don’t think a lift mechanics daughter would fit into our little circle somehow.

[Daphne – People with a very high IQ by definition do not cut off their nose to spite their face. We are seeing one such spectacular example all over the media right now. One of the signs of a high IQ is the ability to foresee consequences and map out action accordingly. If you discussed, as a family unit, the way you’re all going to vote, then yours must be one hell of a freakish family. Or you’re lying, which is the more obvious explanation. Let’s try to picture the scene. Supper’s over, family sits down for family conference. Father: “Are we sick of being treated like idiots by GonziPN?” Mother: “Whatever you say, Joe.” Son: “Mhux xorta.” Daughter: “Min hu Gonzi PN?”

I am not a lift mechanic’s daughter. I am the daughter of an employer of lift mechanics. There’s more you don’t know, but then, you wouldn’t.]

I can’t speak for others Antoine but for myself I am not desperate to shut her up. I have turned away from PN and a lot of that was to do with the things Daphne was writing in this blog and in her column. I have spoken to others who are doing the same and I know before the week is out I will talk to more. I say keep up the good work. The country needs change and she is helping bring that about.

[Daphne – The new elve spiel. I’m all over the internet and have been for some years, Joe Attard. I can sniff an emerging refrain before its propagators have begun to sniff it themselves. And another thing, you forget how long I’ve been around and writing about politics. This is my fifth general election in the saddle, so to speak: 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2008. And every time it’s the same thing: rubbish like yours, to which my response is that if you choose your government on the basis of what a journalist writes, then you need to have your head examined. However you vote, I shall still keep writing, but you will have Sant, or in this case Joseph, as prime minister. I did not stop writing or working between 1996 and 1998. When the Labour Party is in government, or there is a chance that it will be in government, my readership actually soars. Now smoke that.]

Yes you are right, I do vote Labour, now. I have voted PN all my life as did my father and my grandfather but no more.

And not just me but most of my family have also switched to Labour.

Do we think they are any more honest than PN? Who knows, time will tell, but all we know at the moment is that we are tired of being lied to by our Prime Minister and yes of being associated with people like you.

You say that you support the Prime Minister and the PN yet the trash that you write is turning people away from the party.

[Daphne – Oh what bollocks, honestly. If you switched to Labour it’s because you’re a pique-driven gidra, not because you have made a rational decision. As for the rest of the family switching with you, how fascinating: is it the sort of family which shares a brain and a will, like your brain and will, for example? Or are you all equally thick? Well, perhaps the last, given that IQ is genetic. But then I’ve found that so is hdura. Tired of being associated with people like me, indeed – you should be so lucky. I probably wouldn’t even scrape you off the sole of my shoe if I stepped on you in the street. I choose my friends and even my acquaintances very carefully. There is no way you could ever be associated with me. I don’t generally mix with twits.]

Labour will survive for five years.

The way the electoral districts are drawn up will guarantee the PL at least three seats more than the PN.

The 2008 election result, where Labour polled 1,500 fewer votes than the PN, is a case in point.

Hear hear. As the younger generation would put it: Nivvota Labour? Inzabbab.

How about mobile top up cards with their value corresponding to his marks?

In that case,I hope that Mr Prime Minister WILL MAKE THIS POINT LOUD AND CLEAR TO THE WHOLE NATION before the so confidence vote is taken.