Did they include contracts/jobs awarded to publicity agencies – nd how?

[Daphne – I’m sorry, I don’t get your drift.]

Pufta? But this is the progressive party.

When Joe Grima sat on the backbench, did they have to remove the bit in between the seats, like they do on a plane?

Face down? There’s isn’t a trough big enough.

Some people of my acquaintance say you’re paid by Tom, Dick and Harry to write what you write.

[Daphne – That’s because many Maltese reason like prostitutes (because of the history of our society). They are unable to conceive of anything that is not done for money or for the thought of getting something in return. This is in fact why friendship and pastimes – except primitive involving men, gunpowder, guns and traps – are alien to Maltese culture, and why so many Maltese either have no friends at all or have people they call friends but who are really acquaintances they use for a variety of purposes, like having somebody to go out with. The only people who pay me to write are Standard Publications, publishers of The Malta Independent. The rest is done for fun, or more properly, pro bono as a sort of civic duty. These people of your acquaintance must be quite dull-witted if they imagine that anyone could fake this level of conviction.]

But I know it isn’t true for the simple reason that I myself, had I had the time and the talent, would write as you do because I too despise the Labour party – for no other reason than for what it had the gall and cheek to do between 1971 and 1987 and the legacy of hatred and ignorance which we are having to face every single day of our lives.

No, money cannot come into it. If people had any sense, they would realise that you do not run a blog for money – and I really know what you mean by the word “despise”.

Your couldn’t have chosen a better word to describe MY feelings towards Labour and no matter how much it will be chocolate-coated or dipped in syrup, I will never ever be able to stomach – certainly not as long as there are people like Jose’, Anglu Farrugia,AST and the other dinosaurs.

But even the word Laburista puts me off. It must really be genetic, at this point (inherited from two parents whose lives Labour very surely screwed irrevocably).

Now that was the right reply if ever there was one….

He also thinks that we forget he is the same person who punched a member of the Broadcasting Authority and called Dr Fenech Adami “Pufta” during a mass meeting.

[Daphne – Hate? I despise Labour.]

Don’t get me wrong, but I have always believed that a country elects the government it deserves. So if this country actually wants Labour to govern for the next five years, so be it.

It’s better to trust the political party that gave you:

Democratic rights
Freedom of speech
Pluralism in broadcasting
A New Power Station
A new road network
A new telephone system
The right to be in the 21st century with top notch computers
A new airport
A new hospital
New Gozo and Cirkewwa Terminals
A University with over 10,000 students
MCAST with 8,000 students
The right to Education at tertiary level
A new Oncology Hospital
A new secondary school built every year
Introduction of Local Councils
The Euro
Entry into the EU
Dismantling of the Dry Docks which was running the country Dry
A new project making Valletta the true City Built by Gentlemen for Gentlemen
A new Bus System
Trustworthy relationships with other countries
The country’s Independence
Freedom of choice
Real job opportunities for those that WANT to work

The list goes on……

Go on take the plunge………vote PL

Martin – if you want to know about troughs, ask the guy in the pic. He’s been face down and up to the ears in swill more than once I assure you.