[Daphne – Jacky, this is not about two ordinary people living together and holding different political opinions. This is about two halves of a couple, one half with a political career in Party X, the other half heavily invested in Party Y. Party X and Party Y are rivals and each seeks to oust the other. So by definition, these two halves of a couple are working directly against each other’s interests – unless, of course, they’re not. Your parents did not work for political parties or represent them. It is normal for husbands and wives (or boyfriends and girlfriends) to go home to each other at the end of the working day and go over their worries and concerns, trusting the discretion of the other. But these two are holding essential, confidential information about rival parties and either exchanging it at the end of their day, which is bad for the parties they work for, or withholding it from each other, which is bad for them.

I’m glad to hear that you remember the pros and cons of EU membership. That must mean that you have a normal memory, though of course if you were of normal intelligence you would not actually need to remember them but would know them or be able to work them out from our present experience. I am sad for you that your parents didn’t tell you how they voted. I always wonder at such great secrecy in Maltese households. I can’t ever envisage not saying how I vote – I’m perfectly happy to tell the world – let alone hiding it from my own family. Why on earth would anyone want to do that? Were they ashamed of what they’d done, or something? Scared you’d tell on them?]

Not really, she was busy marketing apartments next to his nightclub.

His wife made very it clear she had had problems with Sant’s leadership. It was Joseph who leaked what Sant was about to unleash on Jeffrey.

Remember when Joseph specifically thanked Marlene upon being elected?

‘Alla hares ma nibdewx nithaltu minhabba l-politika’

Jeffrey’s wife (have they divorced yet?) is a Labour MP. She said categorically that she had nothing to do with that saga. Can his girlfriend say the same?