Ah, true to a minor degree but it is always wise to know what your enemies are up to and to ignore them may be interpreted as giving them credence.

Even the Maltese saying “L-iskiet risposta” can be modified according to circumstance to read, “Is-skiet risposta – ghal min ma jafx ititha”.

Daphne certainly knows when and how to respond to Saviour and his ilk.

I know Saviour.

I know who I believe regarding this matter, as you probably do too, Daphne.

sandro grech
Today, 19:41
dear Mr Gatt I am not much of a politician but we all know that Dr Sant was the only man to give a facelift to Bugibba . Tourism industry in Bugibba you killed with lack of info structure .

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120515/local/gatt-explains-road-building-problems.419929

Let’s hope the government accepts ASAP. They would be royal idiots if they let this opportunity slip through their hands.

[Daphne – And they would be royal idiots, too, if they allowed themselves to be pushed about with such patronising arrogance like the administrators of a third-world island in the 1950s. Nobody does anything for free, and that includes the gentleman in question. Malta has been the victim of far too many manipulators already, precisely because of its strange inferiority complex and its tendency to grab at ‘free goods’. I’ll reserve judgement on the collection until somebody other the owner and curator has actually seen it. It may be wholly genuine, but then again it might just be a tax dodge.]

Thanks.

[Daphne – I always start off from the point that there is no such thing as a free lunch and that no one does anything for free. I am not privy to the requests for the deal and so cannot comment. Nor have I seen the collection and I am not one to take the owner’s word for it – for obvious reasons – or that of a curator of whom I have never heard even though I known most people in the field in Malta. I’m sorry I sound sceptical, but Malta has a long history of being taken in by Greeks bearing gifts.]

[Daphne – Of course I know who Mario Debono is. Not through politics, though. He’s a contemporary of one of my sisters and also, he imports pharmaceuticals. He is one of those individuals the Labour Party likes to hassle, for no particular reason other than that he makes his contempt for them very clear. Individuals always have power in the Nationalist Party, accordingly to the Labour Party, when the Labour Party doesn’t like them. I am a case in point.]