[Daphne – I trust you are not serious.]

I mean, if they ultimately wanted access to the wider and larger EU market, why ruin the possibilities of negotiating with a supposedly corrupt politician, or at best renegotiating a cheaper arrangement?

Have you ever heard of a wholly honest tobacco company? I haven’t!

And then Malta would have a Commissioner who was forced to resign by the Maltese parliament ! That would indeed be the biggest joke in the history of the EU, not that its history isn’t already full of shamefull episodes. But this would be the cherry on the cake !

[Daphne – You bloody idiot, Mr Privitera. Haven’t you just told me that I know nothing about the European Commission? The Maltese parliament has NO JURISDICTION over European Commissioners. The Maltese EU Commissioner does not represent Malta. He represents the European Commission.]

LA REDOUTE: Fejn se tinheba wara l-elezzjoni ?

It seems the tobacco lobby has succeeded in getting rid of an inconvenient commissioner. The directive seems to have now been suspended, not postponed !

B’dan l-ghagir tghidx kien ftahat u dan ghamlu ghax dak iz-zmien kellu bzonn xi haga u ma’ nqediex.

Dawn huma in-Nazzjonalisti li huma hbieb kbar ta’ John Dalli BA.

Iz-zejt dejjem telgha f’wicc l-ilma u sa l-elezzjoni nisimghu hafna aktar praspar minn dawk li dejjem taparsi imilitaw fil-Partit Nazzjonalista biex akwistaw dak li riedu.

Gonzi tajjar hafna minn dawn in-nies imma fadallu hafna hmieg u biex dan isehh ghandu bzonn l-ghajnuna ta’ nies b’kuragg u determinazzjoni.

Il-korruzzjoni organizzata mhix facli teqridha specjament meta jkun hemm irjus kbar imdeffsin.

U z-zejt se jkompli jitla ftit xhur ohra !

I did, and I’m hoping that everyone gets what he or she deserves when all the investigations are done.

I’m pretty sure there are many who are laughing now but won’t be laughing so much in the near future.

Right! That’s what the retards of this country can think of. Paying back Franco?!

If he’s such a nothing, why does he bother so much?