We wouldn’t be discussing this topic if reasonableness prevailed at an earlier stage.

Practical reasonableness is a virtue Tonio Fenech lacks, otherwise how can we explain what he is doing here?

If he really cared for the country/government, he should have withdrawn his nomination, yesterday.

The PN needs Simon and I can’t get over the fact that Fenech cannot see the obvious.

I’m beginning to think he’s just another megalomaniac, who’s contributing to the woes of the PN.

PN strategists will of course ensure Simon is elected deputy leader, but till then we would have wasted more time, which they don’t have.

Tonio, a word of advice – there’s only one honourable thing to do here. Withdraw your nomination and let’s elect Simon by default…tomorrow. Good night, Daphne

Mr Rizzo, glad you did not deny any of the facts I mentioned.

Now I would like you to tell us why those days you bragged for months on end about about being the one who responsible for sourcing AMS to set up shop in Malta but then you somehow did a disappearing act after AMS were found out to have been probably the most notorious con artists to hit the Malta government and the banks.

And we are talking millions of euros here.

Your bragging automatically carried with it full accountability, especially as you were then MDC deputy chairman.

Your statements these days about you seemingly being the only one to have ‘a public conscience’ make you out to be a so-called whistleblower who’s holier than the pope.

I beg to differ.

I recall when I went for an interview with AMS in Hal Far. An enthusiastic ex-headmaster of a technical school was the HR Manager who interviewed me, poor man. If I had been accepted that job, I would have ended up unemployed.

Thanks for the info, Daphne. So now, Simon can have my full sympathy and as far as I’m concerned he is as good as Tonio Fenech to be the PN deputy leader.

From my side, I thank God that I didn’t repeat the false rumours which I heard; they’re like feathers in the wind…difficult to pick and place back in a sack.

As things stand, if Simon won’t win this one, he won’t be the PN leader.

Something about Simon which I got to know today and worth noting: he is one of the few people who attend mass daily in Brussels. Unlike me, he makes time for such things.

If he’s elected deputy leader there are two possible scenarios: the first and most likely would be that he will be co-opted as an MP and become Deputy PM and leader of the house.

The second scenario could be that Tonio Fenech would be Deputy Prime Minister and there would be a small cabinet reshuffle.

Gentleman pen-named ‘Oscar’,

Your ‘research’ is so clearly the product of crass incompetence that, even before I engage a lawyer, I hereby give notice of my intention to institute formal action to have your malicious allegations declared libellous.

Of course, it will be for you to prove the ‘facts’ you have so confidently ‘confirmed’; for the time being it should suffice that your audience should know that:

1. I was merely the London based representative of the MDC at the time of the AMS debacle and I was not part of any delegation to Hong Kong in connection with that fraudulent affair.

2. I, Philip Rizzo, had not ‘sourced’ AMS; I had merely obeyed MDC Malta Head Office’s instructions in the matter.

3. It is wholly misleading to allege that I ’emigrated’ after that saga [ which happened in 1988/89, if I recall correctly]. Indeed, I was ‘promoted’ by Government to head the mega-project of the ‘San Raffaele’ Hospital in 1992 and I only returned to reside in London in April 1995 when I was being followed by an off-duty soldier on a motor bike after I ‘whistleblowed’ on Ing. Emanuel Farrugia, the proposed hospital’s Project Manager [ who was related to my then Minister ] when I discovered he had a material shareholding in a company called PPB Malta Ltd which was formed to produce ‘predalles’ [the ‘avant-garde’concrete slabs that he, an electrical engineer as opposed to a structural engineer had actively recommended for use throughout the mega building.

An apology will be accepted if forthcoming within the next 3 days.

Philip Rizzo ID 678151 (M)

The British lived to regret it. He was returned to office in spite of his advanced age.

I heard many rumours and I won’t repeat them here, up to now I’m non the wiser.

[Daphne – OK, Gahan, because I know who you are and that your question is genuinely meant, here are the facts of the matter. Mrs Busuttil met another man, a Belgian, while living in Brussels with her husband, Simon Busuttil. She left her husband (of her own free will) and went to live with him. A story as old as time.]

I want the people who represent me to live, ass much as possible the ordinary normal life the majority of us are living.

There are people here who think that abortion is OK, I want to know whether my deputy Prime Minister will be an odd ball, a philanderer, gay , a gambler , alcoholic or a hunter.

We’re told here that politicians don’t have a private life, as soon as they are public persons they sell their private life.

Don’t we see presidents of civilised countries hugging their wives and children when they win an election. Some are also seen smooching their wives.

http://www.google.com.mt/imgres?q=smooching+presidents&hl=mt&sa=X&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=Wy4P6ALYMsFl3M:&imgrefurl=http://article.wn.com/view/2012/07/17/President_Obama_booed_after_initially_failing_to_deliver_Kis/&docid=MuqavyZ7StvF9M&imgurl=http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BAIJmcJhmrg/0.jpg&w=480&h=360&ei=JV6sUNCFDY3MsgaOqIDIDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=527&vpy=431&dur=415&hovh=139&hovw=178&tx=88&ty=129&sig=108942272748825904910&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=178&start=0&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:0,i:103&biw=1425&bih=709

People have the right to grill their politicians even about the stability of their relationships. How can someone lead a country while she or he has big personal problems back home?

Politicians are said to discuss the running of the country in their families. I think that’s good.

What top?

Actually, in this case, his personal life is a big plus point. Personal problems forge a man’s character.

One thing that strikes me about Busuttil is that he doesn’t sport that inane, idiotic grin typical of Maltese political men.

See this? See that look? I can tell a man by his body language and that’s Innere Führung. There’s a brain at work there.

http://photos.eppgroup.eu/thumbnails/–%20Year%202011/06-June/11-06-28%20XIV%20Summit/–%2011-06-28%20XIV%20Summit%2031_750_500.jpg

On the other hand, hardcore Nationalists don’t seem to go for that sort of thing, which is why they chose the current leader in the first place – not that there was much choice, mind.

Please learn the meaning of “populist”. I think you mean “popular”.