I’m slipping up.

Joseph Grech wouldn’t understand what you wrote here because he’s an elve. You will remain without an answer.

What a silly comment.

[Daphne – Well, yes – straight from Elve Central. They need to get somebody other than halfwitted 20-year-olds and housewives who left school at 15 to fight their online battles.]

You need your head examined.

And then, what happens when you just happen to fall out of favour because some other “businessman” offers more than you or has better connections.

Were you one of those businessmen who ‘enjoyed’ MLP the last time round?

Really, if you’re a young businessman, newly comfortable in this role – and have no memory or real knowledge of how these people operate, and have employees, have a thought as to not only your survival and well-being but also theirs, and that of their families.

Assess your responsibilities and total risk well. Not all that glitters is golden.

Better slightly less for yourself personally and a safer, more competitive Malta – for everyone – than a Malta gone to the dogs where the players continue to bluff and raise the stakes on a daily basis. I can only hope you’re not serious.

Did you ask him how? And what? And when? Or is this to be developed on a case-by-case basis?

Who do you expect to pick up the pieces when this promise bubble bursts?

Spell it out, please. What exactly would you have under Joseph that you can’t already have under the Nationalists?

Are you 100% certain that a certain degree of incompetence and shortsightedness on your own part isn’t to blame?

Have you by-chance become detached from your business since the first levels of success so that staff or sub-contracted expert assessments are relied upon without sufficient direction, vision and analysis from your end?

Have you kept up with advances in technology etc.? Aren’t the opportunities already there – for all – that you perhaps fail to identify or move with?

And you think that Joseph can help you there?

What is he going to do: give you a manual on how to play chess, reposition the pieces for you, rewrite the game, close off the competition to limited players for a subscription?

I’d be curious to know whether in your heart of hearts, the latter part of the question is what you, and the other businessmen you write about, are really after.

Yes, but Malta is made up of over 400,000 individuals, half of whom definitely don’t deserve Labour.

They’ve already driven us to hell and back once. And I’d drag myself to the voting booth like a slug if I woke up on the 9th without any legs to stand on.

Truer words have never been uttered.

The other day on TV it was a creature in the shape of a woman (not a shapely one at that, I must admit) who, among a cluster of admirers yelling ‘Joseph, Joseph’ was heard to pronounce ‘Kemm inti sabih, Joseph’. I would not call that a negative reaction at a visceral level. Anything but!

[Daphne – That kind of person found even KMB sexy: as long as it’s a Labour leader…Men just don’t get it. Ask your wives and girlfriends. We immediately pick up on two key facts: 1. that he’s shifty, with a hollow self and a liar, and 2. that he’s a narcissist and therefore any woman in his life will spend it chasing him for something that he just can’t give her.]

And since when do you consider yourself as being representative of the category?

And also, how is it clear that I’m invested in the Labour Party. Jien la pjaciri qatt ma tlabt, la ghandi bzonn u laqqas nilghaq! Unlike many other here quite evidently.

[Daphne – I see. Mela biex tkun Laburist trid tkun xi hadd li jiehu jew jitlob il-pjacieri. Il-vera jahasra int, mandango, ibda min-nick li ghazilt.]

He just had to snipe at the PM’s documents.

His argument that PN took too long, doesn’t justify reducing the interconnector, the PN’s power station, to a fraction of its operating capacity either.

Tonio forgot to include that loss of capital into Joseph’s figures.