[Daphne – He comes from a Labour family. Correction: family of Mintoffjani. His mother taught me and all my sisters at St Dorothy’s. We had to call her ‘Madam Balzan’ and not ‘Mrs Balzan’. Il-vera hamalla, miskina.]

1. The main aim of the newspaper was to make sure that Lawrence Gonzi was portrayed as badly as possible. All this coming from the ‘lanzit’ from Dalli and Balzan. Presumably, Lawrence Gonzi will no longer be Prime Minister after the 9th March so there is no purpose any more.

2. John Dalli is no longer running for the PN leadership. He might try, but after the Snusgate, it is very improbable. Therefore the other purpose of the paper to portray Dalli in good light has gone off in smoke as well.

3. The paper was intended to criticize the government in everything. Given that JosephMuscat.com will be in government after the 9th March, they will no dare do it.

4. From the GWU point of view, not much change would need to be done to get it in line with the rest of its Labour-leaning media.

You don’t know how right you are, pablo – Adolf was democratically elected in 1932. The rest is, quite literally, history.

And they take themselves seriously when they phone up people for their surveys, tell them they’re phoning from MaltaToday, and they get 14- and 12-point advantages for Labour!

And they’re all happy in there rubbing their hands that come 10th March they’ll be able to say THEY brought down Gonzi.

I’m seriously surprised any people at all tell MaltaToday they’re going to vote Nationalist.

[Daphne – In fact, when they’ve called me, I’ve told them I’m going to vote Labour.]

Then it’s the PN’s fault. It should have managed its image better. It should have not given the impression it was preferring some and shunning others.

It’s MEA CULPA time.

Jidher hu, kemm qed jipprova jirranga! Bil-hmieg li qed igib ta’ kuljum fil-MT.

Perhaps Saviour could issue his accounts.

Barter agreements?

The answer to your question is simple:- NO, none at all!