How right you are, Daphne, how right you are! I move to insert this paragraph in the preamble to our constitution.

So you are vain enough to believe that “Apparently, even you find this compulsive reading all the way in Australia”. Please check where your website hits have come from – as I’m sure that you can, and you will find that I find your blog FAR from compulsive reading. You will discover that I have not visited your blog for months and months until I was curious enough to see what venom you were prepared to spew prior and following the recent thumping that the party you have fought so hard to retain in power received at the polls.

[Daphne – No, I can’t check where hits are coming from unless there is a great big mass of them from a single country. It’s fine with me when you choose to read it or not. It’s your level of engagement that astonishes me. Why go out of your way to seek to engage/form an internet relationship with someone you profess to so dislike? There are a few online writers I dislike. I just never read them. I’m not into masochism or self-inflicted boredom and irritation.]

You also shamelessly admitted that “by virtue of birth, upbringing, education, personality, interests and IQ I am in the natural minority” – as if by being in that kind of minority makes you a superior human being!

[Daphne – I hate to upset you, Frank, but it’s not me who says that it does. It’s civilisation. That’s why, when totalitarian dictators wish to create a new order, they start by going after my kind of person. Your Mintoff was no exception, was he. It happened in Russia, it happened in China, it happened in Hungary, it happened in East Berlin, it happened everwhere behind the Iron Curtain. Prole rule became the substitute. Obviously in Australia things might be different because of its specific history, but old societies are all the same, and China was one of the oldest of all.]

Can you not understand that what you are portraying is precisely the type of arrogance that cost Gonzi and his party so dearly at the polls? That there has been good and valid reasons why “the very same minority was hated with a passion by the Labour Party since the 1950s” as you put it.

[Daphne – It doesn’t bother me, Frank. That’s not my arrogance. That’s the perception of arrogance by people with an inferiority complex. The reality is that I am not arrogant at all, but extremely down-to-earth and factual, which is actually the hallmark of the real ‘tal-pepe’ though you wouldn’t know it. I simply refuse to make any apologies for who and what I am, which is different. I am not about to crawl around town ‘being humble’ or fake and apologising for being alive and for not being a prole or somebody with the IQ of a hedgehog. Nor am I going to take on the trappings, manners and mores of the nouveaux-riches to keep them happy. If the proles and the threatened under-achievers have a problem with that, good luck to them. I survived Mintoffianism with my identity intact, and you can bet your last Australian cent that I can handle a bunch of nouveaux-riches whinging women my age who have never read a book in their lives except Fifty Shades of Grey and who have turned Facebook into the equivalent of the village pump their great-grandmothers stood around, a fact that they are desperate to conceal despite all their talk of being socially democratic. And if that sounds arrogant to you, tough. I’ve seen enough of my peers bullied into submission and being politically correct about people with whom they have absolutely nothing in common and never will. They’ve done Mintoff’s job for him – on themselves. They forget that when Mintoff married, he didn’t pick a girl from the gutter. Socialists never practise what they preach and half the population tries to buy a tal-pepe identity with money, forgetting that it takes not only a few generations but the will to be civilised, and that includes a proper education which is not the sort you get at university.]

Finally, if you have such a distaste for Malta, the Maltese people and their mentality – on whom you so clearly look down upon, please do them all a huge favor and just leave the island. Go to some place where your ‘SUPERIOR BEING’ is more appreciated but PLEASE, stay away from Australia.

[Daphne – Forget it, Frank. Malta taghna lkoll.]

So now you are telling me that 30 and more thousand Maltese former PN voters were immoral – even amoral, when they elected the PN by a narrow margin five years ago!

[Daphne – No, I did not say that. I said that the methods used by the Labour Party (still being used by the Labour Party) are just that. A great measure of deceit was used to reel people in, with always just the right buttons pushed with the skill of a consummate narcissist or sociopath (this is not necessarily a reference to Muscat himself).And yes, the Maltese electorate does contain a disproportionate number of certain types of people, but they made up the Labour core vote anyway. Why else would they have voted for Mintoff and KMB and even voted for Sant again in 2008?]

Either that OR they have become so since then! Admit the plain truth Daphne – Gonzi and his government – APART from some of their colleagues who had the balls to tell the truth, were all thieves, pimps and whores who did nothing else than look after their own interests and those of their closest colleagues. You must also accept another truth…as much as you may try to deny it. People like Lou Bondi and yourself – through your comments on air and written blogs, DO NOT have a fraction of the influence on the electorate that you would love to think you have. The voters in Malta – including thousands of former PN supporters have proved to be much more savvy and street wise than you and Bondi were prepared to give them credit for. Rest assured Daphne, the 2013 Maltese electorate is more – MUCH MORE, sophisticated than you and the PN were desperately hoping for. Can the PN get back into government in five years time? Doubtful given the size of the majority just won by PL. Maybe in 2013? Possibly but unlikely UNLESS the PN can get its act together OR if the PL simply implodes. Whichever way it goes Daphne, you have many years of wasted time ahead of you, trying to vainly fly the flag for a Nationalist Party which has completely lost its way…possibly even until you get to my age! Good luck.

[Daphne – I am not Lou Bondi’s keeper, Frank, but even I can see that he is not doing his job to influence people. He does it because he loves it and it shows. I am not here to influence people either. You seem unable to understand this simple fact. I am not a propagandist. I am a columnist and a blogger. I write my own opinion. I write for a newspaper because it is my (paid) job. I write this blog because I enjoy it and because I don’t enjoy, for example, playing bridge or golf. It is not through my own efforts that I have a huge and varied readership. I certainly don’t work at it. It just happened (a long time ago). It is obvious that I am not going to have any influence over anyone: by virtue of birth, upbringing, education, personality, interests and IQ I am in the natural minority, the very same minority hated with a passion by the Labour Party since the 1950s – but people who are in the same minority, who feel runover by chavs and half-crazed people talking about being positive, wherever they go, find some solace here and so be it. Apparently, even you find this compulsive reading all the way in Australia.]

Yes.

The Maltese people think the sun goes round the Earth, that maggots grow spontaneously out of rancid meat, and that the Earth is 4000 years old. Are they always right?

The Nationalist administration had a list of faults that would take a week to go through. And yet it was still the least worst option.

Its major fault was this blind faith in the fundamental goodness of people. Is-sewwa jirbah zgur and all that bollocks. Il-familji Maltin [u Ghawdxin] huma hawtiela u “prudenti” u jhaddmu sew il-beneficcji li naghtuhom. Baxxter bhac-cuc ihallas is-social security sabiex il-“poplu Malti u Ghawdxi” jgawdi mill-aqwa sptar fid-dinja, wara li jkun ha hsieb sahhtu, wara li jkun informa ruhu dwar l-ahjar trattament mediku, u b’responsabilità, kawtela, u kortezija li ma bhalha meta jsib queue, ghax jaf li l-waiting lists huma l-allokazzjoni gusta tar-rirorsi.

Iva. Mhux hekk nibqghu?

If this sounds like a fantasy world, it is. The Maltese are the most selfish, pig-ignorant, unsophisticated, incestuous, inbred, whoring and thieving people on Earth. Social democracy will never work on them. They need an iron-fisted government of sharp-brained men and women, not bleeding-heart philanthropists.

Left to their own devices, the Maltese would go back to living in caves, pimping off their mothers, wives and daughters, and having sex with their goats.

He’s in the right place.

Yes and no Daphne. You are right in saying that good governance SHOULD NOT be about party political strategies but let’s face it, that is the unpalatable reality whenever elections are held here in Australia, the US, UK, Italy or ANY other country you care to mention.

Remember the two elections won by George W Bush, the ones in which Obama prevailed, both Tony Blair and David Cameron in the UK – they were all about strategic campaigns. As for Malta being classed as a nation of thieves, pimps and whores – THAT my friend is precisely what the previous PN Government was accused of being by no less than some of its own members and guess what? They were all COMPLETELY vindicated by the electorate – including thousands of former PN voters!

[Daphne – That’s a fine way to turn an argument on its head, Frank. Thieves, pimps and whores vote in elections, you know, as do the rest of us. We’re not talking about strategic campaigns here, but about crossing the line between the moral and the immoral, or perhaps that should be amoral. There are other forms of crossing the line, too: promising what you can’t deliver at a micro-level.]

H.P. Baxxter Some strata of humanity has a tendency to enjoy being pulled by the nose. The Nationalist politicians forgot the great Roman tradition of keeping the crowds at bay with free bread and entertainment.

True. We have the example of Hungary, a mere four weeks ago.

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