Okay, thanks for clearing that up for me.

So instead of humiliating Debono Grech, he humiliated Mangion.

Good heavens, fifty years and he still wanted another chance.

[Daphne – Debono Grech is 76. Had he been elected, he would have been in parliament until the age of 81.]

That big-mouth Toni Abela went on TVHemm and told everyone how he found him crying alone in his car after the results came out. He didn’t mention him by name, but everyone could tell who he was talking about after mentioning ‘kemm kienet ħasra li wara tletin sena fil-politika u ħadem tant, ma telgħax miskin.’

With friends like these to humiliate on national television while you are down, who needs enemies?

And he used to say that the Nationalists are his enemies, jaħasra.

[Daphne – If he said ’30 years’ then he wasn’t talking about Joe Debono Grech but about Charlie Mangion. Debono Grech has been in parliament for about 50 years.]

I presume the first question that the protocol people asked on meeting him at the door was “Where’s your mummy?”

When asked that, naughty boys usually burst into tears.

As they say in Italy: “I grandi si fanno aspettare”. Is this the case here?

His worst trait was his infatuation with some very incompetent people of very dubious integrity. He propelled them to the top, regardless of anything else.

And they proceeded to build their own personal fiefdoms at his expense. Some of them were even rabid Labourites.

It is said that a great leader is one who can recognise talent. I say that an even greater leader is one who can recognise incompetence.

Silvio struggled through on the 3 millionth count, but got no reward for his third term. Just imagine Franco Debono eh?

Lawrence Gonzi’s worst trait was that he was diplomatic with the people he had to be hard with.

You can get noticed continuously if you arrive always late.

Being a nonentity, this is one way of becoming an entity of sorts. It’s like the way many short men buy big cars and use seat pillows so that they can see bove the steering wheel and hopefully be seen.