Hope this helps your awful writing next time!

I’m he.

Quite a few oldies but also 8 members who have never sat in parliament before. It’s a glass half full/half empty sort of thing, and as you yourself say, I highlighted each of the long-standing PL members in there. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

[Daphne – I think all this pivots on your erroneous use of the descriptor ‘fresh-faced’, Bertrand. ‘Fresh-faced’ does not mean new faces. It means young faces. The new faces you listed are anything but young. Nor, for that matter, are they new. This is the first time Louis Grech has a seat in our parliament, but that doesn’t make him new. He’s been active in the Labour Party since the 1960s and was handpicked by Mintoff for a job at Air Malta in the early 1970s.]

And Mr/Ms P Shaw would do well to get their facts straight before carelessly besmirching people’s reputations. I have never had anything to do with L-Orizzont.

For full disclosure, back when I was 19 or so I wrote a monthly piece for Maltastar about foreign affairs (as did other colleagues at the University paper at the time). I didn’t get paid for it, I was just excited about getting my name into print.

It was quite difficult, but I remember squeezing rabidly pro-Labour statements into pieces about George Bush, famine in Malawi and papal statements about Islam, among others.

And perhaps I should make it clear, for the P Shaws of the world, that that last paragraph was sarcastic.

[Daphne – Well, Bertrand, the problem there is that the medium is the message. The fact that you wrote for Maltastar, even if free of charge, will just keep coming up in your CV, tainting everything that comes afterward, however unfairly, at least for the next few years. But then it will become irrelevant eventually.]

I now realize to whom Delboy,of ‘Only Fools and Horses’ fame refers when he says “WHAT A PLONKER!”.

If only you had the IQ required to know what I am talking about.

What helps me get along in these desperate times is the fact that at your age someone like you wished you had the satisfaction of having the government of your liking much earlier.

I would have thought that spending almost a quarter of a century in limbo and spewing venom on a daily basis would have softened you, but somehow I was mistaken.

However with you now, it’s like having the most beautiful woman in the world and realizing that you just replaced her with an old hag.

However at my age I hope I will be able to see a new NP government in office in the future.

In footballing terms, it was high time that the NP gave a lower division team a walkover. At least it will give people like you something to smile about before your your candle blows out. Enough said.

And when his wife tries to kiss him, he pulls away – on LIVE TV.

Haw Edd,

Mela ghadek tibbloggja? Mur ifrah ftit, kellkom rebha bhal dik, x’qed taghmel id-dar quddiem il-kompjuter?

Ara vera Daph tat cans lil kulhadd!

What are you doing here then, Privitera?

It is very simple, if you do not like it, do not read – the fact that you and your ilk, do not only read the articles on Daphne’s blog but comment as well goes to show that you actually cannot stay away.

That makes you an adoring commentator too, Eddy.

What we know for sure is that YOU DID NOT MANAGE TO FOOL ANYBODY, except your usual adoring commentators here !

She does not look very comfortable behind them with one K holding his hand and the other K hugging him whilst giving her his millionaire backside.