Look at the 5th and 6th comment on the Facebook link.

https://www.facebook.com/followsimonbusuttil/posts/651233058236503

[Daphne – If you mean ‘Frederick Buhagiar’, that is quite obviously a fake profile. Look at the profile picture and the 54 ‘friends’.]

For them it was a ‘zieda ta’ hames mitt euro fil- gimgha’ and that was it.

They had no idea that it was in Lawrence Gonzi’s first term in office that MPs in Government employ were allowed to hold on to their government pay in addition to the ‘ hames mitt euro fil-gimgha’ they received as MPs.

Nor did they know that the issue wasn’t as underhand as it was made out to be.

Any MP or journalist worth his/her salt knew that the honoraria had been declared by the respective ministers and parliamentary secretaries in their Income Tax Return for 2008, and who conveniently left it under wraps for a couple of years.

The Labour media were also allowed to reduce important government initiatives that had merit but had also attracted a fair amount of criticism, to buzz words which stuck.

So the whole public transport reformation became ‘ bendy buses’. The Piano project became ‘ the roofless theatre’ and the power station became ‘heavy fuel oil’ or ‘ yellow pages’.

Maybe, as you say, Toni (a lawyer himself) is aware that with Dr Busuttil “it’s the frost beneath the smile that you have to look at, and not the smile on the surface.”

In 1980, Ronald Reagan’s Republican campaigners used a poster showing the picture of Jimmy Cater and Leonid Brezhnev kissing each other after the signing of the SALT II treaty on nuclear disarmament. Only that the Republicans added the words “You, too, can kiss off Carter” on their poster.

I trust that Dr. Busuttil and his team are old enough to remember this.

Unlike the “switchers” they were never seduced by the propaganda lie of a “new” reformed Labour promising a Malta Taghna Lkoll but actually delivering a “Malta ghall-Laburisti Biss”.

Courteous diplomacy is one thing. Actually sipping a poisoned chalice is something else altogether.

This is what happened in the past and there is the probability that it will happen in the future. A few words which should be read by the PN leadership.

It saved me sending a reply to a respectable gentleman, whose comments I often look out for but not always agree with.

I believe he went overboard in a previous post and probably the words he wrote about Busuttil are a reflection of his own sentiments rather than the Labour ones.

I hope he allows the PN leader a little more room to prove himself and doesn’t take everything at face value.

Brass neck doesn’t even start to describe them. After a decade of relentless, unscrupulous crap being pumped out of their miserable Super One, now they want to tone down the political media.

Let’s see what Busuttil does. If Net don’t grow a pair soon I’m afraid we’re in for a rough couple of administrations.

Others see no difference between Mintoff and Muscat.

Still (I hope many others) see Muscat worse than Mintoff.

I am with the last group, largely because Muscat is unable to rein in his own people or tell them what to do and have them do it.

The result is already confusion.

This will be his downfall, and the sooner the better for all.