Madonna, Daphne, x’pacenjza trid ikollok ma’ dan-nies.

L-islogan tal-Labour missu kien: MALTA, pajjiz ta’ l-imgienen u tal-Labour jattiraw il-paranoia.

Nies bhal Roberto ivuvtaw Labour ghax kellhom paranoia kbira ghan-Nazzjonalisti.

No time to read all your lanzit, Roberto. Time’s precious so to cut it short and to not make a whole hullaballoo about it, do yourself a favour and Bugger Off and Get Lost and don’t visit this page if you’re uncomfortable with it.

With people like you around, writing what you wrote, basing assumptions on ideologies and lunatic fantasies, it’s no wonder Malta is a CRAZY country.

Are you Konrad Mizzi himself, by chance?

Yeah, why did that beautiful young woman get together with that older, unattractive millionaire?

Like Anna Nicole Smith, when she married that multibillionare aged about 90. The world is full of these mysteries hux?

[Daphne – There is another way of looking at it, Roberto. Why would a sane or intelligent man pay so much for sex? It’s not only the women you should be dissing.]

Not really sure what you mean by hdura u lanzit tas-Sliema to be honest.

I would have thought that it’s obvious that the hdura u lanzit on display here is on the part of your friend Grosvenor.

But let’s put it this way – if anyone has any evidence at all of any financial irregularities concerning Konrad Mizzi, let’s hear it.

Otherwise it’s just bullshit gossiping about how could someone have afforded to do something they didn’t do and never even said that they were going to do.

That may be a legitimate discussion for you but it is then you go down in my estimation. Sure, I know you will say so what you have lost a fan, you still have a lot left but you need to be careful because your judgement of the public mood is important in your situation.

[Daphne – Roberto, you force me to say it: my judgement of the public mood is near-perfect, and bar just a couple of lapses in 23 years, always has been. It’s a sort of instinctive understanding. Without it, I would not have been able to do this job.

You also make the mistake of thinking that I don’t have the exact measure of people like you. I do. I understand and guage you perfectly. Whether I relate to you is another matter. I don’t and never did. I am 48 and people like you (I use the ‘you’ in its plural form and a general sense, and not in a personal way) are not new to Maltese society. They are certainly not new to Sliema. My experience is that their reason is generally the result of a very average IQ and lack of a proper education in the true sense of the word. There is no other explanation, and the reasoning is invariably illogical.]

Right now you are not gauging it at all. People are not saying ‘Oh God, what have we done? Gonzi, please come back! ‘ Among the people I know that wanted a change the verdict is still out.

[Daphne – ‘Among the people I know that wanted a change’ – Roberto, I have been around long enough, and have sufficient insight into situations, to know that you are one of them. Your presence in this debate is in the nature of those girls who go to a doctor and say, ‘I have a friend who needs an abortion…’. Yes, of course the jury – not the verdict – is still out. But it’s not because those of you who voted Labour when you habitually vote PN are looking for evidence that this government is not fit for purpose. It’s because you are looking hard to persuade yourselves that you were not wrong, while the suspicion lurks, among the more intelligent of your number, that you were.]

What I can never accept, as a proud Maltese person, is people like Grovesnor who probably want our ministers to be exposed as corrupt, who probably even want the economy to fail, just so his side can get back in power.

People voted against that mentality. That is the real lanzit u hdura.

[Daphne – Nobody wants that, Roberto. You are very much mistaken. People who vote PN by definition have a completely different mentality to people who vote Labour. I noticed in this last election that the ‘chaff-sorting’ process was even more thorough this time. The switchers – those who voted Labour when they usually vote PN – were people who had always struck me as being not particularly bright and always jealous or upset or bitter for one reason or another. I can’t speak for others but I shall most definitely speak for myself: the last thing I want is for the economy to fail and to have our ministers exposed as corrupt. I suspect from your tone and manner of writing that you are 10 to 15 years my junior – is this right? – and so you will not understand my fear of a repeat performance of the economic catastrophe and corruption of the 1980s. Nobody who lived through that would want to experience it again, still less HOPE for it to happen.

I assure you that I do understand where you’re coming from, and many like you. You want to be able to take Labour politicians at face value, to take them at their word, and to treat them as the equivalent of Nationalist politicians. However, they are not. You cannot take anyone at face value or at his word, not politicians, not anyone. You must always assess the character, personality and nature of the person, because that is the main thing, the most important, almost the only thing that counts. Everything about Joseph Muscat screams out ‘untrustworthy’, from his body language, to his manner of speaking, to his actions past and present. It is a classic ‘Would you buy a used car from this man?’ scenario, and it is really unbelievable just how many people are unable to register, not even at the instinctive level, human behavioural signals.]

Grosvenor, I grew up a ten-minute walk away from Tigne so I am actually aware of the specialist knowledge of being aware where it is.

As for equating knowledge of MPs receiving 500 euros with demanding to know exactly where someone would have got the money to buy an apartment that it is being gossiped they were discussing buying well, I think even you can not be that obtuse Grosvenor. Or can you?

Here’s a theory for you (based always on the unconfirmed, dubious gossip that Konrad Mizzi was seriously considering buying a Tigne Point apartment, but I will play along): maybe he didn’t buy an apartment there because he couldn’t afford to.

Tell me now Grosvenor, how does that make you feel? Happy to know that he is not that well off?

Disappointed because you can’t call him hypocrite? Admit it Grosvenor, you don’t even know any more. Your type just start from a position of hatred and take it from there. Is he poor? Then he is a hamallu, uneducated, a thug from the marmalja.

Is he rich? Then he is a hypocrite, a phoney, possibly (probably) a crook. Joseph Muscat sure ain’t perfect but he was smart enough to see that there enough people turned off by people like you in the Nationalist movement to get people to switch.

It is people like you who led us to the most humiliating defeat of all time. Keep up the hate spreading and get ready for a few decades more of Labour.

[Daphne – Interesting that you should say you grew up a 10-minute walk away from Tigne Point because I would have guessed that from the rest of your typical lanzit-u-hdura-tas-Sliema comment. And I speak as a native. Humiliating defeat, my eye – the only people feeling humilated right now are those who have woken up to their own gullibility in voting for this crock of shit, even if they won’t admit it. Grosvenor’s questions are legitimate. Your anger is misplaced.]

Of course it’s our business, you dumb idiot.

He’s getting paid from our taxes. What business of theirs was it to make a whole hulaballoo when the previous administration were given 500 euros increase per week?

And you question what business of ours is it to question how he bought this Tigne Sea front flat!

Do you know where Tigne Seafront is, in the first place? It’s that type of area which requires one to be rich to own a place or just forget it.

Not enough reason to believe he bought this apartment through his “hard” work.

What hard work and what career anyway? This “funny” minister has done nothing much so far.

Besides this, people who’ve worked hard, lived to work, doing 18 hours of real work every day, have still not managed to buy an apartment in Avril Court on the Tigne seafront – surprisingly just after their 107 days of getting elected, the guy goes on an apartment shopping spree.

Get real.

Methinks he’s still within range of the blast-zone. Rather difficult to get out of it, really, without leaving Malta altogether.

The Chinese connection had to start from somewhere.