YES I remember. That was when my brother Dr. Frank Portelli wrote in The Times to say that the Judge Prof Cremona should refrain from judging the case of the Blue Sisters, when he had already suggested another line of attack to the prosecutor. For this Frank was held under arrest for 48 hours in a cell. 99 lawyers had signed a protest. Oh yes I remember how afraid we were for him, but nobody seems to have remembered this. I cannot understand the hatred that is coming from the mouths of some persons.

[Daphne – Why are we expected to be shocked about that when Frank himself finds the Labour Party so engaging nowadays, Mrs Dimech? If he doesn’t bother, I certainly shan’t.]

Try to understand – if there was no judgment there’s no court case one can quote, a precedent.

So if a court states that in the case of Italy’s push back of migrants to Libya the migrants’ rights were not respected, it goes without saying that in the same scenario Malta would have breached ON PURPOSE the migrant’s rights.

Italy tested its case in court and lost, any country in the EU which tries to breach a migrant’s right will be rebuked and sanctioned by the European Court.

Basically Joseph cannot do what Mintoff did when the latter sent two anti Gaddafi hijackers of a Libyan Arab Airlines plane which landed in Malta, back to Libya.

Mintoff guaranteed that they won’t be prosecuted by the Gaddafi regime, and the gullible hijackers believed him. At least that’s what we were told by Xandir Malta then.

I suspect they preferred a twenty-year stay at Corradino rather than being sent back to Libya.

Probably some idiotic tautology about how these “people are also humans”. Do we ALWAYS have to put cretins in top positions in Malta?

I wonder what Dr George Abela’s opinion is on this one.

Because Labour isn’t about Malta. It’s an agglomeration of those who, in this microcosm of a place, manage to feel outdone.

Labour is about another Malta, one that doesn’t belong to ‘anyone’. Whatever that means, if it can ever mean.

Muscat just followed this constant when he formed the movement. He simply reworded that which blocks people from their potential calling it GonziPN.

Labour potentially exists when not in power, kontra, but it becomes a paradox when faced with the idea of nation.

Being part of something, read borghese, causes guttural panic and the vocation to ‘break free’ is then mistaken for a geographic predicament. Force will replace authority, the urgency imposed by physical constriction justifying it.

Small Island states or with a degree of autonomy where politics take on the local, always suffer this distortion of the left.

Material need as an ideological raison d’etre and limited landmass soon come to a head.

The EU, funnily enough, was primarily a potential competitor to Labour’s role as opposition to the PN in government.

Malta taghna lkoll, opposizjoni u gvern, partiti u movimenti. They’re basically scared and Muscat knows it too well.

The PN’s mistake was to emphasize the problems out there.

Wait for September, Delimara tender and international regulations.

Dear Daphne,

While I appreciate that people can evolve and change their mind, it is leaving me puzzled to find Dr Mario De Marco’s name in the list of lawyers when his government till last year did not have any problems considering push-backs.

It is correct that back in 2002, there was no ECHR judjement, but internatial laws and the rights for asylum already existed, no one bothered to file a case with ECHR, not like yesterday when the NGOs actually called up ECHR.

[Daphne – Don’t draw conclusions from the absence of certain names. Many lawyers simply couldn’t be reached in time. But others, yes, refused.]

It is too late for LP. Their foundations and basic principles are rotten to the core. What is there to build on, when the bottom comes crashing out on every occasion?

Even a stink will out.

The threat of the John Dalli story was worth this cock-up, and its full consequences, for Joseph Muscat?