I do regret that, it seems, that the Labour Party has reverted to the practice of the MLP of appointing the party representative in a foreign country as the nation’s ambassador. This can only lead to division among the Maltese community. In one case it also damaged bilateral relations when our ambassador could not hide his support for the local Labour party that had lost the election.

Charles Stafrace, the new Ambassador to Athens, is a retired civil servant, who was appointed up to DG at OPM during the previous administration. He served as advisor to Mario Cutajar, the new Principal Permanent Secretary up to a few weeks ago.

F*cking posers, the whole lot of them. They perpetuate social class hatred amongst the masses and yet they jump on the bandwagon at the first bloody opportunity.

Can anyone see the irony? Are any journalists around? What does the censorious video-blogger at Malta Today think?

This is one of the most random appointments ever to take place in Malta’s diplomatic history.

“,,,,,,,,,,,,,, to beguile the time.
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t” – Lady Macbeth

Forgive me for asking, but why exactly did your birthday party in 1996 end up on the newspaper? That sounds so strange!

[Daphne – Not really. What IS strange is how the Labour Party has managed to sustain its level of obsession with me for two full decades and counting. You’d think they’d have lost interest in a lone newspaper columnist by now, but no. They have taken bunny-boiling and pathological fixation to a fine art. I have newspaper cuttings from 1991 in which they say the exact same things about me that they are saying now, with the key difference that back then their idea of an insult was calling me ‘skeletru’ and ‘xkupa’ and ‘gozz ghadam’ and now, two decades down the line, they call me fat instead. They are so pathetic and pre-Enlightenment that it is beyond belief. I must say that all this has taught me what hell women with my personality must have gone through 200 years ago in Maltese villages, if Maltese villagers behave like this today. No wonder they ended up tortured, jailed and burned at the stake for consorting with the devil.]

Cannot expect better from amateurs, can you?

This means that they have not yet sent their approval/acceptance to have him in Brussels representing Malta. The delay is significant. Their refusal will be even more so.