I cannot agree more. I absolutely cannot agree more. What a hypocrite Ms. Vella is.

Her Majesty is worried, she said. There are no recreational spaces for residents in Mistra, she said. The environment is under attack, she said. I’m sorry, dear lady, but you should have seen it coming. It is useless now to cry over this bucket of milk. It’s spilt and turned acidly sour and we still have to lap it up, all thanks to you.

The cheek of some people. I would run and hide if I were her. She did her damned best to bring Gonzi and Gonzipn down and she had Joseph Muscat and his Merry Men shoved down our throats. But now she wants us to go and protest with her.

No, dear Astrid. I will not be attending. Mine is a protest absence against you. This government does not care one wit whether you protest or otherwise. They have to rub backs and hand out iced permits and they certainly will not bow down to your bickering and whimpering. We are lumped with a government who could not care less about the environment because YOU (and others) have made damned sure that the only man who had the balls to do something about the environment – and who was also kicked out of office precisely because he tried to rein in the abusers and the cowboys – would be consigned to political history.

Astrid, if there is one protest you need to attend is the protest against your selfish, myopic and self-serving self. THAT is one protest I would gladly participate in. And when our coastlines will start being eaten up by land reclamation, when our only real environmental gem will be destroyed you only have yourself to thanks- and we will have you to blame.

Grow up, and for God’s sake, if you have the gall to go on national television, inform yourself well first and practice what you have to say because you suck at speaking in public.

[Daphne – Yes, I agree that all this is most trying. Mrs Vella gave an interview to The Malta Independent, published last Sunday, in which she was asked about her political allegiances and how she voted. She avoided the answer by saying that her father suffered under Labour in the 1970s so it should be clear to us what her political feelings are. No, it is not clear at all. I will never understand why certain people find it necessary to conceal the way they vote or to begin shouting about privacy. What is the problem with saying specifically how you vote? It’s normal for people to do so – in a true democracy. I certainly have no problem doing so, because I like to practise democratic normality. What I do know is that I remember seeing news footage of Mrs Vella enthusiastically kissing (on the cheek) the Leader of the Opposition, Muscat, outside parliament after he voted the way she wanted him to do. That indicates a rather disquieting familiarity and personal liking. I don’t run around kissing people even when they do things of which I approve, still less when they are politicians.]

“Prioritajiet Iffukjati” is more like it !

Or rather, “caefully timed” in an attempt to distract the Nation from the on-going investigation about his “secretive” lightning visits to Bahamas when he was supposed to be attending a EU meeting.

I’ve been watching the Volvo advert in a loop, hence the quip.

Baxxter, but how do such quips come to you? You nearly suffocated me. Unless you have already been given a Pulitzer, make your name known and sooner rather than later, you will be eligible for one.