this sounds more like it… Gahan are you misinformed or trying to mislead?

Truly Baxxter, I go to relax in a handkerchief-sized piece of land trying to cultivate five zucchini plants which originally were a dozen but were eaten by the snails.

First a certain Birdlife guy with the name of Nimrod asks me whether I know anything about any trappers in the area (as if I’m going to tell him anything about my neighbours), then a Cabs German guy is seen using his binoculars focused on my zucchini plants dusted with sulphur, then I see Nimrod running, then I don’t see the German guy and start worrying about his fate, then ALE patrol come into my field to turn their Landrover to continue their chase after some trapper with a big bag in his hands.

Can I be left in peace to enjoy my land while the nightingales sing (there are quite a lot in my area)?

Being against hunting, on a minuscule, overcrowded island, is the same as being pro-land, because it’s all about Malta’s exceptional circumstances. This place is too small to cater for everyone’s hobbies.

That’s why I’m against shooting and bird-trapping (hunting, in English, means chasing a quarry using hounds), fireworks, additional gold courses, crazy schemes for airports in Gozo, village feasts which block off entire streets, permits for any more quarries, building permits, motor racing tracks or any other misuse of very, very limited land for pleasure or “delizzju”.

Bollocks to your delizzju. You were born in Malta. You chose to stay. You have to adapt and give up your hobby.

Agriculture is commendable if it is sustainable.

Incidentally, the charges being levelled against Chris Packham, viz. that hunting and shooting goes on in the UK so why shouldn’t we do likewise, are complete rubbish for this very reason. The UK is 771 times the size of Malta.

So others have made the same connection?

Jonathan Shaw, I believe, is all out against hunting.

Is there some candidate who is pro-agriculture instead of against hunting or against nature lovers?

Land needs to be cultivated and young people should work the land instead of chasing hunters, shooting down birds organising barbecues or tracking.

Et tu, Baxxter?

“Down to earth” – there’s no such entry in the dictionary of the language-from the-land-of-thick-pompous-people.