They all have. There isn’t a single government minister, MP, or public official who has lost weight after taking up his post. Not a single one.

And they would have us believe that they want to fight obesity.

Liars.

Malta must be the only country on earth with no correlation between income and excess weight, because these people are all loaded. And yet they balloon. And so are the poor. And they balloon too.

‘If you have to ask, you’ll never understand’. Attributed to Louis Armstrong, when a woman in his audience asked him, ‘ Mr Armstrong, what is jazz?’

You’ll be telling us the one about women, legs and snails next.

Not even a battered, handmade 1950s one?

What you are implying is, a woman’s place is in the kitchen cooking for her man.

Even mother nature seem to be of the same belief, as a matter of fact it gave women smaller feet, and this, so that they can move closer to the kitchen cupboards.

But those days are gone and men are expected to do their part in the kitchen.

Could it be that the minister has gone back to glorious pasta, after years eating noodles?

[Daphne – Never in that context, never with a shoulder pad and never like anything that would be carried into the office by somebody in a fleece. And always good leather. And they must always go one of two routes: either really well made but not flashy or branded, or well-used and battered but in a good way. This is hard to explain so I don’t think I’ll bother. People should understand these things instinctively.]

It think it would be the other way round having seen the video clip. Oettinger’s English is abysmal.

[Daphne – The reasons are too complex to go into, and I’ll end up offending and upsetting a whole other raft of people.]