You can take the man out of Malta but you can’t take Malta out of the man.

Is that better? Can we stop with all this lokalità pride?

Actually he may have meant just that for I am told that one of Dalli John’s favorite Maltese expressions was.

‘Dawn xi ridu, li ninzalhom il-qalziet’?

I have no problem at all saying so, either, but this is not about me. Of course they are the pits, as are the Cuschieri brothers.

I’ve yet to come across a village or town without a slum area and I don’t think we should imbue the definition of slum with much more beyond it’s dictionary meaning. The only thing they shared with the slum is being poor (unlike now!).

Other than that, as I said before, I only blame their upbringing because the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

When Dr. Busuttil criticises the Joseph Muscat government about J Dalli BA – the disgraced EU Commissioner – rather than the government replying to the criticism, we get a rabid attack on Dr. Busuttil by J Dalli BA.

I am morally convinced that this is evidence of collusion between the Joseph Muscat government and J Dalli BA.

But now the Commissioner Who Never Resigned And Who Was Never Sacked is sounding desperate. Where is all the charm, calm and composure of the EU Commissioner in charge of Health and Consumer Affairs gone?

Seems like he needs another trip to Lourdes, maybe those miraculous waters will calm him down and purify his soul from his sins to eternity.

As you already know, he was not brought up in a slum (more likely in a slum mentality). I can think of a couple of (former) neighbours of his who are very different to Mr. Dalli and his brothers.

I’ve no doubt all this was known to the people who allowed him to run on the PN ticket for several general elections over some two decades and finally appointing him EU Commissioner in 2010.

But I guess blaming it on the slum is much easier.

[Daphne – I grew up in Sliema, Ms Gauci, and I have no problem at all saying that Joseph and Manuel Cuschieri grew up in a Sliema slum because they most certainly did. Hal Qormi has its slum areas even today, let alone when Dalli was growing up. Your definition of slum might be different to mine. But at least we share the opinjion that the Dalli brothers are the pits.]