But this isn’t a good enough excuse. Fight if you know you are good enough to win. If you’re good, battles can be won almost automatically.

Therefore next time Astrid, fight battles you really believe in, battles you know you are going to win, to save precious time but to bring back successful results..

Kieku jien nghidilhom jirrangawli ghal xi flat Town Square. Wertit wara l-placards, protesti u hin mitluf hux?

I’m getting a little bit fed up of this but, re point vi) below, have you gone mad or something ? How on earth did you infer all that man / woman misogynist / misandrist crap from my claim that, out of all the individuals you have targeted – man, woman or beast – in all the years you’ve blogged, the one who was the butt end of the highest number pf posts was,probably, Consuelo H, with Astrid a close second ? Get a grip on yourself, will you.

[Daphne – Hello, Mr Tyrrell. You always lose control and give yourself away in the end. All it takes is my pushing a few of your buttons. Have a nice Christmas, and stay away from the Berkshire sheep.]

Well, here’s illogical for you. Most of my family on my mother’s side vote Labour. They’ve been Labour all their lives and most of their children (my cousins) vote Labour too.

However, they all hate Lorry Sant. He’s an ahdar and vendikattiv because he had made my grandfather redundant after he had a spat with him.

My grandfather found it hard to find another job with the government because of Sant and eventually had to look to the private sector for work.

So they all vote Labour but hate Lorry Sant. Oh, and Joseph Muscat isn’t in their good books either because a cousin who was a Labour councillor was hounded and made to resign to make way for nies tal-qalba. But they still vote Labour.

‘Wheels within wheels’ and ‘angus black’, you are so naive. I ask again, how does she choose which developments to object to (apart of course from those which directly effect home in Sliema)?

iii) you have still not come up with a single article that supports your assertions and, worse, you leave wide open the debate as to whether it would have been better to criticise PN environmental POLICY and, in so doing, undermine further their re-electability (sorry) if, indeed, that was even possible or choose to say nothing in the knowledge that the administration that was sure to follow would behave even worse.

This point is so flawed that I can’t even decide where to begin explaining. In a few words what totally seems to fly above your head (I add intentionally) is that Vella unashamedly and unequivocally joined the MLP bandwagon to attack the environmental policies of the PN government. This amplfied the effect false criticism amongst the masses who think it is cool-to-be-environmentalist -this group now includes Sandro Chetcuti.

Jozef, Baxxter – chapeau!

It’s not FAA, or they would chain themselves to the railings at Castile until the interconnector cable is plugged into the Maltese grid. Maybe if they’d done that, the Nationalist government would have listened. This one won’t. They’ve binned the whole thing.

Energy efficiency and MEPA indeed. I’m talking about energy generation. Power stations. I’m talking about the switch from oil to nuclear. Oh yes, that is exactly what the interconnector would have meant. It would have propelled us into the 21st century.

The PN Government was voted out of office over a year after the money was pledged – you knew that and are dissembling as you had made a fuss at the time. Wasn’t 24 months enough to write a cheque, considering that so many cheques were written on the eve of the election?

I don’t know what Astrid’s attitude to the sponsorship was. For me it’s enough that she continued to speak out against government abuse even after the funding was pledged, unlike some other NGOs who fell silent once the money started rolling in.

[Daphne – Oh dear, oh dear. You had all the facts you needed here – a simple search using the box top right would have helped you out. Twenty-four months, you say, but it was in fact between three and six months before the dissolution of parliament: http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Papers-Laid-PQ-777.pdf The pledge was made in the third quarter of 2012, which means July, August or September 2012 and parliament was dissolved the following January.

So it was THIS government which failed to pay her.]

And a rubbish website it was too. Let’s call a spade a spade.