SACK THEM NOW – it’s as though they are deliberately sabotaging the No campaign from within

The SHout campaign spent money doing the easy bit: printing flyers to promote a fund-and-awareness-raising event “for all the family” at the St Andrew’s Parade Ground (aka Luxol) tomorrow.

Then they spent money on another easy bit: paying a distribution agency to stuff the flyers into letterboxes all over Malta.

And then 90 minutes ago, their campaign leader Saviour Balzan TWEETS to say that he’s called off the event BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER.

Weather? Weather?Are snow and hail forecast?

The real reason, years of experience tells me, is that they did sweet FA to actually pull the thing together after printing and distributing those flyers. If they really had gone to all the trouble of organising the event – a mammoth task which requires super-efficient organisational skills and a crack admin team – they wouldn’t have called it off so readily on such a paltry excuse (after a sunny afternoon) literally the night before.

And of course, Saviour Balzan uses his No campaign call-it-off tweet to promote his newspaper. This useless toe-rag is the best No campaign leader the hunters could have hoped to have.

I’m beginning to think they’re deliberately sabotaging it from within: Balzan because he wants to keep cosy with Muscat, and Birdlife because if spring hunting is banned, their funding takes a nose dive.

I am probably wrong, but that’s what it’s beginning to look like.

We are alone, dear readers. There is no No campaign. We all have to get out there and do our bit. Let’s go down fighting.

And as a postscript, will somebody write Balzan a memo explaining that no man in his 50s uses ‘cos’ for ‘because’, still less a man in his 50s who owns a newspaper published in English.

If he is in too much of a hurry to type out the full word, then the correct abbreviation for men his age is ‘bec’.