When you have people like Joe Woods, who is hardly a household name and is very reserved, coming to this forum for the only time since it was set up eight years ago, to defend the Singapore in the Med model, because he probably felt it was under attack by some comments here, you know it’s impossible to change the paradigm. It has everyone’s support. Dead, alive, big, small, rich and not so rich.

Even the radical left-wing nuts like Graffiti stay away from the subject. Granted, they probably couldn’t articulate their opposition, but I’ve never heard a word of criticism from them. It’s all about NATO vessels and McDonald’s.

You have all sensible, moderate, intelligent people supporting the current paradigm.

So how exactly do you go about challenging it?

Worse still, they lack the imagination and information to help them understand that their world view is restricted to the more primitive parts of European society and is almost extinct outside Malta and Greece.

The only reason I have been at the top of this game since I was 25 (that’s a quarter of a century now, a total record by any account for a columnist) is because I have credibility, David.

Credibility comes from the sound of an authentic voice, besides other things. When I write, people can hear me speak. They know it’s what I think and not what I think they expect me to think.

It also helps that I know my craft (writing for immediate consumption) and that I have an instinct for what people want to know and read, for a story that will fly.

But largely, I am the creation of the Labour Party. Without your keeping me in the spotlight with your persecution, targeting and criticism over a full 25 long years, I would never have become this famous.

Even people who have never picked up a newspaper and can’t read English know about me. So thanks. I mean it. I owe you lots.

In fact, every time the Labour Party targets me even now – or its fellow travelers slate me on Facebook, like Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando – there is a perceptible surge in traffic on this website and I gain many new readers among people who would never have come here until prompted to do so by Pullicino Orlando or the Labour Party, and who then become hooked and stay. It’s fascinating.

I don’t have to investigate anything about David Gonzi. I tried explaining something to you very carefully before: I grew up in a totally different context to any other Maltese journalist I know. David Gonzi is married to Melanie Miceli whose father, Norman Miceli (Demajo) is a director of the M. Demajo Group. How do I know this? Largely because Joe Demajo, who was chairman of the M. Demajo Group until his death a couple of years ago, was my uncle when I was a child, and his eldest son is both Norman Miceli’s first cousin and mine. Melanie Miceli is well provided for – not all women are s*rmom barra, to use an expression you would understand, and out to marry for money.

You never had any credibility. More so now that you haven’t even tried to investigate where this 34 year old son of a PM with 65K a year lives, what car he drives etc.

I rest my case.

It is amazing how many Labour supporters wearing blinkers are achieving what Ian Borg couldn’t achieve in parliament few days ago, without them really understanding the full context of the issue.

I see you still don’t get it.

I didn’t criticise the Labour Party treasurer for being associated with his clients in and of themselves.

I criticised him (and his party) for creating a stink about corruption when the party treasurer himself KNEW THE FACTS about the people involved because they are his clients.

Those facts were not ‘Ndrangheta money-laundering by shady Italians; they were facts that would have been clear to a lawyer who had performed even the most basic know-your-client search.

John Dalli and his two brothers are immediately recognisable as the precise opposite of that (and I never knew their parents).