Point 2: the Labour Party says that Simon Busuttil should have brought “proof” on Xarabank

The Labour Party likes to spin the tale that I work for the Nationalist Party or am somehow part of it. This despite all the manifest evidence to the contrary.

It’s a spin they began for the express purpose of undermining my credibility – not because it’s a bad thing to be associated with a political party, but because they wish to suggest that my arguments are not those of an independent-minded and intelligent woman who has reached the conclusion, of her own accord, that the Labour Party is rubbish and that you shouldn’t vote for it, but somebody who is paid to hold opinions which a political party feeds her.

That’s by way of preamble to an important point that has to be made after last night’s show, when the Prime Minister challenged the Opposition leader on live television that he hadn’t “brought proof” of Mrs Muscat’s ownership of Egrant Inc and related matters.

The story, however, is mine and not the Nationalist Party’s. The Labour leader cannot challenge the PN leader to “give me proof” when it is not the PN media which broke the story, but this website. The PN media are simply reporting what they read here, and then taking the story further, like other news organisations, with on-camera door-stepping that has resulted in some very interesting footage, including that of the Pilatus bank chairman leaving the bank late at night with bags of documents and his risk manager.

The Labour Party is now tweeting the spin that “#Simonfalz has no proof”. But it’s not his party media’s story, it’s mine. They should be challenging me for “proof”, because the Nationalist Party media haven’t got it. I do.

Joseph Muscat and Konrad Mizzi in Montenegro – another one, like Azerbaijan, of the world’s most corrupt countries.