At a professional level, it’s best for me if Delia is elected. But because I have a conscience, I would rather he isn’t.

Delia, Musumeci, the bankrupt Frank Portelli and their Facebook rabble are spreading the word that it is essential for Delia to become Nationalist Party leader to finish me off. You know things are really bad when Portelli, having given up on his own chances, begins rooting for Delia.

These are people who don’t play chess. I don’t play chess, either, being bored from childhood by all games involving boards or cards, and considering them to be a waste of valuable time. But I do think like a chess-player, which comes from being trained from early life to being alert to the consequences of actions, and at both a micro and macro level that is no different to the way chess-players work out the consequences of their moves on the board.

So now I find myself being forced to explain to Delia, Musumeci, Frank Portelli and the rest of the rabble – and to some of the twits who are my contemporaries but whose brains never evolved beyond the age of 15 – why Adrian Delia’s election as Nationalist Party leader will not weaken my readership, audience or perceived influence, still less “finish me off”.

On the contrary, it will strengthen me at a professional level, and will be the best thing that could possibly happen for this website. This will be immediately obvious to any strategic thinker, but it is not obvious to that fascist rabble.

Over the past 25 years, since the Labour Party acquired its broadcast media and developed a full-blown media strategy, it has used consistent brainwashing methods on the public to link me to the Nationalist Party, convince people in general that I work for the Nationalist Party, and even that I am paid by the Nationalist Party. This is completely false, and highly slanderous.

The reason the Labour Party does this is because it found itself confronted by a newspaper columnist, and later her website, who from the outset acquired a very broad readership base of tens of thousands of people of all ages and from across the social spectrum. This was dangerous. The Labour Party couldn’t attack my views in themselves, because they were and still are authentic and clearly the views of somebody who is far from stupid and actually quite insightful and well-informed.

So the only road open to them was to attack my independence of thought. To do this, they had to repeat through all their media and across Facebook, over several years, the brainwashing message that I work for the Nationalist Party. This was successful to some extent. But it was not successful enough. My readership is still extremely high, and maintaining high readership over 30 years is no mean feat, I can assure you.

If the Nationalist Party is led by Adrian Delia starting from this month, what is the Labour Party going to say then? It can no longer say that I work for the Nationalist Party. I never did, but lots of people did not believe this. Now, with Delia painting himself into a corner on the matter (he’s not a chess-player, as I said) by ranting and raving savagely against me, I will be freed of all that.

Not only will I be ripping into a Nationalist Party whose policies and methods I don’t agree with – how could I, if they are formed by the money-launderer for a prostitution racket, and a man so shady that few of his professional peers have anything positive to say about him? – but the Labour Party and the government will also be instantly stripped of its main platform of attack. They will no longer be able to target me as “the PN blogger” or the “Nationalist Party columnist” or suggest that I work for the Nationalists.

My credibility will soar and so will my readership. But as I said, I am a chess-player and they are not. However, I am not only a chess-player, but I also have a conscience and think about the bigger picture. I care about my country. And because of that, I would rather take a professional knock in having somebody other than Adrian Delia elected party leader (Frank Portelli stands no chance), which would allow the Labour Party to carry on bleating and brainwashing against me as a “PN blogger”, this time joined by an unforgiving Delia and his rabble, than gain maximum professional advantage by having Delia at the helm of the Nationalist Party, freeing me from all slander that I write what I do because they pay me or persuade me.

I trust that Delia, the Labour stooge, understands this not-very-complicated explanation of chess moves on a tangled board.