NOT LOSING SLEEP

I know because I was told, because I don't read those rags, the fact that my services are sought and paid for by a number of clients in the public sector made the news on Sunday, simultaneously and, of course, entirely coincidentally, in Illum and It-Torca.

Why this should be news I will leave to your imagination. After all, I have only worked in my area of specialization for some thirty-odd years, an area where not that many have chosen to toil, so I suppose for the sort of mentality embraced by these two so-called newspapers, it is big news that I am trusted to deliver my services in the area, news which they feel should even have my picture alongside.

I am not losing sleep over it. I've had attempts at intimidation by people far more adept at this, too. Quite apart from anything else all relevant taxes have been paid, and this news item, if it can be called that, has cropped up from time to time over the years, generally when I've irritated someone by some wise-crack at his or her expense.

This time, I'm also told, it was Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando who asked the Parliamentary Question about me that allowed the latest information to come to light. You know the fellow I mean, the one whose behaviour during the run-up to the last election I defended and whose divorce campaign I supported (by then despite him rather than because of him, truth be told)

I suppose I irritated the Sublime Being and I'm now being called to task (he thinks, anyway) by having my personal information splashed all over the media. Well, all over that area of the media that gives aid and succour to petty little people like Pullicino Orlando, anyway, instead of ignoring his pathetic Facebook rants and his absurd posturing.

Labour aren't losing sleep either, which I suspect they should be, after that ever-so-slightly strange motion they proposed last week. From what I could see, one of their Junior Star Candidates, Owen Bonnici, was pretty flummoxed on Bondi+ when he was asked the simple question "what is the point of the motion?" and I somehow think he went a bit off-message when he mumbled about the motion not necessarily being debated before 9th May, when a money-bill comes up.

I wonder why he did this. Was he so abysmally prepared for the task or is it the case that Labour, somewhat tardily, had noticed that a (Labour-appointed) Speaker, way back, had ruled against this sort of motion being able to work, and now they're desperately trying to back-track?

Whatever the case, and however the thing pans out, we're still going to get the Lino Spiteris and the Helena Dallis of the world banging on and on about how the Government is split, how Parliament is being ignored and how the sky is falling.

Poor lambs, they're so desperate for an election, they can't stop themselves.