I really enjoy reading Eddy Privitera’s letters. They make my day.

His latest about Simon Busuttil’s “divisive” speech was really the peak in fun. Busuttil’s suggestion of having Independence Day as the national holiday can be debated – I cannot see any divisiveness in it.

What really is divisive is the premeditated effort by the present government to belittle the Nationalist Party by excluding Eddie Fenech Adami and Lawrence Gonzi from the VVIP enclosure at the Barrakka Gardens party, as well as failing to include the Independence Monument at the Mall, in Floriana, in Prince William’s visit.

To increase the magnitude of Labour’s hypocrisy, they said it was Buckingham Palace that had established the number of persons to be included in the enclosure, for security reasons. I am more than sure that Buckingham Palace was not concerned with the list of the persons to be invited but by the number. In the meantime I might have missed any statement on the subject by the British High Commission here.

Arrangements for the presence of a person from the Royal Family are made months ahead of the occasion and I am sure that the programme was thought of quite early in the year.

So to end on a note to Privitera: don’t make me laugh.

 

 

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