Eddy... Eddy

Eddy Privitera, who has been a Labour apologist for as long as I can remember, loves to spread the word and give us all the benefit of his wisdom.

One of his latest gems, echoing faithfully the message coming out from MLP-HQ, is that I am one of the main soloists in the PN's orchestra. Along with Daphne Caruana Galizia, Privitera says, I bow and scrape to the tunes called by some conductor in PN-HQ.

The man is sadly deluded. For starters, apart from dropping by to Net TV to be interviewed about the events of October 5th 1977, when university students were beaten up by the cops of Mintoff's regime, I haven't been to PN-HQ for years. And nor have I met up with any PN spinners or policy-makers, for that matter.

The thing is, and this is what people like Privitera just can't live with, people like me and Daphne don't need anyone to tell us how to think. In the past, a past Privitera clearly hankers after with a passion, if you dared to express an independent thought, you were looked upon as a dangerous hooligan. Anyone with even a byte of memory will remember how the regime equated itself with the nation: anyone who opposed was branded a traitor, a running-dog lackey of the reactionaries, part of the orchestrated chorus of disapproval for the regime.

Sorry, friend - we think this way because we think this way, not because anyone makes us think this way.

That BirdLife campaign

Did you see my handsome face on that BirdLife campaign? Yes, ok, I know, we differ on the adjectives but I can dream, can't I? I had a quick look at the FKNK web-ite, where a forum runs for conservationist hunters and trappers - a phrase I can hardly write without cracking up - and their reaction to the campaign was revealing. These guys seem to think they're really macho. If I needed any reason to carry on opposing illegal hunting, this is it.

Doing the election math

Are you doing the math, as the Yanks love to put? If, like me, you don't want to see Dr Sant as Prime Minister, do some sums, why don't you? I like Harry Vassallo, I've known him for years and he's as honest as the day is long and a nice guy, to boot, but voting for his party is, the way the electoral cookie crumbles, a vote for the MLP. If you want to vote for the MLP, fine, go ahead and do it, but if you don't want the MLP to be in Government, you have to consider voting PN, because if the PN don't get a majority as compared to the MLP, the latter will run the show, however many votes the AD get. This is because you can't use your votes to make a coalition, only your seats and it's way too late by then.

On the other hand, if you want to vote for Norman Lowell, Josie Muscat, Emy Bezzina and their motley assortment of candidates, hell, go ahead and do it. There's nothing I can write that can change your sort of mentality. Why are you even reading this?