In an article (April 21) on the current administration’s reintroduction of hunting on Sundays during the spring season, George Pullicino states: “The changes in the hunting regulations have followed the usual pattern that we are by now accustomed to: political decisions seemingly taken out of the blue, with no consultation whatsoever.”

Just to refresh Pullicino’s memory, the decisions on hunting taken by the PN were indeed based on the best consultations.

Starting with the signed Fenech Adami guarantees to hunters that changes would only be done for the better and culminating with the information disseminated by the Malta-EU Information Centre, MIC, based on the consultancy of the PN-appointed advisor Saviour Balzan, the PN has a lot to be proud of in this respect.

Pullicino might also be reminded of the proposed lottery by which hunters could win their chance to hunt in spring and other idiocies the PN concocted in negotiations with the European Commission on the spring hunting framework legislation and inform us who was consulted on these decisions.

Yet he considers all these blunders as the “the most reasonable and fair option possible” and warns that hunting on Sundays, which he considers as provocation, will surely “have a consequence in the ballot box when the time comes to vote”.

Indeed, with a 35,000 vote defeat, who better can tell about the consequences of consultation? It seems some people never learn.