When challenged with the information that the Labour Party would have to pay individual fees for each of the 14,000 people who signed up for its get-your-VAT-back publicity stunt, Jason Micallef - a man who contrary to popular perception never smiles in real life but always looks troubled and preoccupied - replied tetchily that the party has an excellent legal team and a plan.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the cunning plan might actually be this - a test case. After all, the knight in a black toga is none other than one of the Labour Party’s two deputy leaders.
He’ll probably jump out of the nearest bush now to inform me, by means of some vulgar article in L-orizzont, that this is a private case pertaining to his private practice.
But then I must ask: why didn’t he advise his client to wait for Labour’s cunning plan?
(she also used an article from The Times )
When I saw what she had written so I decided to write back as a comment and here is what i wrote: (unedited with Daphne's Comments)
It is funny how you always manage in your own way to ridicule your opposition.
[Daphne - It's not my opposition. It's Malta's: Malta's government and Malta's opposition.]
By the way what else can a lot of readers expect! The truth? Never! Why do we have to deal with the truth when we can ridicule others so the readers of this blog can maybe forget the truth about the electricity & water bills.
[Daphne - God, you are so boring. There is a place for earnestness, and I can tell you straight that it's not this blog. I cracked jokes right through the last tense week of the election campaign and I see no reason to stop. Heaven knows we need a laugh, even if it is at some pompous fool's expense.]
While people like you are writing these blogs, others are getting the sack! Also do not try to blame the economic situation because factories have been shutting down long before this! By now you want to say what the hell does this have to do with what you wrote???
[Daphne - I live in the real world, even if you don't. Businesses close, others open - it's a constant state of flux. Long gone are the years when people had a job for life and grew old with their colleagues and their boss. It doesn't work like that anymore. This is the first really big international recession that younger people are experiencing. It is not, however, the first really bad economic time that Maltese adults of 40+ are going through. When I left school in 1982, you just couldn't get a job, and if you did, it was on the minimum wage with no prospects. I'm kind of inured to the bad times: I am a child and young adult of Labour's disastrous economic policies. No matter how bad it is today, I can look back and think: baby, if you survived that, you'll survive anything.]
Easy answer lots. While people are trying to get back what the GonziPN government stole from them you are using Toni Abela as an excuse to ridicule all those who went to give their particulars to the Labour Party. Do not forget, Daphne, that there are thousands of people that you are ridiculing not just the Labour Party.
[Daphne - And your point is what, exactly? That 14,000 of them are going to beat a path to my door with pickaxes? I suppose your argument is that if lots of people think that way then they must be right. My own view is that they're following in the grand old Maltese tradition of cheapskate behaviour. Why file your own suit if there's a chance you can get some free action from Labour? And boy, you have to be one hell of a cheapskate to spend a day queuing in the street with thousands of others instead of getting your own lawyer.]
Accusing and ridiculing the Labour Party is one thing. Ridiculing the people is another. [Daphne - 'The people'.....il-Bambin jaghtini pacenzja.]
Even though people like you who are rich enough not to care for paying extra taxes for no reason don’t care for everyday workers that try to look after every euro they spend so they will not be without money by the end of the month. Of course for you these people do not exist!!!
[Daphne - Oh how wrong you are, sweetheart. (1) I am nowhere near rich. (2) I have direct experience of raising three small children on an extremely tight budget, and you probably don't. (3) I worked when my children were small not for the sheer hell of it, but to actually put food on the table - some of those griping workers' wives you mention should try it some time. (4) Unlike you, I understand that jobs are created by the sort of people you despise, and not by governments. Governments have a job-enabling function, but ultimately, those jobs are created by entrepreneurs, investors and The Rich who get up your nose.]
as a reply to that I tried to show her that I was joking too the same way she does !(she did not show that on her blog and used an excuse that :
[Daphne - I deleted part of your comment because it didn't make sense.]
She and her usual helpers dished me out to look bad (Usual PN tactic that hasn't changed during the years) also I replied but as usual you can never win !
NEWS FLASH ::
Daphne as a reply to me has named all those people that queued to get their VAT on registration (which is illegal according to EU law : Poland is an example) as and In her writing :
[Daphne - And your point is what, exactly? That 14,000 of them are going to beat a path to my door with pickaxes? I suppose your argument is that if lots of people think that way then they must be right. My own view is that they're following in the grand old Maltese tradition of cheapskate behaviour. Why file your own suit if there's a chance you can get some free action from Labour? And boy, you have to be one hell of a cheapskate to spend a day queuing in the street with thousands of others instead of getting your own lawyer.]
Cheapskates! That's the new word from her vocabulary ! one word for Daphne must learn is : EDUCATION.
To offend people (and cheapskates were included for all PN or MLP) is an even more proof of how she and her party, whom she loves dearly, are in a world of their own! Now I ask all of you reading this blog: If you knew that you had your money robbed from the government but can't afford a law suit and someone PN or MLP will help you for free what will you do? My oppinion is that if you were maltese or not will accept that help! But not according to daphne !!
I could go on about this what I said and what she said but for that there is her blog to see it !
A surprise to me is that one of the two people that Daphne tried to redicule wrote back answering that what goes arround eventualy comes arround(She wrote more but as I said you can see it all on Daphne's Blog. She is Fleur Balzan , a person who in my oppinion is doing the right thing , took the government to court so she can get her VAT on registration back.
Don't you think that she got speared from Daphne, Hell No, instead Daphne continued :
[Daphne - On the contrary, Fleur, I will. I did not upload your earlier comment because you were so far off the mark that I didn't feel like entering into a lengthy explanation of my working life, nor do I believe I owe you one. I will just point out that your assuming my day job is that of housewife supported by a husband who pays all the bills is not just off the radar but in another solar system. I have realised over the years, though, that many women who have never married or had families entertain such fanciful notions that married women are all of a kind. We are no more all of a kind than single women are. It's a safe bet that I work much harder, and for longer hours, than you do - precisely because my financial responsibilities are much greater, not that it's any of your business. But then I don't expect insightful observations from somebody who thinks that Toni Abela is a good lawyer, that Gensna is good music, and that it's wise to ignore the political machinations of those who are not as naive as you are.]
So there you have it! She also rediculled Gensna a musical for crying out loud! but after all that was done by The Labour Party so heaven forbit that she'll like it! She forgot to say one thing, Nationalists also LIKED IT !!!!! for that you need to go to past news media and you will see a particular popular person who enjoyed it ! To Fleur Balzan I only have one thing to say Keep up the good work and continue fighting !
I have changed my font colour due to some complaints about the red colour!
