Muscat's mole got it wrong

The leader of the opposition was out and about today, speaking at yet another party clubhouse. “Only another four years to go, Michelle. Keep those hamburgers coming.”

Many Labour voters don’t believe that the party is committed to EU membership, Muscat said. If even his own people don’t believe him, that should give him a pretty good idea of why the rest of us think he’s as shallow as a rainwater puddle and that his various stances are just so much opportunistic posturing. He hasn’t even convinced his own gang.

He warned the gathered throng of oldies not to ignore the upcoming European Parliament elections. Like hell they will, but let’s just say the man was being disingenuous – you know, alerting them to the fact that if they stay away The Others will get the three seats that legitimately belong to Labour. Oh, but I forget. Jason Micallef’s polls are legendarily way off the mark. He might have told his boss that Labour turn-out will be low and that the Nationalist Party will carry the day, when the opposite is true at present.

“We are starting from a position of defeat,” Muscat said this morning. “We lost the last general election….and many Labour supporters are disillusioned and believe that their vote will not make a difference.” He’s got a short memory. Labour lost the general election before that, and the referendum too, and still scored three EP seats – one of them going to a Super One journalist who hosted a TV show called Made in Brussel, telling us all about the grave dangers of EU membership.

Not having enough commonsense to bury his stupidity in going to the police commissioner to report Dolores Cristina and Tonio Fenech for their alleged remarks about the St John’s Cathedral project – for those were the two ministers in question – he continued to bang on about it this morning.

It becomes immediately obvious, now that you know the two names, why Muscat is refusing to divulge them to the media. The immediate reaction is what writers of text messages would put down as LOL – not lots of love, but laugh out loud. Tonio Fenech and Dolores Cristina as disloyal renegades? Oh, please.

Tonio Fenech’s remark was that you obviously have to know how to play the game to get EU funds (that’s why there are whole firms of consultants dedicated to advising people on these matters). Dolores Cristina’s remark was that if things carry on this way, people are soon going to begin saying that the only reason St John’s got the funding was because public officials were put under pressure. A third party heard these remarks, went rushing to report them to Muscat out of context and contextual meaning, and Muscat thought he had a scoop for the police. What a jackass.

He’s kept right at it even though there has been a formal denial. Unfortunately, the formal denial was not effective because it failed to specify the minister’s names or their supposed remarks. This has allowed Muscat to carry right on inventing rubbish and painting scenarios of corruption and whistleblowing, following in the conscience-free footsteps of Alfred Sant.

Muscat described Fenech and Cristina – without mentioning their names, because it doesn’t suit his purpose to have journalists calling them up for their version of events – as “courageous” and told his audience of losers that he hoped the two ministers would “show even more courage than they had shown already” by telling the police commissioner “who knows how to play the game and who pressured public officials”. I feel sorry for Police Commissioner Rizzo, the ‘paraventu’, having to deal with all these mad mullahs from Labour. First Sant, then Farrugia, now Muscat.

Your mole got it wrong, Joseph. Sack him.