So bloody what?

Just look at his record of doing business, like begging for alms from dictators of the Communist variety, from unsuccessfully tackling Malta’s unemployment problems, like letting the infrastructure crumble, like leaving the island without water (remember ‘take baths together’ or ‘go for a swim’?), like not planning for increased electric generation, like waiting two years or more for a ‘party line’?

All seem to be the works of a 33 year old hot dog who did a lot of barking and let his naive henchmen do all the biting for him. Some of the henchmen are still on Joseph’s team.

Well, age certainly seems to be important to Joseph Muscat, whose party was hell-bent on depicting Gonzi as old and decrepit during the last general election. They have got to realise that age has absolutely nothing to do with it, and that it’s the experience and the competence that count. In my eyes, Muscat has neither.

In my eyes too, 39 is not young; in those of the “new” electorate he is even less so.

I have no personal grudges against Joseph Muscat. However, as somebody else said here, I feel he is out of his depth.

As Daphne says, he has no breeding to speak of and he is totally unpolished, to start with.

I think he looks like a peasant in a suit.

And, what’s more, he gives me the impression that he actually knows that “postu mhux hemm”. His body language is not natural and his posture is all skewed.

I might be wrong, but when he attends high-profile meetings he comes across (to me at least) as horribly inexperienced and a fish out of water. He is not a natural.

Unlike Gonzi and George Abela who ooze confidence and experience, he always looks like he has been delegated to represent the boss, except that he is the boss.

Somehow Muscat feels he is inferior but he convinces himself he deserves to be there, because at the same time he was raised to think he is a star – I can see that.

I am not saying this to denigrate him but rather because that is how I perceive him.

Somehow I feel Muscat believes politics is a game in which he is somehow scoring.

We will still have him as a PM in 18 months’ time but that is certainly not through his own doing but through the PN’s – and also a stroke of luck of his being made leader of a party which has been stuck in opposition for 20-odd years.

Dom beats Joey hands down.

Party leader at 33. PM at 39.

Yes, the youngest PM in the British Commonwealth of Nations.

So bloody what ?

He will appoint AST, George and Karmenu Vella(s), Fredu Sant and, if Mintoff is still crawling, as special consutants so that if anything goes wrong, he can always blame someone else.