Good point.

I will try to give you at least one reason. When Mintoff defeated Sant in Parliament, and Sant after that lost the election, all the followers of “the traitor” did not vote Labour.

Muscat saw that it was imperative (if he is to win 2013 election) for the lost sheep to come back to the fold. Hence the call to the “skippable” lot to return.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2049270/Gwyneth-Paltrow-like-Apple-1-10-parents-suffer-baby-remorse.html

He certainly was the best ever non-finance minister.

Only as far as his personal finances were concerned.

What does Joey know, or care, about Maltese, or PL history for that matter ?

He couldn’t berth his yacth at Ghadira but could release the merchandise.

It was not tuna but canned mackerel, reduced by one mill not five.

As a young politician himself wouldn’t he want to bring forward new and young politicians with him?

As in, bring new people to the front rather than bring back the oldies?

I wondered whether Dr Muscat is actually thinking tactically or whether he is suffering from a touch of nostalgia, harking back to the good old days, like those living in a republic who want to bring back a monarch.

That is why, I think, he wants to bring back those guys that he loved and worshiped so much as a child and have them in government again under his leadership as some sort of saviour and to attempt to bring back those good old days.

I can’t for the life of me think of any other reason.

If that is the case then someone needs to remind him that this is a country we’re talking about and not some old black and white photograph.