But KMB made amends immediately – he actually wore a black tie during the subsequent cabinet meeting in honour of the deceased and he offered his resignation to the other incredulous cabinet ministers but he was easily persuaded by them to stay and press on, regardless.

This man should be hiding in some remote cave rather than continuing to make a fool of himself.

The improperly wired electoral connection could explain why KMB’s hair seems to stand on end. Even if an earth leakage circuit breaker (salva vita) was installed it would still have required an “earth”.connection.

It is indeed a frightening thought – but the most frightening aspect of this whole very sorry affair is that we can never ever take anything for granted.

But the reality of it all is that if we had to think about how precarious our present well-being and serenity and peace of mind are, we would instantly lose our well-being and serenity and peace of mind with the result that, since most people do not realise how chimerical our present well-being is and how volatile our peace of mind is, since we’re at the mercy of so many cranks, the sheer reality of it all is that we might very easily, so very easily, lose our peace of mind and our serenity.

We’ve had more than our fair share of nuts in parliament.

And famously, some century or so ago, the Nationalists of old elected village idiots and disreputables to parliament with the express purpose of bringing the institution into disrepute.

Oh, forgot to briefly summarize, as simply as possible, for these people:

When half the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half get the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of a nation.

Some ‘inconvenient truisms’ for these people:

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

What one person receives without working, another must work for without receiving.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not take from somebody else.

You cannot multiply wealth by deviding it.

Alas, I fear that, even if translated into Maltese, these people will never ‘gettit’.

a) to annul the decision of the law court that the PN be allowed to hold a public meeting in Zejtun by providing the SMU to use tear gas in alliance with an MLP mob,

b) to accept glibly a handful of perjured affidavits that Dardu Debono had “escaped from custody” when in truth he had been murdered inside the police headquarters and when it was a prevalent sick joke that Nardu’s ghost was appearing in that CID room,

c) that he praised the wreckers of the Curia as “the aristocracy of the workers movement”,

would readily believe that he prefers that the neutrality cause be retained as it is so that bloody dictators of the ilk of Ghaddafi would be able to slaughter his people without interference from Malta.