Jeffrey’s ’emotional’ problems need to be addressed

On timesofmalta.com, this morning:

PN General Secretary Paul Borg Olivier has dissociated himself from a link to a blog by Daphne Caruana Galizia which featured on his Facebook wall, according to Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. The blog is highly critical of Dr Pullicino Orlando.

When contacted, Dr Pullicino Orlando said he had spoken to Dr Borg Olivier soon after the link appeared, and the PN secretary had said he dissociated himself with the contents of the blog. That being the case, Dr Pullicino Orlando said that while this matter was troubling, he did not wish to comment further.

So let’s just get this straight. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando never misses an opportunity to cause damage to the party in government of which he forms part.

He appears routinely on Super One TV shows and takes on the role of a Labour MP even though he sits on the other side of the house. Because he is there, and nominally a member of parliament for the Nationalist Party, only one other representative of the PN is on the taking-heads panel, and that representative is effectively isolated and left alone to face a barrage of attacks from Labour politicians, Labour sympathisers and Jeffrey.

Jeffrey openly lies about people when they are not there to reply, as he did last Monday night on Joe Grima’s show, when he said, quite brazenly and repeated it twice, that I ‘attack children’ (for God’s sake), that I had “attacked Joseph Muscat’s children” and that I had “attacked the five-year-old child, who has a speech defect, of an official.”

Really, Jeffrey? Quote chapter and verse. Say who this official and five-year-old daughter with a speech defect are, because I haven’t a clue what you’re talking about. I just know that you’re a bloody liar, something I discovered a little too late.

Jeffrey said I can sue him for libel IF it’s not true. But I’m damned if I’m going to waste any more time in court on his account. I’ve been saying for months that the man is quite clearly suffering from extensive and deep-rooted ’emotional’ problems and he cannot responsibly hold his seat in parliament.

His regular benders or ‘episodes’ manifest themselves in full public view and with traceable regularity on his Facebook wall. I can understand that the Nationalist Party has no way of dealing with him just as it has no way of dealing with Franco Debono, and accordingly behaves as though there is a wild animal loose in the house, but surely those closest to this man should take him in hand.

If his ‘partner’ Carmen is thrilled with the proceedings because every bit of damage he does increases the chances of her Labour Party coming to power, and with that her chances of an Important Position as she sits among the Labour delegates and applauds Muscat’s speeches, then she is short-sighted indeed.

Unless she plans to ditch him once she has got what she wanted, or a better offer from somebody more stable and powerful, there is not much to be said for encouraging the man in your life to crash and burn before a national audience.