Ara, fl-ahhar qam mis-sodda Ev

So if you were waiting for the Labour Party’s internet news report last night on the parliamentary foreign affairs committee hearing earlier that evening, forget it – as we saw in another post here.

Labour runs its news website bhal tac-civil, with office hours. If something happens after 5pm, you’ll have to wait until the next day to read it, because its website is a sort of hybrid between a static online version of the print edition (and they haven’t got a print edition) and a live site. But it’s only live between roughly 9am and 5pm.

This morning, Ev – who is in charge – fell out of bed at around 8am and managed to get his staff to file their report just before 9am. Good work, Ev. Things are looking up. Now after Gillian drives you to the office and you’ve taken a couple of shots of Red Bull to get something flowing there, I suggest you get them to edit it so that it doesn’t sound, as usual, like it was written by a second-former with not-so-top marks.

Perhaps you followed the row that broke out yesterday between the prime minister and the wannabe foreign minister, Eyebrows Vella, when it turned out that Eyebrows hadn’t even got a clue what the so-called “security agreement” was about, even though this was his point at issue.

He thought it was a security treaty. It was an agreement about the security of documents. My God, how embarrassing. The prime minister said that George Vella, as shadow foreign minister then and now, should have known what it was. He said that this wasn’t some top-secret weapons treaty like the one Labour foreign minister Sceberras Trigona had signed with Kim Il Sung in North Korea.

Cue hysteria.

I’m so glad the prime minister sparked up and said that. The irony of listening to these crap artists with their motions about secret dealings when they’re the ones who stabbed Malta in the back by signing a pact with Kim Il Sung – for military training to be used against Maltese citizens in dispersing large protest meetings and so on – had really been getting to me.

It looks like it embarrasses Labour, too, even though the architect of that North Korean treaty is now their international secretary.

This is how Evarist & Co at Maltastar have lined up, this morning, AST’s secret military agreement with North Korea alongside the current Cachia-Caruana-Under-The-Bed hysteria.

Tension rose in the Committee meeting when both sides taunted each other with hiding security arrangements from the country.

The historical irony is that Evarist was a so-called reporter in the Xandir Malta newsroom when AST – his personal friend, and I remember them hanging around together at the time with their wives – did his bit with Kim Il Sung.

And here they both are, a full three decades later, the one as Labour’s internationl secretary and the other as Labour’s news website boss (and teaching budding journalists how the pros do it, at the university).

They’re like Bermuda grass. When you think you’ve got the last of the roots out, they spring back and take over the garden.