He is such a likable person that all in Bormla will regret this dirty useless move.

Mifsud Bonnici gained MORE respect. The PL is made to look ridiculous and Franco Debono seems to have become the Leader of the Opposition.

That’s all it boils down to, really.”

It is indeed. When I heard about the vote yesterday, I was having dinner at Valletta Waterfront. I just looked across the Grand Harbour, saw the Three Cities and thought to myself: funny how the PL colluded to remove one of their own.

Indeed, Carm Mifsud Bonnici is no Labour man but he is very much loved by so many Labour people.

This is not some high-flying businessman the PL has attacked. No. This is a humble lawyer, working for peanuts for years trying to help his clients’ (more often than not) desperate lives. I know this as a fact, personally.

So, with whom has the PL scored points really?

My heart goes out to Carm because he has indeed been the sacrificial lamb.

And now Jose’ is trying to defend the indefensible on Bondi+: he’s pitiful.

There’s a growing dissent among the grassroots for two reasons; If Joseph’s capable of this, there’s nothing to hold him from doing the same internally, when he was supposed to be the one to heal the wounds. Maybe the choice was piloted to keep out those genuine enough to believe it.

Now that it’s out in the open that a growing faction thinks these tactics are counterproductive and inelegant, whose role is it to see that the inner circle doesn’t cut him off completely? It cannot be his wife, she carries baggage going back to 1996, Anglu’s non existent and has no appeal, Toni Abela can’t stand Yana and George Vella won’t be hanged out to dry again after last Monday.

Joseph has one major defect, an impatience which leads him to contradict his ghaqal mantra. This was the one who vouched a responsible, constructive Opposition remember? The more time passes, the more rushed the decisions.

One wonders who’s pushing him to it. It could be a test to see how long he’ll last.

You were right, Now what? Is it back to kontijiet tad-dawl u l-ilma? Bit humdrum now.

Dan qieghed jahseb li ser ikun xi Prim Imhallef jew xi Ministru?

Possibbli li qeghdin jghaddulu dawn il-hsibijiet mill-kuriduri ta’ mohhu?

Jekk veru jemmen dak li qieghed jghid, ahjar jibbukkja kamra f’H’Attard.

Let Labour shoot themselves in the foot; although I feel sorry for CMB. I also hope that PN chooses its candidates more carefully next time round. No more loonies please.

Pu ghal wiccek Franco u ghal genn li ghandek f’mohhok.

People feel that the government had to be warned about its past failures and abuse of public funds. It just happened that the circumstances (Franco Debono) brought CMB to the fore of the queue leading to the sacrifical altar that our political system has construed as a safety valve when public discontent with government needs to be quelled.

The resignation of CMB should now serve as a warning to other PN ministers and sinisters. But will they listen? I doubt it.

[Daphne – You have misread the situation. This unsavoury episode does not serve as a warning to other ministers. It serves as a warning to the electorate.]