The issue is simple enough for everyone to see.

Since the government intends to finish the mandate, it can ill afford to blow the three to kingdom come.

Grin and bear seems to be the practical way to go under the circumstances.

1) How come he says he is very comfortable (komdissimu) in the PN, and then goes on to call the PN government a totallitarian government, an oligarchy, the Executive Council i don’t know what, etc? Surely komdissimu is not the right word for that.

2) If he said he does not agree one bit with the Malta Toady front page heading PAYBACK TIME, how come he has not yet instituted libel proceedings against said paper? Is this perhaps due to the fact that since Salvu considers JPO his idol, he wouldn’t want to ruffle any of his feathers?

Come on La Redoute, we all know what he meant by Sicilian business. He just wouldn’t bring himself to say Mafia. Maybe he was being careful not to offend some people.

Business is not just commercial – and do learn to recognise a metaphor when you see one.

Jesmond Mugliett is the most pathetic of the lot. Jeffrey and Franco are insufferable, but they stick to what they believe in – whatever that happens to be at the moment.

Mugliett says he made his mind up at the last minute. If we believe that, that means he disregarded the illegitimacy of the procedure, the baselessness of the motion, and all the evidence that undermined it – and then he tried to wriggle out of responsibility by asbtaining.

You only have Franco’s word for it. Given his pester power, the obvious tactic to use on him is to agree – or appear to agree – with whatever his says or thinks, and then filter him out formally.

It was clear by the fact that the special edition was circulated so soon after the vote.

Newspapers are not produced, printed and distributed in a couple of hours.

Are you serious? Believe them about what? They can’t even claim that they acted correctly, so why doubt their motivation?

They subvert the democratic process to vindicating their own ego – and you still have doubts about who’s wrong?

What they now call apartheid politics (please!) is nothing more than the legitimate exclusion of the unreliable and the spiteful from positions of power.

What they have all shown by their actions – particularly their most recent behaviour – is that the prime minister was perfectly justified in not awarding them more power than they currently have.

Hall? Is that like vinegar, the acidic stuff?