Joseph will spend the whole legislature watching his back. He can have a parliamentary majority running into a dozen seats, but won’t be able to shirk the promises done. Too many, costly and legally undoable. He’s fine now, messing behind the scenes, when it will be his call, he’ll have to gather the guts to say no. Yeah right.

The Prince wasn’t written with the funny business of democratic representation in mind.

Very interesting. Was Jeffrey aware of this?

It does give a new sense to his ‘ghalfejn qed taghmilli hekk’ and Alfred Sant’s refusal to face him.

Internal sources in Labour had expressed disgust at the way Jeffrey was about to be used, betrayed perhaps.

It is also worth noting that before hooking up with Jeffrey, Carmen Ciantar used to go to Gozo for weekend breaks with Alfred Sant and a few other people. Suffice it to say that Sant was very particular about his social circle, due to his paranoia about his wig and people cracking jokes about it.

Alfred Sant really trusted Carmen and felt at ease with her.

OctoPOS.

Silvio, are you totally ignorant of a near-fatal knife attack on a public servant by drug dealers’s thugs, determined arson attempts on Daphne’s family home, and other similar incidents – or are you simply being a jerk?

They only confirmed help in sourcing security, whereas he goes into all the detail, specifically mentioning Michelle Muscat. That wasn’t something we needed to know.

Trust him to cross someone close to him, then onto Paul Borg Olivier.

“I can publicly reiterate that I will accept any help offered by him.”

What is this guy?

Evidently he is showing that for him the end justifies the means. Whoever is Macchiavellian in his or her approach shows that he/she has no ethical or moral standards.

Is this the shining light that expects to lead this nation where everything goes till it takes him where and gets him what he wants?

This means he has no qualms for using people; so how can he ever really care for the people he wants to lead?

For JPOS, I can only say that he has lost all his sense of reason. As the old Maltese appendage says. “tilef għaqlu wara mara”.

Daphne, I wonder whether the part about the step-ladder applies to all those who have guards, police or others, on their door-steps?

[Daphne -Quite obviously not, Silvio. Some people are faced with real threats.]