Poor old labour 15 years in opposition and did not come with a concrete plan regards the main aspects of our lives.

Labour used to criticise government for giving free energy saving lamps. Now labour is promising free water tap reducers and incentives for green energy. These promises are not sufficient to vote for change.

Interesting, because China’s ever-growing natural gas demands means it is a net importer. But it has its eyes on Algeria. Are they planning on turning Malta into a natural gas hub for the med? Algeria to Turkey via Malta?

Now CAN someone please ask these questions at a press conference? Daphne, please.

For the love of self, Baxxter, you’re not alone.

Muscat’s smug non-replies are maddening not least because they show his:

1. contempt for the elecorate whose members are supposed to vote him into power and do themselves in on the basis of his not answering basic questions;

2. contempt for his party members who have been drilled to say they’ll answer questions fil-hin propizju (thin cover for the fact that they don’t know much themselves);

3. contempt for the IQ level of his critics who are not supposed to notice his cosying up to People Who Shall Not Be Named, or allowing them to cosy up to him.

Let’s take a wild guess: a communist country that has given capitalism free reign in the name of The People, is buying up Africa, has the US in its foreign debt vice, already owns most of Asia, wants a lever in EU affairs, and stores a secret weapon in Malta, offers a bottomless well of finance to a short-sighted megalomaniac with designs on the premiership of an island that is conveniently in the EU.

Cetta’s bills are magicked down to 9c6 per unit, the megalomaniac gets to be PM, the financier gets a grip on Europe and the brokers get their fat fees.

Everyone who matters is happy, and the rest of us go to hell.

On checking Wikipedia, I have found that it was actually he who said that. Apologies for lack of prior verification.

No it was not, as far as I can remember. But, even if he did, Cromwell did more than just saying that – he had his legitimate King’s head chopped off. Now we do not wish that to happen to il-ginger, do we!

If things go wrong, Joseph Muscat will abandon ship. And that’s a promise, not a threat.

More Francesco Schettino than Edward Smith.

Just what Malta needs.

I’ll check, Jozef.

If it’s sorted, then can they please make it public? We’ll be, er, voting for this plan in a few weeks. Being told the plan is the least we can expect.

Our dependence on Chinese coal and Libyan oil shaped our foreign policy for forty years. Then we started to diversify, and won some precious elbow room. PN decided connect us to the European energy grid and suddenly our foreign policy shackles were lifted. We will be reconnected to Europe in a fundamental way, far deeper than EU legislation.

Joseph Muscat’s plan is a major shift in energy policy. It will also be a shift in foreign policy. For the love of god, we need to know.