Missu jisthi.

Dan haseb li hu xi genju u kapaci jaghddi iz-zmien b’kullhadd ghax jaqbad jibki quddiem il-folla?

Hallina JPO u mur inheba. Nies korrotti bhalek fil-Partit Laburista biss isibu refugju ghax dawk dejjem iddefendew lil nies korrotti.

Pero’ int qatt ma’ xoft xejn u ghadek zghir ghax dawk juzawk u jarmuk. U nies korrotti u bla principju bhalekk hekk biss jixraqilhom.

Would make delightful viewing.

The so-called disgruntled Nationalists are those who expected hand-outs and didn’t get them. Those who prefer the fish to the rod and the knowledge to use it.

In direct reference to JPO and Mugliett – an employee in the private industry who does not perform, or who completely screws up his/her job, is asked to leave.

If they’re capable, they find a job elsewhere and life goes on. They do not hang around and taunt their employer until they make the company they work for bankrupt.

Yes Jeffrey, yes Mugliett – you both screwed up in your positions yet you expected to be given important roles again. How did you work that one out?

I chose the rod and the knowledge of how to use it. I never expected anything apart from an environment where I could learn and better myself.

I graduated from a univeristy that actually paid me to study there. I followed a career because there was an enviroment which enabled me to do so.

When I took an opportunity to work and live abroad I did so because the party in government had a vision to enter Malta into the EU and therefore created an environment where I could.

I never expected hand-outs, I never expected to have my cake and eat it, and I never asked a politician for a cushy job. That is why I am not a digruntled Nationalist and that is why, although Air Malta do not operate in the country where I live, I will drive for six hours to catch a Ryanair flight to Malta to exercise my duty to vote (and take note JPO – it is a duty to vote) for the only party that can create that environment.

It looks like these demons are going their full ravaging circle. Is it praepropere, acedia, ira, invidia and superbia that are eating away at him? Why is it so transparent to some and others seem blind or oblivious to it?

If you are raised without the discipline of values, where is the backbone ever going to be? A backbone is formed after years of discipline. This can’t be conjured out of a hat.

How will he ever be taken seriously by anyone ever again? I think people like him are self-condemned.

There would be more honour to his actions, even at this late stage, were he to go into retreat and observe a rule of silence. I’m certain that some respect generally would be found by both sides for at least that.

Whose ego is best served by what he’s doing? His own? Joseph & Co.s?

One thing that comes to mind: Hadd m’hu ser jahsel wiccek biex inti tkun ahjar minnu.

Why am I convinced that Joseph – the Co. conveniently relegated – only stands to deliver this quality of justice and fairness?

Let’s take it slightly further: why am I convinced that on the same pivotal concept, but for entirely different reasons, Louis will also be ignored and shunned once he’s served his purpose of seemingly raising the standard of the Labour Party from its intellectual (but not its cultural) abyss?

The photo of Joseph fawning over Louis gives me the shivers: Sets me thinking, again, about Yellow Stars and 1994.

Why did I find it strange that when Louis was ushered in, there was a big fuss made about his past as Air Malta Chairman and other positions held but none whatsoever about the, to me, more evident Mintoff parallel?

I have a feeling that as much as Joseph needs Louis as a step-up, there are stirrings of more than invidia in that generation of vipers.

JPO was on my ballot paper in 2008. I did not give him a vote. With hindsight, I think I had a good foresight.

Hopefully they won’t. Rats remain rats in spite of all the botox you inject them with.