Exactly, it seems Joseph doesn’t understand the perverse dynamics when this sort of implicit intimidation takes hold.

It stokes itself on the silence it generates.

This is what being Labour must feel like. Shutting up and keeping it to oneself.

Explains all the elvish these four years. ‘We’re like you’ they say, no, not really.

Theyve seen how they can live with us, but whether we can live with them is still an unknown.

When they don’t feel obliged to present the program and settle down to the proper campaign, they expect to own us, as much as they do theirs.

I think this election is the best opportunity to resolve the matter. The way I see it, the party’s too diluted of any coherence to survive should the unthinkable happen.

It’s an offer most wouldn’t refuse.

And yet, Joseph Muscat thinks Leo Brincat is incapable of acting aggressively towards anyone. Really? What is his idea of aggression? Throwing people headfirst out of the Strangers’ Gallery? Or breaking MPs’ teeth in Parliament?

That is precisely one of the many reasons why Malta was run by an undemocratic regime between 1977 and 1987.

For the latter half of that decade actually governed against the will of the majority.

His golden years.

Never again.

But this clip chills me to the bone – the thought of being surrounded by fellow Maltese who supported these violent measures and still think of Mintoff as their saviour makes me nauseous.

Only last week I had an insight into how delusional Labour supporters can be. Overheard someone say “Oh I can’t wait for Labour to be in government so that I can have free healthcare again, anytime I want like in Mintoff’s time.”

I guess listening to One News exclusively does effect one’s mind.

Attitudes of this nature give away what’s coming. Joe Mifsud did not forgive him for this notwithstanding he had no voice.