Jozef, it is terrible but not incredible if you follow where Joseph has absorbed his new-truthing from. It’s frightening.

Let’s all chip in and get him a one-way ticket. The Latinos’ll love him. Short, round, blond, loud and promising a bright neverland. With pushy trophy wife too.

Bloody hell. Is there no hope then? Will we still be dreading Maltese elections in 2064?

The PM was adamant to the contrary.

Bondi then specified that both leaders had 15 seconds spare time before answering.

It was incredible.

No, Baxxter, I don’t think it will yet (do the trick, that is). The stranglehold Mintoff had on the the Labour Party since ousting Boffa is still there.

The attitude, envy, opportunism, double-talk, intolerance and general ineptitude at doing politics are still embedded in the party. So, my take is that even if Labour suffers another defeat, they will still find it hard to learn their lesson.

When Joe Micallef Stafrace broke off with Mintoff and resigned from Minister during Mintoff’s first tenure in the early 70s, he used to refer to him (Mintoff) as “dak li jahseb li x-xemx telghet meta tela’ hu”.

Mintoff begat KMB and Labour went literally “to the dogs”. Alfred Sant invented himself with a New Labour tag. He may have controlled the violence but his political stances remained equally negative and retrograde – EU Membership.

One can say that Sant begat Joseph, but this one presents himself now (on the eve of the elections) as completely new to his predecessors.

Any reference to the working class and associated ‘red’ connotations (including the colour itself) has been removed from party officialdom.

On the contrary he talks more of the middle-class and dreams of creating a ‘new’ one, though he never explained what he means by that.

Fortunately for us and the electorate he could not hide his admiration of Mintoff and his golden years. He even made it a point to be surrounded by many of the same people from that era.

Even now, he might possibly have very few choices who to appoint as ministers from the ‘new crop’, so he can always turn to the old (fossilised) guard.

Labour has committed too many strategic mistakes and these will continue to bear heavily on its conscience (or psyche if you like) for quite some time still, before coming out clean.

Nail on the head Baxxter. This is precisely it.