Mintoff himself instructed Joseph on who to mould himself on. Joseph has become the snake-oil artist par excellence. He has had over 10 years of practice in honing the method and style.

Truth will be fashioned according to convenience, until it’s time for a new truth to take its place. And so on, and so forth.

A snake-oil artist’s worst nightmare is public exposure and traceability.

That is why the bases were covered and are so very lame.

There is only one person who can stop him, but he’s been handed his silver mine: for the moment sufficient.

In any case, the lion in the den has been left hungry.

He is slowly but surely seeking to control everything. His style is even worse than Mintoff’s.

You could see Mintoff coming a mile away. With this guy, he flatters, woos, is deceitful, saying one thing whilst meaning something altogether different.

Joseph Muscat had himself dismissed the salary increase offered to him as Leader of the Opposition by the previous administration as a ‘bribe.’

Moreover, we expect him to respect the role of the Opposition which is there to hold him accountable to us.

Let us give Muscat the benefit of the doubt about his statement referring to a derelict building. The Malta Labour Party was broken, and it needed fixing. But I think it is still fundamentally broken, and they need to go back to the foundations. It is not clear at all what Labour stands for nowadays – they have lost their soul as a workers’ party, but did not develop a new identity as a replacement.

The decisions taken in the first few weeks by Joseph Muscat show precisely this. The Great Leader is not driven by what is right. He is driven by divide and rule politics aimed only so that he can increase his grip over the machine of power.

Preferably before the election, voters deserve to know who and what they’re voting for. I suppose Simon fully understands this.

If he needs the Opposition’s support for any changes to the constitution he’ll have to do the same.

The decent thing to do in this case is to see which issues enjoy both parties’ consent. It’s called political dialogue.

When he goes after Opposition members with a 9 seat majority, he comes across as someone who not at home in his party.

The pattern iin his behaviour and motives has been clear, Muscat looks and feels like an outsider.

Pity he doesn’t have JPO, Mugliett and Franco in parliament then.

Muscat didn’t do much reading for his doctorate. I doubt he did any at all.

Joseph Muscat said that, likening Malta to a derelict building, in reply to an interviewer’s question as to what led him to a take up a career in politics.

Fair enough. The readings for his doctorate however seem to have missed out the following:

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”

While Joseph Muscat’s comparison had some validity in his early days under the disastrous Mintoff and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici Labour Party governments, Joseph Muscat’s personal ambitions have blinded him to the fact that, over the years, Malta had long been repaired and excellently embellished by successive PN governments.

The changes now under way are all part of Joseph Muscat’s great plan to distort and destroy a well run and stable country to fit into the attainment of his boyhood dream – spoilt child par excellence.

I seem to remember a friend on this blog who uttered an important phrase, ‘NO SURRENDER’.

The head dwarf must be thwarted.