How should one classify Lou? . . . Italian supporter, Gozitan, liker of Led Zeppelin (the signs were all there) and ultimately, turncoat.

That appointment was the pre-emptive castration of an uncomfortable source of opposition.

A ‘crafty simpleton in search of headlines’ perhaps?

Joe Borg was wrong to expect to be reappointed Commissioner and he was also wrong when he made public his disappointment.

But he cannot in any way be compared to JPO, Franco Debono or John Dalli.

The betrayal of these three opportunists was disgusting and shameful. They criticised Gonzi and the PN systematically and repeatedly with the single purpose of getting something back from the PL. They did eventually get their thirty pieces of silver.

That was not the case with Joe Borg. I do not think he set out to undermine the PN, at least certainly not in a systematic way. His only mistake was the interview.

[Daphne – We have no way of knowing what he said and did in private. But my experience of people in general tells me that whatever they are prepared to do in public is just a tiny fraction of what they are prepared to do in private – or rather, amongst groups of people rather than in the media. No, I do not compare him to JPO, Franco and Dalli. But there is clearly a personality problem there all the same, and it will snap out and bite somebody within the next few years. Personality traits become more pronounced in men, not less so, with age.]