David, I sincerely hope your comment about Maltese English is sarcastic. Although mind you, I also believe that Maltese English exists..

Self-serving interests are ‘a given’, and who among us would honestly refuse a similar opportunity?

But whose interests beyond his own is he serving?

It cannot be the Maltese electorate, because he fought tooth and nail to keep Malta out of the EU. Is it perhaps that he and his ilk, having warned the people that membership would reduce their ‘sovereignty’, create unemployment and more, are now intent on a ‘Quisling’ action to thwart EU ambition and success?

What other explanation can there be?

We know that member-states with domestic opposition to the EU concept do not commit their finest talents to Brussels, and this was never better exemplified than by the British nomination of Neil Kinnock (later Lord Kinnock) as an EU Commissioner.

Alfred Sant is not a fool. Alfred Sant was/is a vehement opposer of Malta EU membership.

So why would Joseph Muscat support him, if not to work towards Malta’s exclusion from EU membership and thus release the restraints and restrictions it imposes on Labour Party political ambitions?

Beware the spectre of a return to the worst practices of Dom Mintoff.

In this is case, though he might have not obtained the necessary permits, Charles really adores cats and goes out of his ways to feed and take care of them. So I am sure that he was taking care of these stray cats in the way he states to Inewsmalta.

Let’s face it though, that’s one of the biggest jokes in Malta. Half the population does not know how to speak the language and completely rejects it, while nine-tenths of the other half speak it badly but think they speak it well.

You’d just hope someone would have the nous to seek out that tiny fraction.

Instead, we have this idiot as a PM thinking English is in fact his official language and that he has the skills necessary to use it, journalists on MaltaToday and The Malta Independent and Times of Malta making my eyes burn first thing every morning, Michelle Muscat talking about chincherbret and subliterate idiots referring to blokks.

Sorry, long rant, but they have broken my little English-language heart.

But Maltese is the national language. Besides there are varoius types of English as UK English, US English, Australian English, Irish English and so on. We should have Maltese English.

[Daphne – Go away, David. Please. For your own sake.]

He was voted in as a Maltese citizen, i.e. someone for whom English is an official language.

You are free to assume what you like.

[Daphne – I know that. And your answer is another dead-giveaway from which I am free to assume that I was right.]

Spot on Matz. If he really knows his English grammar well, we have a problem, if not, who cares.

[Daphne – You have a problem either way, Brimbu. It’s not his inability to speak/write English that’s the problem here, but his inability to understand that he needs to have it checked to the required standard for a prime minister. Seeing that he doesn’t bother, you can assume that he doesn’t bother with standards in other areas, too. But the bigger concern, of course, is that he’s poorly educated.]

One mistake. I am not Labour or Nationalist for that matter.

[Daphne – That usually means Labour. Correction: it usually means somebody raised in a Labour household who’s likes to think he’s making his own political choices, which means the choice of ‘nothing’.]