Somebody please pop a downer in the Malta Council for Science and Technology chairman’s mug of Earl Grey – he’s off on another Facebook bender

The Chairman of the Malta Council of Science and Technology, in another drunken incident at another bar on another day. Maybe they spiked his drink(s) again like they did at that David Guetta concert a couple of years back, when he got into a brawl and had to be escorted out by security.

Right now, he’s busy attacking and impugning 22-year-old Nicky Azzopardi, whose crime was to tell him off for behaving in public in a way that befits neither a 50-year-old man nor a public official.

He is also accusing him of bringing his children into it, giving the impression that Azzopardi somehow slandered or threatened them. The reality is that Azzopardi did what people that age usually do when in discourse with people my age and Pullicino Orlando’s: “I’m a friend of your son/daughter. I came to a party at your house.” In other words, what they’re doing in that situation is establishing the relationship, the boundaries and most crucially, the generational differences.

Maybe the MCST chairman, busy knocking back the booze at Marrakesh at 5am and thinking he’s the same generation as his children and Nicky Azzopardi, doesn’t get this. I do.

If ever I am in a bar (never at 5am) and spot my children’s friends, I say hello and then leave as soon as I can. Who wants their friends’ parents hanging around in the same bars? I never did, and I assume things haven’t changed that way.

Instead of feeling ashamed that he was ticked off for bad/inappropriate behaviour in a public bar, by one of his children’s friends (the reverse of normality), the MCST chairman is now going ballistic on Facebook, uploading photos of this kid and tearing him to shreds.

He’s done this before with other friends of his children, most notoriously after the father of one of them lampooned him in a cartoon published in The Sunday Times. The man has no boundaries, no shame, and worst of all, no self-control.

The Malta Council for Science and Technology should resign en masse, if he does not do so himself. This sordid, out-of-control man is bringing the council into grave disrepute. Google ‘Malta Council for Science and Technology’ and what you get is his drunken escapades.

But then, the Malta Council for Science and Technology is made up of Labour stooges, so expect no different. Jeffrey’s deputy chairman there has extensive experience in handling individuals who go berserk after steady drinking, but you’d think he’d want a break from all that, not more of the same.

X’imbarazz.