We should thank the Good Lord our Shepherd for Doctor Mario Vella. Having studied economics in the GDR means he knows all there is to know about what not to do for an enterprise to thrive and flourish.

Besides, it’s not like we have had no proof of his capabilities in the past. You cannot downplay his worth, just as you cannot wet an ocean… even if you piss on it. Try it.

Moreover, taking this a step further, from the ‘political economy’ to the ‘politically correct’ there is hardly a bridge to cross. It’s more like crossing from Gzira to Manoel Island than across the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

[Daphne – Oh sorry to upset you, Kevin. I forgot for a moment there that you too were (re)educated in the USSR. Touchy subject, I would imagine.]

When the wall came down and the West Berlin authorities stepped in, the four border guards were tried and found guilty and, a few short years later, Mario Vella was appointed to a government quango where he took Joseph Muscat under his wing.

Apart from the scrutiny to pass through, one could see soldiers with guns all over the place. The most impressive sight was of two soldiers with a machine gun in a sort of glass cockpit on top of the Brandenburg Gate.

Ambassador Borg Marks doesn’t have to attract investors. They have employed Mrs Konrad Mizzi for that.

He was sitting there, praising the Chinese government and economy, defending Muscat’s strategic ‘partnership’ (‘l-ahjar ghazla’) with China.

Besides his communist political waffle, there was little economic and business attitude that I could see in him that could convince any non-communist ‘investor’ to come to Malta.

Let’s give up our jobs en masse and sign up to study political science.

Of course no workers means no tax but so what.

We shall eat and breathe our ideals.