That press conference was beyond ridiculous.

Martin Xuereb will be sent to Brussels. To do what, we haven’t been told. But I assume it will more or less be a continuation of his 1996 job as defence attaché and representative to the Partnership Coordination Cell of the Partnership for Peace.

Except back then he was a Captain. Now he’s a Brigadier and former AFM Commander. It’s like sending the CEO back to the ground floor as tea-boy.

But there’s more. For all its Mintoffian bluster on the evils of PfP and Nato, Labour is sending the Armed Forces’ top man to liaise with PfP. And, I assume, as EU Military Committee Representative.

KMB eat your heart out. Privitera eat your heart out. Joseph Muscat eat your heart out.

Unless of course this is our way of going out in style, with the big fireworks and all. First we send the top brass then we withdraw, again, from PfP. Paving the way for withdrawal from the EU.

And didn’t Labour promise to withdraw Malta from the EU Military Committee the moment it was elected?

I don’t expect any of our journalists to ask what Xuereb’s job will be, because they are all such confounded mouth-breathing morons.

On Xuereb, one would usually say something about lions led by donkeys. Except in the AFM it’s Mintoffians and bigoted racist Right-Wingers led by brown-nosing donkeys. If the rank and file are unhappy about the machinations in the AFM, they have only themselves to blame. The AFM was behind Labour, to a man.

He was inexperienced and needed full assistance. That’s the opinion of all at the AFM.

In these last few months, he was a doormat for the government, but he was ‘happy’ as he was betting on his future.

He succeeded by letting others down, demonstrating full selfishness. Nothing more and nothing less.

[Daphne – Actually, what he demonstrated was his absolute, total lack of suitability as an army officer, still more so as the army’s commanding officer. Any character traits that indicated he is the sort who would be disloyal to his fellow officers and act primarily to protect his own narrow self-interest should have been spotted early on and disqualified him for the post. Fortunately Malta no longer has to fight wars, but imagine somebody with those character traits in that situation – the potential for damage would be enormous.]

It’s just like those farces where the protagonists run around the stage the whole time, unable to see the baddies right behind them, except that it’s tragically real.