The only one who can stop the boats and call them back is Twanny tal-Bronka.

Maybe Muscat can send him to Libya.

Simon Busuttil was brilliant, with excellent communication ability.

He asked what the Commissioner of Police had given to Dr. Muscat so that the latter could not sack him.

I think this is a matter of what the Commissioner knows, and what he might be tempted to reveal, if Dr. Muscat were to dismiss him.

For instance, could it be that the Commissioner could reveal political interference with his work from the Office of the Prime Minister?

Dr. Muscat has denied in Parliament that he put political pressure on the Commissioner in the Dalli case, but I think he is lying.

Incidentally, this trait was accurately identified by the Speaker of the House before he was made to resign from Deputy Leader during the election campaign.

The prime minister is trying to disguise his cold and calculated motives as an interest in helping Libya. He may manage to hoodwink his Maltese fans but international diplomats may not be so impressed.

A few days ago he lamented that the EU has not yet accepted his position that Libya had become stable. I think he was the only PM in the normal world to believe that Libya is stable.

Now he is talking about Libya being at risk of becoming a failed state.

In contrast, Gonzi stuck his neck out, being the first to support the Libyan people in their struggle to oust Gaddafi and his regime.

The chasm between the PL and the PN is widening at a steady pace and it is happening earlier than one would have thought.

When all hell was let loose in Tunisia his main concern was that Malta should capitalize on the situation to boost its tourist trade.

Now in the case of the dramatic situation affecting our closest neighbour to the South, his concern is reversed.

We need to do something to reduce the influx of tourists of the wrong and most unwelcome variety.

Unbelievabe but true.

We have been landed with a Prime Minister who is a pathological egocentric.

A psychopath.

“to emerge from its instability so that it could assist its neighbours such as Niger, Sudan and Ethiopia overcome their internal conflicts and resultant food shortages for the betterment of their kind”

That would have made some difference, but then Joseph Muscat’s coherence in speech is a reflection of the characters he’s surrounded himself with.

Moreover Muscat’s limited governance capabilities, to quote political journalist Simon Hoggar, “ is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals,”

Joseph Muscat tries administers through the use idioms, metaphors and catch phrases.

The 1979 film ‘Being There’ offers a textbook example of how to achieve success through vagueness.

May I suggest one sees the film before the next election.

[Daphne – Bear in mind that he would have been primed by his mate John Dalli, who clearly wanted Gaddafi to survive and stay in power, and even, at a press conference, dismissed the revolutionaries as frauds who couldn’t possibly have written their own placards in English.]