Four years from now, actually, the only hospitable place that might be considered high-end would be the Auberge de Castille, with all of those pompous, insufferable oafs of government ministers feasting.

The new MDA president will be Sandro Chetcuti.

I hear that Chetcuti is also gearing up to stand for election on the Labour ticket and that he is working hard towards that end, with a view to being a minister or parliamentary secretary post 2018. Time flies.

True, but they might even leave their property vacant. All the more reason why Astrid Vella should protest about this – more vacant properties. There were 70,000 the last time I checked. Make that 71,800 now.

So Henley & Partners have a real estate arm – just wait for their glass, bamboo and pebble agency office somewhere along Tower Road.

And don’t forget the ginseng cappucino. What a nation of suckers.

And if they’re not even required to even glimpse the property who’s holding them back from sub-letting to others?

Iz-zunzana ddur iddur…..

It’s also not clear whether these contracts can be extended to property on plan. The ultimate Ponzi scheme.

As for keeping government bonds for five years, if there was a sign of Muscat’s short term thinking it has to be this one.

Does he realise what effect this will have on their issue, who’s going to buy these when in five year’s time there will be a constant supply of 150k packets which could be dumped, supposedly compensated by Chetcuti’s envisaged real estate spike? I wouldn’t, I’d wait and shop later.

This incestuous interlinking of property values and sovereign debt has to be the most dangerous idea yet. Throw in the secretive plans to create developable land and it becomes explosive, it’s Zapatero, Dubai and Azeri delusions in one.

I don’t think we’ve actually realised the risks involved here, even more so when this prime minister behaves and speaks like he has a hidden agenda.

What’s sick is how since summer, FDI, GDP, employment, have been linked exclusively to pure speculation. Meantime unemployment’s up by 500%, following the greatest production dip in six years.

Muscat needs to clarify whether he wishes re-election or not.

Fil-verita dan huwa biss ragel sinjur. Il-bqija rghib, vojt u injorant. Intelligenza u integrita xejn. Armi’ l hemm.

Forsi ma jafx bl-Ingliz u high end hasbu xi wiehed mill-flats ta’ fuq nett f’ Tower Road Sliema. Li hu ukoll b`dawk il-flus ma tixtrihx.

Li hu zgur hu li, li tkun segretarju tad-Developer`s Association u ma tkunx taf il-prezzijiet ma thallilek ebda triq hlief li taghlaq il-bieb u titlaq l`hemm. Sahha.

Incidentalment il-qalziet tal-Mrs ma jidhirx imdennes bit-trab iswed li ghandha fil-bitha.