Does anybody remember when, before the last election, during a programme where Lou Bondi was quizzing Muscat (I remembered that I had noted that Bondi was very weak compared to his normally aggressive style) Muscat finished the programme by telling him that one day he will get him to vote Labour. Does anyone have a link to the YouTube video?

Wasn’t aware of that, and did he really? Nice.

And what do you expect, when it is conducted by a stupid person. Gibberish at its best.

And you seriously think that the other stations would pay them the thousands P.B.S does?

In the end Labour managed to destroy Xarabank. Good.

I’m afraid I cannot answer your headline question.

I must admit that, at a great disadvantage to my education and general culture, it has been ages ago since I watched Xarabank. It was the second time I did it in the programme’s ‘glorious’ history.

I therefore plead guilty to my utter ignorance of the contents, value, and methods of the programme and of the merits of its presenter.

Now, we all know that explaining ethics to a Super One reporter is liking asking a paedophile not to touch another child again. It simply can never happen.

So why did he participate in that farce – did he strike a deal with Joseph Muscat there and then? All the editions of Xarabank during the last three years of the PN administration, and the topics chosen, have to be seen and scrutinized in this context.

[Daphne – The only context you need is that Joe Azzopardi voted Labour in 1996, which meant a vote against EU membership for Malta and a vote for the removal of VAT and a vote to make Sant prime minister.]