I’m gobsmacked. Next thing I was expecting him to say is the importance of respect for human rights by all partnering countries he chooses to deal with and flaunt about back at home!

AD’s Carmel Cacopardo has writtten on this subject. http://www.inewsmalta.com/dart/20140717-im-allef-wenzu-mintoff

Forget Mandela, Joey.

Cyrus Engerer got there before you.

Try Mahatma Gandhi next time or, perhaps, Adenauer.

None of them have any Ss.

Unfortunately, I had a bout of insomnia last night and decided to sit through the whole gruelling 90 minute podcast.

Clearly, Muscat is delivering a lecture on a topic in which he is clearly way above his depth, but hardly stumbles whilst reading the scripted speech. His pronunciation as always, is atrocious but we do not really expect any better when he rips his own mother tongue to shreds, let alone English. We can also forgive his somewhat cocky (verging on inappropriate) comments and his attempts at humour (somewhat offensive), but he is young and he is hip (or so he thinks).

Muscat starts to go off track in the Q&A session, as no amount of scripting could ever prepare him for the random and diverse questions that he was asked. Funnily enough, a Maltese person in the audience asks about the commonwealth and Malta’s immigration problems, which had me wondering briefly whether the audience was peppered with elves.

In his attempts to reply to these questions, Muscat starts to flounder and if his pronunciation was already bad, it worsens significantly, as does his grammer. Clearly, he is being forced to come up with replies on the spur of the moment and his CPU is now overloaded. In an attempt to formulate some sort of reply, he fails to collect his thoughts and replies in sometimes incomplete phrases of badly pronounced maltesisms.

His phrase “I do not know who put down the plane and I don’t have the intelligence to say that” had me laughing as I felt it so befitting of this ‘wannabe’ heavyweight who has no clout whatsoever.

I find it somewhat humiliating to have a Prime Minister who is so capable of showing his complete lack of lustre the moment he is off script. The Q&A session shows the real depth of his knowledge on the subject, and what is more, it shows him up as a Prime Minister who is unable to phrase a single fully articulate sentence unless he is actually reading. Go figure.

http://carmelcacopardo.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/l-imhallef-wenzu-mintoff/

It would be fair the point out that AD was not founded or set-up by either Wenzu Mintoff or/and Toni Abela, but by environmentalists who believed that it was time to participate in elections rather than remain a lobby group.

I believe that Wenzu’s and Toni’s bold public denouncement of the MLP, and their expulsion drew solidarity from the likes of Cassola, Vassallo, Mallia, Cachia, Manduca, Balzan & Co. – and they were roped in.

Wenzu was elected the first chairperson simply because at that time he was an MP.

That wasn’t in Muscat’s crib sheet. He was answering a question.

What are the hafna lingwi. The majority of the Maltese cannot string together an intelligible sentence in Italian and this is a language of our close neighbour.