I’m baffled you would wish that unless you are a fan of Dr Muscat. I hope we will not be seeing his sorry face again after his stint as PM.

My wish, unrealistic though it may be, is that he is defeated at the next election and that we are rid of this lying, scheeming megalomaniac for good. I never thought I would once again witness such a ransacking of the public purse as there is now.

One can never tell.

But I hope it’ll never come to the point where her husband raises taxes and she has to intercede on our behalf.

Can they really tell us what jobs have been created, what new industries have invested, when the power station is going to be really a finished project, which is really their contingency plan for Ebola and Isis and wars breaking out next door.

We seem to be living in a pretty pink bubble, a surreal world. What exactly is the plan?

I mean where is the road map taking us to…and where is the real sensible sense of the Opposition which does not hammer on these issues daily. Please all stop treating the electorate as idiots even though quite a few may be others aren’t.

She’ll need a new title since she calls herself first lady now.

Who started it? I would say it was the constellation of intellectuals, shadowy or otherwise, who rose to prominence in the wake of the 1987 PN government and economic liberalisation.

They set up a positive feedback loop, where bling was declared the new religion, the politicians ran with that message, the people started flaunting their new money, and the intellectuals praised the brave new world.

Then came Xarabank, and the marriage was consummated.

Call me jaded, but to those of us with neither power nor bling, it all looks like enslavement through democracy.

Daphne, are you excluding that she could lead a coup against her husband’s government?

They should be hiding – their faces in shame!

Klessy for women. For men it’s “smart”. As in “dejjem smart, gotbless”.

In 10 years’ time the Duchess of Burmarrad will be the First Lady.

[Daphne – Yes, and the ‘tu quoque’ response from her husband will be that Eddie Fenech Adami did it too.]

No, not at all.

What has me very worried is that people seem to accept these things as if they are normal.

They are in turn flaunted by the pigs busy at the trough, and somewhat enviously admired by the unfortunates left sniffing the feast from afar, i.e. on the Times of Malta comments-board.