That Ian Borg is one to watch, and for all the wrong reasons

He’s just 29, and he’s really on the make. What could have been mistaken at first as idealistic political ambition and plenty of youthful energetic drive has turned out to be naked lust for power, money and land.

He wants to make it, all right – but what he wants to make is 100% material.

Owen Bonnici was another one. I read those early interviews with him some 10 years ago and he sounded like a new politician full of ideals, still in his 20s, always interested in politics from back when he was at school.

Then he begins to make it in the Labour Party, starts having affairs, becomes Minister for Justice at an unseasonable 34, leaves his wife and child for a hard-edged Super One reporter, is seen wobbling drunk down a street in Valletta, crashes his car into a stationary vehicle, and tomorrow begins marital separation procedures in the Family Court for which he is responsible because he failed to reach an amicable settlement with his wife.

And with all that going on, he has to concentrate on the affairs of state. This government is turning into a French farce or one of Berluska’s Bunga-Bunga parties.

The one most noticeable this about this lot in government is that they can’t handle power. It was a race to the trough and a land-grab while chasing girls round the office and hanging out in bars. In just two years of power, the fairly new marriages of three cabinet ministers have collapsed, one of them a second marriage, all of them with very young children towards whom they have a responsibility to keep it together. I really don’t think it’s a coincidence.