What a great idea it was to put these people in government

Is he going to carry on for much longer with this defensive tactic of calling all his critics destructive and negative? Because it isn’t working any more. In the beginning it might have done. Now he comes across as just plain menacing and nasty, and even Louis Grech’s rare presence at his shoulder can’t do anything to help that, because the people who used to respect Grech or like him no longer do.

I’m afraid that Muscat is now coming across as a very angry and threatening tin-pot despot who, given enough time, will find justification for a power-protection system in which Enemies of the State are found dead under bridges or chopped up in abandoned wells.

That’s exactly how Malta ended up in 1986 – with the police dumping under a bridge at night the body of a man murdered during interrogation, and an accountant – who worked for the land-barons surrounding a Labour government minister – abducted from his home and his remains found a long time afterwards dumped in an abandoned well. He had been chopped into pieces using a chainsaw. That was Malta under Labour after two terms in government.

Let’s hope that this time round, the self-destructive stupidity and spite of the “limited good” mentality Maltese will not give us 16 years of this uncivilised, undemocratic, corrupt and backward hell, as happened last time round.

Oh sorry, last time round was actually 22 months.