The Prime Minister is speaking now (bitchily)

He’s saying that he hasn’t ignored people’s concerns, that he is well aware of them, that he has acted on them (except, of course, that he hasn’t).

Now he’s saying that he understands why people like Evarist Bartolo have been “hurt” (hardly the right word, is it) by what happened. He doesn’t mention what happened. I can see that he is going to talk around the elephant in the room.

The Opposition is arrogant, Muscat is saying now. “The Opposition has learned nothing. What an arrogant tone they use. They are still the same.” Unbelievable. Does this scratched old record still work, three years down the line? No, it doesn’t. The battle-map has changed, and Muscat hasn’t yet understood it.

There he goes again: arrogant, he says, to resounding applause from the assorted cabbages, interspersed with the occasional smart person, on his benches. “They think they have a divine right to govern.” To hear him talk, you wouldn’t believe that this is a corrupt man busy protecting his two corrupt henchmen.

Now he’s talking about Mario Demarco’s builders’ bill. I mean, honestly. I can see how his off-the-wall reasoning and sarcastic tone resonates with some of the people I know – perverse switchers with a poor level of education and a very average IQ, who think they’re clever when all they are is chippy – but he’s shedding those rapidly. It’s now really embarrassing to admit to agreeing with Muscat or show that you support him, and that is very telling.

I can’t bear to listen to him anymore – for heaven’s sake, the man has just said “high MOW-RILL ground” and “VEALED TRETT” – so I’m off to have supper. I don’t have much time for Mrs Muscat, as everyone knows, but really, imagine being in the kitchen with this arsehole when he’s in one of his bitchy moods.

I can’t believe it. He’s just said that Konrad Mizzi doesn’t have to resign because David Cameron didn’t. Surely he can’t believe that whacked-out reasoning, and it’s just something he’s trying to feed to his flock of sheep. How are the two cases even remotely comparable? Cameron was given shares in his father’s entirely legitimate fund years ago and sold those shares before he joined the government. Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri set up their entirely illegitimate companies in Panama AFTER they joined the government and BECAUSE they were in the government. In other words, they are crooks.

Muscat has also said that he doesn’t bother with numbers (like hell he doesn’t) and that he doesn’t care about the online polls which say that 80% of respondents want Konrad Mizzi to go. “If I cared about that kind of thing I would never have legislated for civil unions,” he said. Again, an argument directed at his sheep. The cases are not comparable. Civil unions is a minority rights issue, and minority rights should never be subjected to the will of the majority. But if 80% of respondents are telling you that you should sack your corrupt minister, then you have got to listen.

God, now it’s that Deborah Schembri, Parliamentary Secretary for Lands, talking about Konrad Mizzi’s “mistakes” and crawling like there’s no tomorrow. I really can’t bear these people. They’re from a different planet.