Prime Minister’s communications aide tells journalists: “You don’t have to ask questions at a press conference.”

Journalists were right royally cheesed off when invited to a press conference at the Office of the Prime Minister about – and this was very strange – private investment by a Qatari outfit in a private bank that isn’t even Maltese-owned. They sat there and listened, brimming with questions, but the Prime Minister and the Qatari walked out immediately after speaking.

Ramona Attard, one of the Prime Minister’s several communications aides plucked from the Labour Party television/radio payroll and put on the public payroll in his office, was left to face the music and did so really badly. “You don’t have to ask questions just because it’s a press conference,” she said.

This is the same Ramona Attard who spent the last few months before the 2013 general election following Prime Minister Gonzi and his ministers around with a cameraman, jamming her microphone into their faces even as they tried to get into their cars.

Yes, the very same Ramona Attard who, that notorious night when the Labour Party sent a Nationalist MP – Franco Debono – onto the Xarabank set to debate on its behalf with deputy Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil, spent the best part of an hour shoving her face into Busuttil’s and asking, like a stuck record, “Are you afraid of Franco Debono?”

Oh, incidentally, have you noticed that she’s had hair extensions put in? These people are so, so Jersey Shore.

The new hair extensions which Ramona Attard, ex Labour Party TV newsroom reporter and current communications aide to the Prime Minister, has had put in.