Desperate Muscat aide clutches at LovinMalta Facebook poll for reassurance

Things must be really desperate at Communications HQ at the Office of the Prime Minister, if his most important communications aide and travelling companion has resorted to clutching at a LovinMalta Facebook poll for reassurance of who believes whom.

Incidentally, that poll result stood at 72% ‘believes Daphne Caruana Galizia’ and 28% ‘believes Chris Cardona’ for the first thousand or so votes in the first few hours after it was published – and that’s the true indicator because it’s the first response.

I looked at it and said that by the next morning the government trolls would be at work driving their Facebook freaks to vote. After all, I’ve been in this business long enough to know how these things work. And sure enough.

If Glenn Bedingfield wants to know what people really think, he should have listened to almost every conversation taking place around Malta since the story broke last Monday night. Nobody believes Chris Cardona – Labour supporters are not saying they don’t believe me. They’re saying there’s nothing wrong with a minister going to a brothel on his own time.

In any case, this is not a matter of believing or not believing. I think some people are forgetting that there’s a man out there who was actually in the shower with them at the brothel and who followed them around carefully as they went about their activities there.

Yes, this man exists. So sorry about that, chaps. He’s a real person, and obviously, he is not me. I’m just the conduit.

Bedingfield should take a poll of Chris Cardona’s cabinet colleagues to see who they believe. Their absolute silence on the matter is telling. They may dislike me and disagree with my opinion of the Labour Party, but they know that I am not in the habit of going to brothels and sleazy nudie clubs, and they also know that Chris Cardona is. As does Bedingfield himself, which is why he is not sticking his neck out for Cardona and saying “As if Chris Cardona would ever do something like that.”

He knows he would do something like that, and his experience in the media, such as it was, tells him that yes, there really is another Maltese man who was there in the brothel looking at them.

Incidentally, I have had more details from him, including a description of Chris Cardona’s and Joe Gerada’s “lovely arses” (the lovely is ironic, just in case anybody takes it literally) – but I don’t think anybody particularly wants to read about that on a sunny and pleasant Sunday morning. So we’ll keep it for later.