Joseph Muscat: the chicken in a tinfoil hat

This should have been the Prime Minister’s big moment to shine on television and eliminate his competitors. Instead he’s pulled out of the TVM pre-electoral debate and is sending that fat lout, his caretaker Tourism Minister EdZL, instead of him.

Yes, this is the very man who some people are still describing as a “great orator” and “wonderful public speaker” and “so good on television”. And now he’s pulled his tinfoil hat down tight around his eyes and ears and chickened out.

I’m guessing he doesn’t want to have to deal with contemptuous questions about his outrageous Putin conspiracy theory and his now-invisible chief of staff, the notorious money-launderer Keith Schembri.