Chris Fearne: The deputy prime minister’s arrogance is insufferable

No, Deputy Prime Minister, you remind us why you’re prepared to be Health Minister in the government of Malta while failing to ask why that government signed a shady deal for public hospital management with an untested new outfit called, pretentiously, Vitals GLOBAL Healthcare, when you haven’t even bothered to find out who the actual shareholders are behind that secret company registered in the British Virgin Islands, or why your government colleagues signed that deal in the first place. In your case, the answer is raw, unbridled power and ambition. In their case, it’s $$$$$$$$$$$$.

As for the rest of us, I think we are about to spend the next five years discovering that the Deputy Prime Minister is immeasurably cockier, more arrogant and narcissistic than his boss the Prime Minister, which is saying something. It is quite obvious to me why Dr Muscat pushed Edward Scicluna, the Finance Minister, in the party’s deputy leadership election which would also fill the deputy PM position, and hoped Chris Fearne would not make it.

At some point over the next couple of years, Dr Fearne is going to become dissatisfied with being merely the deputy PM and not the actual Prime Minister, and he has the sort of personality which will make him think nothing of seeing Dr Muscat off if it suits him. And what’s more, because his personality is far more powerful than Muscat’s – yes, it is, I’ve taken note – he will succeed.

That is, unless Joseph Muscat and Keith Schembri decide to eliminate him first (and I don’t mean that in the Mafia sense).