Il-vera Laburist baqa, Madonna. Ma fieq qatt. I’m guessing he told nobody that he originally came back to Malta in the 1970s as a strike-breaker for Mintoff.

He ratchets up debts of 12 million euros, and his wife keeps smiling at him and telling him he’s right. He announces that he is going to stand for the PN leadership election at the age of 73 and with debts of at least 12 million euros, and his wife and sister tell him “Go for it, Frank! You’re great! Of course you have a great chance and you’re the right person for the job!”

Shouldn’t you, as his sister, have told him: “Imma int qed thoss rasek, Frank?” Ma tarax – instead you allow him to think that he’s right.

If this was the pattern in your household when you were growing up, it really is no surprise that your brother turned out to be a complete narcissist who is literally unbalanced in his belief that he is always right.

He is a 73-year-old man with debts that would have others throwing themselves off a bridge, but he just doesn’t care. Because he’s right. The debts are not his fault. He’s going to live forever. He has the magic answer to everything. And his wife can carry on working to support him.

The parallels with Franco Debono (who has a mobile that rings when it is switched off) and with Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando (with his mysteriously spiked drinks) could not be more accurate.

Also, why is it so common in Malta, that people speak of themselves in the third person? I am only aware of one foreign politician, Silvio Berlusconi, who had the habit of speaking of himself in the third person.