Nobody is looking at the government

The sooner this Nationalist Party leadership election is over and done with, the better. Nobody is looking at the government, nobody can be bothered with reading stories about the government (let alone researching and writing them) because the main focus of interest now is the immediate one of who is going to take the oath as Opposition leader when parliament reopens in the autumn.

That the focus should be on the matter of the Opposition leader is entirely correct at present. The outcome of the September election will shape Malta’s future. The narrow concentration on how it will shape the future of the Nationalist Party is solely for those who lack imagination, even if there are frighteningly large hordes of them and most of them even went to school, some even to university. (I have decided to say imagination rather than intelligence, because people don’t seem to mind being called unimaginative, but they certainly seem to mind being called unintelligent, particularly when it is true).

The selection/election of the leader of the Nationalist Party is not an internal party matter, as some seek to make out, with all their no-grey-matter talk of “our party this” and “our party that”. It is a matter of crucial national importance.

That is exactly how I approach it. And that is why it is going to be my focus for now.