Alexander Borg Olivier sees a fellow spirit in Adrian Delia

Alexander Borg Olivier says that he supports Adrian Delia, who laundered money through a bank account in Jersey for a Maltese-run prostitution racket in Jersey, because “he is the only candidate with the personality, intelligence and strength to bring back the PN to being a winning party”.

I think rather that the real reason Alexander Borg Olivier roots for Adrian Delia is that he sees in him a fellow spirit. Read about the James Wasserstrom case here. There’s more in Le Figaro if you read French. And there’s more here and again here too.

Mr Borg Olivier repeatedly tells those who challenge him about his poor judgement to stop bringing his father, the late George Borg Olivier, into it. This is fatuous of him. The only reason he comments, and believes his comments to have any weight or bearing on reality, is precisely because of his father.

Mr Borg Olivier himself has played as big a part in the Nationalist Party as has his poor choice Adrian Delia – in other words, not at all. Mr Borg Olivier left Malta permanently before his father lost the 1971, went to New York and stayed there and elsewhere for decades, having obtained a much-sought-after position in an international organisation when his father was Prime Minister. Not only wasn’t he involved in the Nationalist Party, but he wasn’t even involved in the country.

As I said, a fellow spirit to Adrian Delia, and in more ways than one. Oh and incidentally, will everybody please stop this ridiculous talk of “my party” and “our party”. The only person formally entitled to say the words “my party” are the party leader, just as the only person formally entitled to say the words “my government” is the prime minister.

It’s not a football team. The party for which you vote is not your party. It’s the party for which you vote, the one you support. It’s bad enough hearing semi-literate twits, thugs and bored housewives saying “my party” and “our party” (and the same in Maltese). But people like Alexander Borg Olivier, who grew up speaking idiomatic English, should know better. This refers to other posts in which he has used those words. His party – and then he saw out its worst years, when we were literally fighting in the streets and I was in a police lock-up – living in comfort in New York.

After reading those articles above, I now have a clearer idea as to why Mr Borg Olivier doesn’t think it necessary for the Nationalist Party leader to be a man of integrity. He mentions “personality, intelligence and strength” as the desirable qualities of a leader, but fails to mention honesty, integrity and a hard line against corruption. Clearly, they were not desirable in Kosovo.