Maltese people have an extremely limited vocabulary and can’t even answer simple questions put to them by an interviewer on camera or for a job application. So they’re obviously going to think that somebody like that is a ‘great orator’. They don’t realise he’s using Janet-and-John vocabulary and syntax.

‘Parola facile’ perhaps but not a great orator.

And what reason will Said give for pulling out? Have you thought that far?

Maltese people are so childish, I despair. For God’s sake frame things in context – this isn’t teenagers talking over a joint and some crisps.

Not really, I would wager that most of them will vote for him exactly because they want nepotism to work in their personal favour.

His 33 years of experience in politics need to be visualised with footage and the right kind of background music. Come on, give this man a helping hand. He was there for the party in the roughest of seas. Chris Said has chosen once again to keep on sailing in the storm. Leaders do not abandon ship.

Because one is in his 80s and unwell, and the other is no longer involved in politics either. Why do Maltese people always need a messiah to show them the way?

And this is because the Maltese population, including those eligible to vote in the leadership election, are ignorant, immoral (they live in a buble of faux-morality, where normal sex is taboo, perverted behaviour is acceptable, and serious corruption is fine as long as it is a means to an end) and just cannot see past their own petty selfish requirements.

Remember that Donald Trump lost the popular vote in the US Presidential Election. Americans aren’t quite as dumb as the Maltese.

Yes, because wheeling out Fenech Adami really worked during the 2013 election campaign. I think you are misunderstanding the nature of today’s situation.

It is the thought that has been nagging me. Why haven’t we heard anything from them?