Utterly shameless

To think I know so many people who were actually proud to vote Labour, seeing it as an act of brave rebellion and defiance against the vile corruption and abuse perpetrated by that evil liar Lawrence Gonzi and his band of criminal incompetents.

It’s not the government that should be lined up and shot. It’s those who, despite all their advantages and social privileges and high IQ and education, couldn’t see this mess coming.

It was so damned obvious that they were only in it for themselves, and that electoral victory was like the starting-pistol for a mad race to the trough.

If it were only greed, it wouldn’t be half as bad. What is truly awful is that their greed drives them to twist and deform all the norms of common decency, all the boundaries, systems and protocols.

This is an offence to all good citizens, whatever and however they vote. It is an even greater offence, a destabilising one, to all those public servants who work hard and are truly gifted but who then see somebody like Cyrus Engerer, who is beyond unfit for purpose, catapulted in over their heads to special privileges and a salary grade in a job specially created for him because it did not exist before, because he has something on the prime minister and the prime minister is afraid of him.

There is no other explanation. This is not a reward. The Labour Party has had the backing of very many who worked hard to bring it to power. They did far more than Engerer and they have not been given these great privileges.

The prime minister is the most dreadfully cynical liar and conniver. All that fuss last year, all that drama about making Engerer pull out of the European Parliament electoral race because of his criminal conviction confirmed on appeal. And you knew, you just knew, that the only way he fixed that was by striking a deal with him for something far better than a seat in the European Parliament.

The position of prime minister’s special envoy for the European Union, at ambassadorial grade, was created especially for Cyrus Engerer last year, when he saved the Labour Party a lot of embarrassment by pulling out of the electoral race.

Taghna Lkoll – if I had voted for them, I would by now be furious and on the rampage.