If you posted an erotic photo of yourself on Facebook, would you expect the Minister for Gambling to ‘like’ it?

But he did. We live on an island where it is considered entirely normal for 1. otherwise nice young ladies to post suggestively erotic photographs of themselves on Facebook for disgusting old men to perv over, and 2. for a disgusting old man who is a minister of the government to click ‘Like’ beneath it and have his name show up – you know, come se niente fosse.

‘Weird’ doesn’t even begin to describe this place.

Then the cabinet minister (for Gambling) moves from perving over the (sadly, manufactured) breasts of a young lady who is not his wife, to banging on about the Madonna and the feast of Stella Maris, which has only ever been celebrated, incidentally, by the wrong sort of members of that parish. The others never gave a damn and barely knew it was happening.

But as the general election draws near, Sleazy Manuel has to cover all bases.