Austin Sammut's column this week referring, Marie Antoinette-like, to "the rabble" contained the usual Nationalist Party double standards.
He certainly did not use such snobbery when referring to the bile, vulgarity, hate mongering, swearing and more that has been posing as a blog in recent weeks. There the rabble is certainly present, both in the blogger's own rantings and in those of family and friends who seem to enjoy real rabble-rousing.
The language of one particular blogger is certainly more colourful than anything heard at the demonstration, where people were incidentally expressing frustration at the re-emergence of fuel and other poverty in Malta and not mere domestic frustration.
What does Dr Sammut expect them to do? Eat cake? On broken plates?