BEST OF BEST FRIENDS AGAIN?

"After all, Government signed ACTA behind the people's backs", or words to that effect, was a comment made by Victor Laiviera below the story about Joseph Muscat's shameful cuddling with the North Korean Ambassador.

That, friends, is how Labour's Puny Elves are trying to weasel their Supreme Leader out of this one, by making stupefyingly inane comparisons between the Government backing, to the extent it is even backing it, a commercial treaty and our aspirant Prime Minister telling one of the few Stalinist dictatorships left in the world that he wanted to "work hard to expand the friendly relations between the Malta Labour Party and the Workers' Party of Korea and between Malta and the DPRK in the political, economic, cultural and other fields."

Muscat also seems to have muttered things about the right to fire rockets being a reflection of national sovereignty, apparently ignorant of the fact that the civilised world has not exactly fallen over itself to congratulate North Korea on its outstanding feats of rocket-science. Pullicino Orlando was conspicuous in his lack of haste to get on FaceBook to condemn Muscat, maybe because he thinks it would sound racist and bigoted to comment about another country. Or maybe he'll propose a Private Member's Motion. Virtually everyone else put their hands to their mouths in horror, however.

Muscat fully expects to be Prime Minister in a few months time, to the extent that he said will be inviting his predecessor to open the City Gate Project. Given that the only clarification made by Labour was in the sense that a Labour spokesman conceded that Dr Muscat met the North Korean ambassador while in Malta to meet the country's authorities on a farewell visit and as is customary, expressed his condolences over the demise of a head of state though Labour registered its clear opposition to nuclear armaments while saying it respected the integrity of sovereign states, Muscat clearly sees nothing wrong with his remarks to the North Koreans.

Gee thanks, Labour spokesman, whoever you are: Labour is clearly opposed to nuclear armaments, is it?

Not so opposed to being buddies with Stalinist dictators, though, are you, and certainly not particularly worried about breaking ranks with the rest of the civilised world in condemning North Korea's lunatic leaders, dead or alive, are you?

What a prospect we have if Labour get elected: Yana Mintoff or Devere or Mainwearing or Bland or De Vere Bentinck or whatever she chooses to call herself floating around in a cloud of obfuscation to remind us of her father and his respect for democracy and everything else about which she has not enough facts, Joseph Muscat cuddling up to North Korea, no doubt with Sciberras Trigona and Reno Calleja beaming fondly down at him, Leo Brincat applauding wildly in the same way he applauded Mintoff, KMB and Sant and Karmenu Vella running the piggy-bank, to say nothing of all the other bright old things scrapping about who gets what favour and which Ministry.