Anyone with half a brain is morally convinced that Anglu Farrugia was knifed in the back and dumped not because of his inane remarks about that court case he says he won and the Magistrate who decided it. After all, his former Leader was nodding indulgently while he was making them and Labour's Star Candidate Manwel Mallia didn't seem too perturbed about the remarks either, a few days after they were made.
In fact, it took Muscat four or more days to shaft Farrugia, which tends to make it pretty darn obvious that there were other wheels rotating merrily in Muscat's head when he chucked Farrugia out of the boat.
This makes it amply clear, it is respectfully submitted, Your Honour, that Muscat's red card to Farrugia wasn't evidence of the former's strength of character in the face of an unacceptable remark by the latter, but merely a cynical jettisoning of someone who was perceived to have become a liability because he was quite simply not up to the task.
The fortunate happenstance that this combined neatly with an impelling need to have someone on board to counter the Busuttil effect in the polls made the whole thing even more pleasingly serendipitous from Labour's point of view.
Which makes me wonder why the other, at least so far, Deputy Leader thought it necessary, on national telly, to remark that that the Commission for the Administration of Justice was "investigating" (that's what the media understood, anyway) Farrugia's allegations.
It turns out that what the Commission was doing, if you read between the lines of its statement a couple of days ago, was asking Farrugia what he was on about, as in "you're shooting your mouth off why, precisely?", which when it comes from an advocate's regulator, is something the advocate should be worried about.
But was Toni Abela, who as I write is still the other Deputy Leader, trying to back up his Leader and strengthen the fiction that his ex-colleague was fired for shooting his mouth off about the specific case, or was he instead trying to make us believe there was substance to Farrugia's allegation, meaning that Muscat got rid of him for other reasons?
If it's the first option, then he really must think we're dumb. If it's the second option, are we to think that Abela was sticking up for Farrugia, albeit somewhat backhandedly?