Is there anyone responsible for Muscat's image within the ranks of his party?

I'm not talking about someone to pretty him up or hide his manly paunch (and can I borrow whoever it is, for obvious reasons?) because here he seems to be well served, at least to a degree.

No, it's to the person or persons unknown who are supposed to honing Labour's image as a whole that I am referring. If there is such a body of persons, they should be taken out and shot.

Tedious as it might sound, given the paucity of a sense of humour (or grasp of idiomatic English) on the part of the Lil'Elves and Peculiar Pundits, I have to point that I'm only suggesting that they should be figuratively shot, not actually.

This fate should befall them because in bussing up a couple of loads of Labour Rent-a-Crowders, these geniuses served to evoke for me the memory of years gone by, when busloads of Labour thugs would visit Tal-Qroqq and amuse themselves by beating the living what's it out of anyone who met their disapproval, namely us students.

The worthies who trooped up to Tal-Qroqq this time around were not, thankfully, armed and dangerous and all they seem to have done was pack Sir Temi Zammit Hall (to the disadvantage of genuine students who wanted to attend the Leaders' Debate) and make approving noises whenever Joseph Muscat said something.

From what I'm told, they were well organised and marshalled, and apart from being noisy (and not students) didn't intimidate anyone, except for a few EU flags, reportedly. But here's the rub: university students are not, generally speaking, well organised and they don't normally have stewards going around with hi-tech comms devices to keep things in order.

Nor are they prone to being particularly appreciative of outsiders who try to impose themselves on the proceedings. There's such a thing as being too slick, but Muscat and his boys and girls don't seem to twig this.