Buzz words make the world go round and the heart grow fonder. Some actually make the brain pale into ignominy. But who cares what real meanings of words are? As long as we think we make sense it’s never nonsense. Well, enough with these riddles, let’s get down to business.

Business? Hold on, this government—god bless them all they are so good and smiley and all outdoing each other to not be paid—promised us meritocracy. How the critics fawned at the feet of that word’s utterer. Out with the clique. Off with their heads. Clear out Castille of its oligarchy and other bedevilled Gonzi demons. Ah, at last we breathe the spirit of meritocracy. True democracy is back in town—and off to the gallows with anyone mocking it.

The main merit one needs to have is not being a laburist. As if! Gone are those days of Mintoffian idiocy, crassness and socialist mantras of jobs for the reds. All you need to have done to sit on some important board or be a chairman is to have voiced an opinion before the election. Obviously as long as said opinion was rabidly, avidly and virulently anti-Gonzi. Not even anti-PN. After all the likes of Joseph Muscat sang the praises to the four winds of someone called Eddie Fenech Adami.

Oxford Dictionary alert:

Meritocracy. A word widely used in Maltese politics and widest usage post-Joseph Muscat’s (God bless His name) electoral victory. Main use when person was so deserving that he was first put on PL billboard then on important board to help change the country’s direction by keeping it where it is.