Joseph Muscat is about to present a Budget to the nation that is, pretty much, the PN's work.

To be fair, he's not trying to pass it off as his own, which leads me to have this nagging suspicion that this is rather a convenient ploy - if it goes belly-up, Heaven forfend, he can pull a "don't blame me, blame the PN" dodge.

There are other advantages - the nation isn't waiting with trepidation to see if we're going to get a Budget tal-Kappar or the creation of work battalions or a wage freeze or some other lunatic manifestation of Mintoffian economics.

It would be really nice if the governance of the nation could be carried on without any jolts, but the Speech from the Throne, written by someone in Government and read, willy-nilly, by the President, didn't augur well, laden as it was with divisive slogans and triumphalist undertones.

You can discern the latter in many of the comments that follow pieces such as this, where the expressed opinion, if in any way not fawning on Muscat, is classified as 'a repulsive attempt to thwart the will of the people'.

The leitmotif of Labour's public position, for all the empty chat about different opinions being respected, is quite clear: we won, we won with a great thumping majority and now you have to shut up, because otherwise you will be an undemocratic bigot who obviously doesn't respect the will of the people.

And to this all I can say is, bring it on, "the people" didn't vote for a new Constitution or anything like that, so if anyone thinks they can ram some tomfoolery down our throats, they have another thing coming.

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