A backbencher’s blog: a Labour of love... part two

Dear friends,

It isn’t only the head of the MCESD that has walked from the darkness of the political right into the righteous glow of the political left

Yes it’s me again, your friendly neighbourhood backbencher, with yet more pearls of wisdom from the horse’s mouth of our all-new government.

And for a start, what about our charismatic and lovable leader’s decision to appoint that fine, upstanding party stalwart... whose name escapes me... to the post of Speaker from Parliament.

So while all the opposition media were crowing over this fine, upstanding party stalwart’s perceived demise as deputy leader... all the time our illustrious, charismatic and lovable leader was preparing him for an even more important and prestigious position. So stuff that up your jumpers, opposition.

What a brilliant and perceptive charismatic and lovable leader we have at the helm of our ship of State. Prosit! Say I – and prosit yet again.

And as a result of that sagacious and unifying appointment, it now transpires that far from being argued to a frizzled pulp in that infamous pre-election TV debate between the two deputy leaders... our new Speaker actually wiped the floor with the Opposition’s representative. Or so we are now being told – and who am I to dispute that fact?

Naturally, the Opposition is up in arms and whingeing about not being consulted about the appointment of the Speaker... another case of the pot calling the kettle blue, I feel.

And while we’re on the subject of Opposition whinges... what about all that fuss they made over our charismatic and lovable leader’s wise and inclusive decision to sack all senior civil servants – namely permanent secretaries – and replace them with those of a much more inclusive persuasion. OK, so they also happened to be leftish pinkish inclusive, but I think the operative word should be... inclusive.

I would have thought the opposition would have applauded this fresh sortie into the politics of unity. I mean, during the time that they ran the show – disastrously – I need hardly add – they appointed their own blue-eyed boys to these positions.

So, rather than leaving this one-sided klikka in place, our charismatic and lovable leader preferred to reach out to the forces of darkness that now reside in the opposition benches and replace all those divisive Nat-sympathisers with fair, neutral and inclusive patriots, who, I reiterate, also just happen to be from our side of the political spectrum.

Who would have thought that such a young man would have had such a wise head on his shoulders? Indeed, who could have imagined that underneath our charismatic and lovable leader’s full head of skin nestled a brain so mature and pro-active. We are so, so fortunate to be led and guided by one possessed of so much guile and chutzpah; he, bless him, outflanks and outwits his enemies on all sides.

And now I see they are even trying to make waves about who our charismatic and lovable leader chooses to head up such all-encompassing bodies as the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development.

So what if he did used to be a so-called diehard Nat? They should have looked after him better.

It’s not our fault if he eventually saw the light... glowing red atop the każin. For as our charismatic and lovable leader is often heard to utter: “Hearest me now, for I am the way, the truth and the night”... or something.

And of course, it isn’t only the head of the MCESD that has walked from the darkness of the political right into the righteous glow of the political left. Oh no, we welcome all-comers, even the likes of Kev and Ken... and happy we are to see them all.

May their rewards be bountiful... especially those of Ken... the teatru needs him... or so he keeps telling us.

And so I end this blog-post much cheered. We have won and will continue to win hearts and minds. We are the future, my friends and – as Joan Baez almost once sang: “We have overcome.” And as we always say: “Stuff you, it’s payback time. Might is right.”

Comments:

Left field, at 2.10am, writes:

More apposite comments from Malta’s premier backbencher

(Was that OK, not too effusive, I hope... just like you told me?)

Bormla blonde, at 4.25am, writes:

The esoteric substance of the argument may well be flawed, but the overall veracity of the hypothesis is nonetheless conceptually valid.