The question was going to be, is anyone thinking things through, but quite apart from the fact that it was too long as a title, the question really is "is anyone thinking?", as in is anyone thinking, at all?

I mean, the PM sits at his first Commonwealth Leaders' Conference, hears that there's a bit of a problem about who will host the next one and sticks his hand in the air, rather in the fashion of the class nerd wanting to answer every question, and volunteers us, to the tune of megabucks and equal inconvenience.

Did he even think about the diplomatic ramifications of jumping in within the context of the reason why there was a problem about hosting the conference in the first place? Did he even think that it might be seemly to hold back, given that he had been so vociferous in his criticism of our hosting it last time it was held here?

Apparently not.

And then it came to appointing someone to head up the Task Force that will organise the conference: did anyone bother to have a little spot of cogitation about the sort of person one needs for this little task? Quite plainly not, because the person appointed seems to have one paramount qualification: she's a bosom buddy of the PM and his family. Oh, and she's runs some sort of commercial concern that employs a few people, though it's not exactly Apple Inc.

There's a consolation, I suppose, in that Ms Muscat's outfit seems to be a bit more solid than the one chosen by that Dalli person to set up a chunk of Mater Dei's IT system. Dalli seems to have not bothered to think this one through either, because how do you explain that he apparently doesn't give much of a monkey's that people are going to look at this tiny company and notice that the only apparent qualification it has is that one of Dalli's buddies owns it?

Did the Parliamentary Secretary for Culture, Dr Jose' Herrera, excuse me while I have a quiet giggle, think even for a couple of seconds before removing the MCCA CEO from her post, a post she filled with distinction? The extent to which Herrera thought about this, if at all, was to make angels-on-heads-of-pins arguments about the nature of her contract, arguments which, I suspect, are as well founded as his own appointment.

And he certainly didn't think the thing down to its basic question: the nature of Ms Galea's contract is irrelevant to the main point. It is the fact that she was removed at all, demonstrating that this Government has no respect for quality or merit, that is vital.

Dulcis in fundo, the biggest, most monumental, ginormoussest piece of incontrovertible evidence that the lights are on but no-one's home in this Government is the passport pimping scheme dreamt up by these geniusses. No sooner had the ink dried on the President's assent to this shameful Act that Muscat started having second thoughts and trying to squirm out from under the deluge of contempt that poured down on him.

Labour's little weasels can do their damndest, but it's become clear that no-one is bothering to think about the way this country is heading.