According to the Prime Minister and his little weasels, how stupid are we?

I ask because they obviously think we are completely moronic. There are those who have put it about that by voting Labour in to power, we as an electorate proved that we are rather dumb, but it wasn't to that sort of stupidity that I was referring and anyway, far be it from me to cast aspersions on the Great Unwashed, we're the salt of the earth and all that.

No, it is about that specific type of low IQ that is clearly a pre-requisite to falling for Muscat's recent call to the flag that I am talking. According to the punctual PM (he kept the Bishop of Gozo waiting almost an hour last Saturday, I'm told) the MEPs elected from the Nationalist side are betraying the country's interests by not defending the citizenship pimping scheme he dreamed up.

This heinous crime is being perpetrated by these MEPs in a very specific context.

Joseph Muscat, elected a few months ago, did not tell us, in his electoral manifesto, that he was planning to put our citizenship on a street corner, available to anyone with the requisite number of euro. He is now being faced with a veritable maelstrom of criticism, from virtually every corner of the civilised world, clearly by means of a media controlled by the PN.

Specifically, the European Parliament is going to discuss the prostitution of European citizenship in a few weeks and Muscat and the weasels are preparing for a showdown.

Prof. Edward Scicluna, by definition one of the best that Labour has (he's Minister of Finance, a Big Beast if ever there was one, for heaven's sake) has already given one of the worst, most inept, fumbling and bumbling defences of, admittedly, the indefensible, ever beheld in the Assembly, so can you imagine the appalling show people like Joseph Cuschieri or Marlene Mizzi, or whoever the others are, are going to put up? We've already seen evidence of their statespersonship in various areas of the media, and there's nothing there that gives any inkling that they're going to sway anyone towards smiling benevolently on their Master's Cunning Plan.

The debate is going to be one of the most cringe-making, embarrassing events for this country since - well, since ever.

Heretofore, we've had awkward moments as a nation, but mostly they've been kept en famille. Now thanks to the wonders of the 'Net, every dumb Ministerial remark ("there's no trouble in Kiev, just a few teenagers" said George Vella) is broadcast to the four winds almost before the Ministerial mouth has clammed shut and the world sees us as we really. When we had people like Lawrence Gonzi being our public face, we were spared having to blush and squirm, but now, well enough said.

So there you have it.

Muscat puts our citizenship up for sale in the manner of a Strait Street lady of the night.

Muscat gets all manner of brown stuff poured over his shiny pate for it, big boys all over the place tell him off about it every time he goes to some international gathering, his Ministers make things worse just by opening their mouths or waving their hands about.

Muscat's Little Weasels on the comments board are screeching anti-EU slogans as if they didn't know we're actually in the EU.

And then Muscat whines that it's the Nationalist MEPs who are not representing Malta's interests properly?

Come on, PM, just how stupid do you think we are, seriously?

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