I met a friend lately—a switcher who is the only one I know who still raves about the new government—who told me I’m too biased against Joseph Muscat and his team. I’m truly sorry.

So I put hand on heart, asked myself if I am being fair. All I could hear was a list of things that this government promised and after less than a year has forgotten all about. I don’t mind a few problems—we all know and accept politicos will be politicos and once in power their smile turns into a grin, their handshake into arms combat and their sparkle loses its spark.

But all this government promised is way forgotten and the famous roadmap has slowly turned into a nightmare with more road rage than mapping involved.

Let me go back to said friend. He didn’t just accuse me of bias—which I know I suffer from. What sort of opinion would mine be if it’s not biased? Can I only comment about the doings of the politicians by saying I half-agree with every politician and half-agree with his opponent?

Trying to be unbiased is reminiscent of the biggest disappointment of Government appointees—the man at PBS who said that because of some piffle policy the Finance Minister’s débacle in the European Parliament was not newsworthy. A finance minister saying his government was mistaken in our passports-for-sale scam is not news? Then may I ask what is? Maybe something like the finance minister cutting the ribbon of a chic salon? Even if I keep as cool and unbiased as good old cucumbers, I’d have to say loons rule right now.

I also asked my switcher friend what he thinks of the citizenship brouhaha. He agreed it was a true and regal cock-up. But notwithstanding I am expected to say how good our government is. We have turned ourselves into the nation that cracked up the world like a live-in stand-up comedy and the only excuse my friend could come up with is that the men in power are still learning.

Oh I see. Oh I really see: just devise some harebrained scheme. This is splashed and denounced and derided all over the international media. This shakes our reputation at its solid foundations, then just admit that you should have consulted further. And please accept that we’re just a bunch of learners.

Thank God these people do not choose our surgeons and our pilots. Oh lord, do they?

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