The Labour Party on Sunday called on the Nationalists to support the "gay marriage" bill and not continue in their hidebound conservatism on the wrong side of history.

Flying in the face of the fact that a very significant portion of society is against the Bill and an even more significant portion is worried about the adoption provisions, in order to carry on suckering the less thoughtful into the myth that Labour = progressive, Muscat and his acolytes plough on regardless.

As I've said many times before, the idea of same sex union worries me not a jot and while I'd have been happier for there to have been some deeper study on the matter of same-sex adoption, on balance I'm not against it per se.

But this does not give the Labour Party the right to act in the smug and arrogant fashion it has chosen to adopt.

The only reason it's doing this is the reversal, inconsequential as it is in the greater scheme of things, that it will suffer in May. This looming threat, given sinews by the various idtiotic - not to say downright perverse - measures that have been adopted, measures that have even started to get hitherto cheer-leading columnists a bit, ever so slightly, annoyed with their erstwhile hero, is worrying Muscat more than somewhat.

I suggest you take a look at some of the Sunday columns, where it has been said, for instance, that Muscat is condoning law-breaking and corruption in the context of the smart meter scandal. Tut, tut, you say?

As has become the norm, that which would have caused the sky to fall in and everyone to flap around like headless chickens had it happened during a Nationalist government is now cause only for mild censure, but the fact remains that some evidence of disaffection is starting to show.

So Muscat, true to form turns to attack and finger-pointing, preferring to evoke the negative aspects of the Nationalists' past than to convince with positive arguments of his own.