The Labour Party, currently governing the country, if that's what you can call not sticking to promises, not starting anything new, barely keeping the economy afloat and making sure your boys and girls get their plums, recently brought in Alastair Campbell to give itself a bit of reflected glory.

You know, much in the same way it's been dazzling everyone with a couple of rock'n'roll parties to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Independence, the tenth anniversary of joining the EU and then two other wholly artificial anniversaries of wholly unimportant events, it rolled out someone who is quite a draw among people who are interested in these things.

Meanwhile, the great and good of Taghna Lkoll have been having such great fun posing for the cameras while they take their place at the front row of such works of artistic awesomeness like Gensna Mark II, shiny suits and retro hair-dos and all. Superannuated rockers and wannabe axemen have found their place in the sun in the glorification of Joseph and Michelle's Camelot, playing cover versions of the songs of their long-gone youth and rocking with Rockestra.

While the Labour Party en masse - not a pretty sight at the best of times - has been celebrating its leader's phenomenal success at convincing the electorate to trust him to live up to at least one of his pre-election promises (don't hold your breath) the Nationalist Party has begun the long slog towards renewing itself.

One of its initiatives is the "Big Ideas Conference", whatever that means.

Truth be told, these things have to be done, even if there are many who, like me, are allergic to this sort of thing and would rather spend Saturday morning washing the car than attending a political conference.

But that's just me.

At this conference, I read from Another Area of the Blogosphere, that the PN, for some weird and wonderful reason known only to those who decide these things, invited none other than that Has Been (or is it Never Was?) Godfrey Grima, a man whose fascination with his own media-savviness is matched only by the scant respect shown towards him by Labour's Star Turn of a couple of weeks ago, the aforementioned Alastair Campbell, on Times Talk.

I mean seriously, as part of its effort to renew itself, the PN calls on Godfrey Grima, whose media utterances over the last 10 years or so have oozed contempt for the PN and dripped with paternalistic scorn for GonziPN?

It occurs to me that if he didn't invent that particular pejorative (pejorative only insofar as it seen from the anti-PN side of the spectrum, of course) I'm pretty sure he wishes he had done.

If that's the way the PN intends to do a phoenix, by having this sort of dinosaur telling it where it went wrong, it's doomed to keep going wrong.

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