Martin Scicluna has given us his views on Simon Busuttil’s style of leadership and has found a number of presumed shortcomings which he says will fail to propel him to Castille.

This is where Scicluna misses the whole point. Busuttil’s fresh style is intended to demonstrate the stark difference between his clean vision of leadership and Joseph Muscat’s arrogant and patronising style, which has landed the country in a number of scandals and, reportedly, corruption.

But then, perhaps Scicluna admires Muscat ‘warts and all’.

In his endeavour to put theman down Scicluna contradicts himself, for first he states that Busuttil is still surrounded toa large extent by the same tired, ineffectual and time-expired volcanoes, and then he states that Busuttil has picked an indifferent front bench, which paradoxically is made up of fresh faces, thus investing in the future.

We are only half way through this legislature and perhaps Scicluna should allow Busuttil to amplify his vision of Malta’s future, as he has promised to do, by laying before the people his plans for the country over the next decade and beyond.