It was recommended that I should track down some video of that Debono person and his antics outside the Xarabank studio. I did just that, and in order not to be influenced by what some might think are purposely chosen videos, I looked at one put up by that paragon of journalistic virtues, One News.

It was, not to put too fine a point on it, pathetic. Had Debono been an animal goaded into pacing up and down in his cage for the amusement of the plebs, animal rights groups would have been up in arms and quite rightly so.

If Debono had been someone with some sort of disability that makes him act erratically, there would have been an almighty, and justified, uproar about his being broadcast in that state.

But Debono does not suffer from any disability of which we are aware. Debono is not a dumb animal. He acts the way he acts, we therefore have to assume, because he gives rational and reasoned consideration to the choices before him.

We have to conclude that he chooses, rationally and consciously, to act like an arrogant twerp who thinks that his arguments carry weight because he repeats (and repeats and repeats) them in a high-pitched voice and struts up and down while he does it, gulping water all the while like it was going out of fashion.

Debono clearly thinks he is the bee's knees, the non plus ultra of political thought, and that this therefore gives him the right to shout and pout and preen and screech and preach and generally rant obsessively, repeating himself over and over and over and loudly.

In strict truth, as the Prime Minister rightly pointed out, Debono is now, properly speaking, irrelevant. His only asset, his vote in the House, is worthless. His opinion now counts only as much as the next man's. The fact is, though, he has a certain residual value, but only for mentalities such as those that pervade the Labour Party. Labour has eviscerated content and turned politics into a series of cheap tricks and opportunistic stunts, leavened with a liberal dose of inaccuracy and downright lies from many of its spokespersons, when they can actually finish a sentence and not contradict themselves before doing so.

And they have done this partly by means of a shameless and ruthless exploitation of Debono's inherent vulnerability, his dependence on being the centre of attention and his inability to accept that his time has passed, that he has rendered himself irrelevant.

It says very much about Labour, and none of it nice, that they clearly think that the sight of Debono behaving like a boorish thug in a suit and tie is something that will attract the type of voter they will have to attract of they want to win. That this behaviour goes down well with a certain mentality is a given, but that is not Labour's target market.

The fact that they clearly fail to grasp this (and much else besides) should make choices starkly clear, come March 9th.