Far be it from me to get in between two PN stalwarts having a slanging match in a PN stronghold such as Sliema. If I did, I'd be tempted to ask Mr Robert Arrigo precisely where he gets off, as a member of the Government, slagging off a colleague in public.

I'd be asking when people are going to take the late George Bonello Dupuis' words to heart, once and for all. In virtually his last public comment, this supreme gentleman made it very clear that there are virtues that go beyond trying to look after Number One all the time, virtues such as loyalty, for instance.

Be that as it may be, the spat to which I'm referring is not one about something fundamental, simply about the pedestrianisation of a blinking shopping street in Sliema, which led to re-routing the buses, to a few parking spaces being lost (like parking is a fundamental human right or something) and to various moans and gripes.

What a shower, honestly. The world is teetering on the edge of economic and political disaster and the denizens of Sliema are concerned because of Bizazza Street.

And just because a Minister actually did something, rather than sitting back and letting every vested interest under the sun pull and push him all over the place, one of his colleagues thought it would be appropriate to call him a bulldozer.

Now, Minister Pullicino has many virtues and just as many vices, since he's as human as the rest of us, and being a bulldozer is something to which he might be quite suited, but this constant bitching and moaning because something is done, with a reciprocal amount when something isn't, is really getting beyond a joke.