I'm not usually one to comment about ongoing Court cases: not because I am under any illusion that some learned beak will take the blindest bit of notice of my meanderings, but because that's the way I am.

That habit will be broken now, so those of a sensitive disposition, such as a certain genre Labour supporters who have suddenly found themselves to be such fervent critics of anyone who doesn't match up to the high standards that their own heroes never matched up to in the bad old days, should look away now.

You know the ones I mean, they play to the "ladies who lunch" class of columnist, the ones who tend to bleat about how yet another (coincidentally Nationalist) councillor has been found to have issues with some aspect of the law.

They had a field day, said ladies, in summer, with the shenanigans that surrounded the Dimech case, for all that they are now going to have to re-assess their distaste for all things Nationalist, what with the allegations about drug habits and all that are coming out in Court.

For someone of my age, the sight and sound of certain well-known Labourites, the ones who back in the day turned the blindest of Nelsonian eyes to the rape of democracy perpetrated by Mintoff and his ilk, getting attacks of the vapours now is revolting and stomach-turning.

Where were they when there was real law breaking going on, I ask, without the slightest hope that anyone will even dare to answer?

I'm not going to comment on the Appeals Court judgement that requires the Police to prosecute Dr Chris Said. This is mainly because I know virtually zilch about this aspect of the law and at the time of writing, the judgement wasn't up on the 'Net, so I haven't read it. I suspect that the law might actually be an ass in this area, but I'll reserve comment for when I've had the opportunity to read up, if at all.

But I have to wonder out loud, as others have already, whether my impression that the law is an ass in this area isn't actually borne out by the facts.

From what I read, Dr Said appears to have testified about a decree delivered by the Court in a matrimonial case and said that it (the decree) was delivered in the evening, when it was actually delivered in the afternoon of the same day. Or vice-versa.

This doesn't seem to have affected the case that was under way in the slightest, of course, but this fact itself doesn't seem to have worried the complainant.

Be that as it may be, the Police are now required to prosecute Dr Said for perjury and being the honourable man that he is, he has tendered his resignation. The Prime Minister, also an honourable man, has made it pretty damn clear that he will wait and see what the Court decides on the merits of the matter before deciding on Dr Said's political future.

Super One, by all accounts (I don't listen or watch) and maltastar.com (I don't read it) were as sanctimonious about the matter as the people to whom I made reference above, preferring to let their audience think that this was something serious. Shame on them, but shame is not an emotion that people working on these media seem to have any inkling of, so let's leave it at that

Dr Joseph Muscat, presumably between bouts of recuperation from his sundry ailments, also saw fit to get all twee about the case, too, saying, astoundingly with a straight face, that he was worried about the way the PM had expressed support for Dr Said, because this could influence the judiciary.

Clearly, Muscat has little grasp of how politicians seek to influence the judiciary and if he goes to visit Mintoff in hospital (again) he might take the opportunity to ask him.

The problem for Muscat and his valiant defence of the rule of law (not a trait that Labour leaders, with the recent exception of Dr Sant, have had amongst their arsenal of political weapons) was that his smarmy pronunciation was preceded by statements of support for Said from quite a number of Labour commentators. Have a look at Daphne Caruana Galizia's blog and at the comments on timesofmalta.com for some of them and you'll see what I mean.

I'm not quite sure how Muscat is going to get himself out of this one: he's misjudged not only the national sentiment but also that of his own people.

But it's high time we had enough of all this: we've had three Nationalist politicians of varying rank resigning recently, one because he was charged with misappropriation when he let his daughter use his council's laptop, one because she deposited some piffling little amount collected from a Council function into an account (not hers) that was not fully in line with some pettifogging rule or other and now Dr Said for making a mistake of a couple of hours when testifying from memory on a matter that was absolutely irrelevant to anything.

Can you imagine what will happen if Labour, at least as currently led, get into power? We had a taste of it in 1971 when a man of equal honour to Dr Said, Dr Cachia Zammit, was prosecuted by Mintoff's henchmen. Thankfully, he was acquitted with flying colours, but it seems that the Labour leopard just won't change its spots.