Muscat's plagiarised whinge of "Oligarchy" was given the lie by his warm-up act yesterday.
Dr Robert Abela, who is not contesting the elections within Muscat's ranks, is the son of H.E. The President and a practising lawyer, whose firm holds the account of MEPA, reputed to be a lucrative one. I point these facts out not in denigration of Dr Abela but merely as a single, but one of many, instance of many where people of Muscat's political persuasion find themselves in positions about which they certainly shouldn't grumble.
They certainly shouldn't grumble about cliques and circles of friends, because they do so, in effect, while looking at the mirror.
Another instance I could mention is that of the just-recently ubiquitous Dr Konrad Mizzi. This learned young chap, who proves his erudition by slipping high-sounding gobbets of jargon in English into his spiel, generally when he is citing volumes of what he fondly believes are facts in support of his arguments.
Or when he is calling people "rude" in the manner of that particularly obnoxious young female in Richmal Compton's "William" series.
Mizzi, I'm told, has held high management positions in, amongst others, Enemalta and Malta Enterprise, and in none of which, I am told again, was he favoured or disfavoured because of his political leanings.
He wasn't in charge of high finance, energy policy, power generation or anything like that, being an IT chap, so what he's doing telling us what we should be doing in those areas is a bit nebulous, but that's not my point.
In fact, it is my experience that people who are good at what they do get on in this country. Check out many, many of Muscat's companions and you'll see what I mean. It's those who didn't make it, or who were asked to step aside, for whatever reason, who whine about others getting on in life and who turn on their friends.
This is a particularly sorry aspect of the human condition, one which afflicts the bitter, the unfit and those who feel that their superhuman skills have been passed over in favour of those less fitting. I needn't remind you of our recent history, need I? Or point out certain individuals who have suddenly found themselves able to fawn all over Muscat?
A poser for you to end: what is it with Muscat, he's unable to stick to any relationship? I'm not talking about his personal life, which interests me not one iota, it's his political allegiances that perplex me.
He's dumped a Deputy Leader, unceremoniously, he's hidden many former prize pit-bulls from public sight, his other Deputy Leader is conspicuous by his silence (at least since his rather less than stellar performance against Busuttil) his new Deputy Leader has gone below the horizon, perhaps for much the same reason, and even that Mizzi bloke has suddenly not become that around which television revolves.