The PL are having great fun, in the run-up to Thursday’s vote in the House, revving up their electoral machine, in the hope that this will persuade the electorate to elevate them to the power for which they are so palpably gagging.
They jeer at the Nationalists for trying to cling to power, but their Lou Bondi-wannabe, the Brother Grim(a) has to resort to jamming words down Franco Debono’s mouth to try to get him to say that if Gonzi does not resign, Debono will vote him out. Sad, when it comes to this, but I have to say I felt a smidgen (a mere smidgen) of sympathy for the Grim(a) One when I tuned in to his PL-love Fest on Monday – he looked as if he was about to erupt, trying to get a word in while Debono went on and on and on and on.
They screech and wail at the free (do you get this concept at all, PL?) blogosphere and media when we comment about their families and the PL’s past, but they have no compunction in parading the little dears when there’s an “aaw, cute” vote to be grabbed.
In parentheses, what’s with Joseph, apologising to his family? What the heck for, pray tell? Didn’t anyone tell him he sounded like some Tory twit caught by the (now happily defunct) News of the World bonking his secretary, about to resign “to spend more time with his family”? I know that’s not what he meant, but what in the name of Heaven were his media advisors thinking when they okayed his twenty-minutes of “me, me, me” last Sunday?
And what are we to make about theIR wheeling out the spectre of Mintoff through his loony-lefty daughter? Is it going to become fashionable to address Labour’s faithful in broken Maltese, to remind them of their colonial past, when they were servile to the Crown, with the resentment this brought to the country?
A sort of means to an end?
Frankly, a Mintoff offspring spewing lefty twaddle and talking about crooks and class hatred is something without which we can do happily, though it is nice to be able to remind people about Labour’s past without the MLP’s chorus-girls being able to shrill at me.
The cherry at the end of the sausage, it need hardly be said, is the PL’s sanctimonious posturing about the need for stability, while at the same time they’re doing everything they can to topple the Government. They avoid answering, even because no-one is asking, precisely why they think the government is unstable.
The fact is, a single government MP, for reasons of his own, such as they are, and because the system is what it is, has created a situation of political instability but fundamentally, and ironically, the country is stable. And that’s despite the propaganda and misdirections that the MLP’s groupies, amongst them Mintoff’s mildly eccentric daughter, keep driving down our throats.