Some people hate the word politics but they hate politicians and their words even more. I never truly understood this because without politics we’d be a truly boring lot. Imagine us silly commentators just discussing the weather.

Now while nothing beats the weather to break a lull in conversation, unless Joseph Muscat starts dabbling in the ways of the sun, that topic will remain forever more just that—a boring, apolitical subject.

If we all turn politic and divest all talk of politics we would all be like we were on the Friday before we cast our MEP votes. The silence was, of course, broken all day and night on the blogosphere, so most of us got our fix of politics anyway. But the rest of the media just gave us electoral figures and discussed other inane subjects.

Malta is Malta and everything is laced with controversy and political heavy-handedness. Nothing is pure or simple.

Take billboards and the way they have invaded our country. Do we realise how horrid these pieces of silliness are, how they are everywhere? In every major road, in every locality. Hundreds, thousands of billboards.

They stop us from thinking properly and hinder open views.

This apolitical grunt led me to remember that, during the inanest of campaigns for the MEP elections, the party in power made use of illegal billboards.

Quite interestingly they were given quite a boost (do they need one?) by shelving the clearance of said billboards until after the election. Illegality, given a slight tinge of local colour. The Labour Party, which promised us so fervently that they would be the new shield of propriety, have quite nicely forgotten that, even if committed by those in authority, illegality is wrong. In fact wronger.

Life without politics is inevitably boring, as politicians never are. They promise the earth but they deliver more of the same hell they preach against.

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