Apart from recording my deep satisfaction that Farage's horrid UKIP will be getting only a couple of seats in Westminster, and that only if their odious toad of a leader wins his own seat, and my less deep satisfaction that the wrong Milliband proved that he was in fact the wrong Milliband, I think I'll largely ignore the UK election, unfolding as it is and pointing to a Tory victory as I write.

Which means that Premier Muscat's good buddy, Cameron, David of that ilk, will be the UK PM while our own Premier will preside over the EU just as insular elements of the Brits seek to scuttle away from it.

I wonder what that will mean for the EU and for us, given our connections with both.

Back down South, though, things are proceeding apace, with Premier Muscat's Labour Party spinning yarns and weaving webs frantically, seducing the terminally bewildered and bamboozling the blogosphere with "yes, we do, but really no, we don't" revolving Greek tragi-comic masks clearly having been adopted as Labour's uniform.

Has the Government signed an agreement with De Paul University to run a shiny new university in the South, or has it not?

Do we see a genuine smile on the fact of our Ministers, or should we be looking at the scowl on the other side of the mask-on-a-stick, as the less shallow amongst them realise that we're starting to see through the hype?

De Paul University, by many and credible accounts, have not, repeat not, undertaken to run any university whatsoever, they have not signed any agreements with Premier Muscat's government and they are not going to lend their name to the new university.

The Government seems then to have signed up with property developers to create what some have told me is a degree factory, of the type that you can buy without the bothersomeness of having to do some studying, though you might be able to fulfil some of the "academic" requirements by having a few months' holiday here. 

Hopefully, this is not the case. Even more, infinitely more, important, is the hope that if it is the case that the new university is not exactly the acme of academic endeavour, its reputation will not smear our real, and respected, University. It would be an expensive price to pay if our real degrees are polluted by geographic proximity to anything dodgy, just so that Premier Muscat can beam patronisingly from on high while telling us what he wants us to believe he's done, rather than what's really been done.

This is pretty much par for the course, of course. We get a Super-Envoy to China foisted upon our wage-bill, only to find that Mrs Konrad Sai"gone" Mizzi has distinguished herself by doing as much for Sino-Maltese relations (that we know of, anyway) as what's 'is name has done to promote rock'n'roll and find rehearsal spaces, though Oor Willie was a sight cheaper than Sai"gone".

We're told that we're only perceiving traffic and public transport as being a disaster, along with the rest of the infrastructure, while buses go up in flames, the roads rattle our teeth out of our heads and there's more jam on the roads than within the sticky buns that have been handed out to Premier Muscat's cheer-leaders with such gay abandon.

In the meantime, the dearth of screeching from the now less respected environmentalists (and I emphatically include Din l-Art Helwa honourably out of that descriptor) leads the less perceptive down the garden path to concluding that Premier Muscat holds the environment close to his heart, while the reality is that he seems to take Singapore as his inspiration.

Luckily, the Opposition and its leader seem to be gaining traction in their mission to stop the masks from spinning and exposing the true face of Premier Muscat's style of expectation management.

Even if Premier Muscat's minions and trolls keep trying to convince us otherwise.

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