It is well documented that when a certain type of regime is backed up against the wall, the gloves come off and the true colours of the desperate rulers are brought into stark contrast.  We've hit that spot, it seems, and Premier Joseph Muscat's gloves are well and truly off.  

 I'm not talking about his attack Chihuahua, that Bedingield fellow, whose performance on TimesTalk finally blew his cover, such as it was.  He's simply there to give aid and succour to Premier Muscat's willing minions, the ones who see evil in everything anyone does who doesn't toe the party line and his "attacks" have taken on the aspect of being savaged by the dead sheep popularised by Dennis Healey back in the late 1970s.    

I'd encourage you to click on his website to see for yourself, but I have more respect for your finer sensibilities than that, though it might not be such a bad idea if his click-count went up.  It would encourage him to continue doing harm to his Lord & Master's campaign to shore up the myth that even if you're not Lejber, you can work with them.

Labour are very familiar with property magnates and developers, of course, and Fenech Adami is not one of them, they know

That myth went the way of all fairy-tales a long, long time ago, except for a few choice specimens whose credibility was shot to hell and back about 10 minutes after Premier Muscat scuttled up the steps to Castille.

No, what I'm talking about here is the eagerness with which individuals (theoretically) higher up on the scale of relevance throw themselves into the fray in order to shore up the interests of their boss, in this instance, their trinity of bosses, Premier Muscat and his two side-kicks, K (Mizzi) and KK (Schembri)

Minister Chris Cardona, whose credentials to talk about property and the enjoyment thereof are perhaps not of ultimate sterling quality, had the gall to preside over a press conference, flanked by one of the less spectacular mayors of my home town, who has now determined that it is to his benefit to align himself with Premier Muscat (as is his unarguable right, of course) to propagate the lie that Beppe Fenech Adami is some sort of property magnate who buys a couple of rooms in the country and turns them into multi-million value palaces.

Labour are very familiar with property magnates and developers, of course, and Fenech Adami is not one of them, they know.

Fenech Adami has since characterised Cardona and Castaldi Paris as purveyors of lies, in fact liars, though of course this will not impress the terminally bewildered who think that everything that issues forth from the mouths of characters such as these is equivalent to Moses' tablets. The Labour-leaning media lapped up the lies, it need hardly be said, so that's (perhaps less than) 40 per cent of the population accounted for, but they don't really tip the balance.

The rest of you out there, I venture the thought, have seen through this bunch of clowns for what they are, desperate to hang on to power and willy-nilly spurred on to shore up the Gang of Three at Castille at all costs.    

Premier Muscat is in it up to his neck and Cardona and others like him have dragged themselves down into it by obeying their instructions. They attack, with others' lies and half-truths and insinuations and everything else they can come up with, anyone who dares oppose them.   Ask Ann Fenech, Mario de Marco, Simon Busuttil and anyone else who is in the cross-hairs.

Others, such as Edward Scicluna and Louis Grech, are (were?) thought to be honourable men who would not lend their good names to these cheap tactics.   They are rapidly approaching the point where they will be tarred by the same brush, and they have to be considering their positions.  

If they're not, more is rotten in the country than we deserve.

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