When the first scandals of this Labour government began to emerge, like the Café Premier scandal, Joseph Muscat blamed the missteps on inexperience. Poor guy, he was still in the first episodes of Dancing with the Stars.

Since then other scandals, like the Gaffarena get-rich-quick scheme, show that Muscat’s government loves to tango with the corrupt and the greedy.

Ministers like Konrad Mizzi know they can waltz away from Question Time and responsibility for incompetence any time they want to.

Ian Borg, the Parliamentary Secretary, has shown us all he can speak like a pole dancer.

It was last Tuesday in Parliament, however, that Muscat and friends showed they are now in the mood to stage Staying Alive, with Muscat as Tony Manero.

Alas, as they say at the auditions for Pop Idol, you’ve tried hard but not this time.

With all the scandals popping up, sometimes several a day, Muscat must be livid. His back is to the wall. Don’t be surprised if a man of his style plays dirty. Given my role in shadowing (with Marthese Portelli) one of his biggest ministers – and biggest failures – to account, I knew that sooner or later Muscat and the gang would throw mud at me. It was just a matter of when.

On Tuesday, experienced observers of the Labour parliamentary group would have known something was up the moment the MPs took their seats. Some did not sit in their usual places. You see, they have fixed places because Muscat wants to make sure that they behave and that there is no bickering on who sits where. This time it was clear there was a different game plan.

The PQs began. Ian Borg stood up to answer one. To give him little time in which to embarrass himself again, Deborah Schembri (unusually sitting right behind Borg) immediately stood up to make a supplementary question. It was so totally planned out (and irrelevant) that she actually read it.

Konrad Mizzi had honoured us with his presence. He stood up to answer the next question. I asked a couple of suplementary questions on his decision to fire the former police inspector/body builder who had been boarded out in record time and immediately hired by Enemalta in highly suspicious circumstances.

Mizzi replied that such hiring practices were “not what we stand for”. Of course I could not resist asking if he would use the same yardstick to measure the performance and pay of his wife.

This is where the Prime Minister stood up. He had furious dilated eyes and a bullying tone, which we women recognise all too well in men who cannot bear to be put into a corner by a woman.

He insinuated that I, too, had once earned €13,000 a month when I worked for Super One TV.

He then went on to rant about how hard Mrs Mizzi worked and how her pay was justified by the results we will be seeing in the future. The debate that ensued between Joseph Muscat and Simon Busuttil focused totally on Sai Mizzi. Unfortunately PQ time is too short and I did not get the opportunity to have my say. Later that evening I clarified matters on my Facebook page.

Here is the unvarnished truth. There is a huge difference between Sai Mizzi and my professional services at Super One.

First, I did NOT earn €13,000 monthly, far from it.

Second, the money I earned from Super One TV was through a private business venture and not from public funds.

Third, anybody who wanted to contact me could do so very easily. Everybody knew where I was since I was on TV.

Fourth, at the time, both Joseph Muscat and I worked at Super One TV. I hosted a daily magazine programme while he was a journalist working hard, through his programmes, to keep Malta out of the EU. Perhaps he would like me to refresh his memory as to why and how I was fired from Super One TV.

However, I doubt he needs his memory refreshed. I think we all know he won’t repeat publicly what he said in Parliament, where he has immunity.

We have long figured out how Muscat plays when he’s in trouble. Now we also know that his repertoire includes pure inventions about individuals who cross him.

In Labour’s Got Talent, contestants win by dancing on the grave of accountability and ethics.