Shame on the government and the government’s party for trying to attack the credibility of one of its critics by collecting a dossier of “facts” about that person’s private life and trying to pass it on to the public through the media.

Shame on them for “not noticing” that the “facts” they presented as facts related to matters some 30 years stale and have nothing to do with the person’s actual statements.

It was only regimes who acted like that – fascist and communist – so we can only conclude we are living in a regime, and the air we breathe is fin du regime air.

And shame on the government for not only not noticing the faux pas it made, but to keep on insisting it is in the right and not in the wrong.

And this government then expects us to believe it when it rises against Alfred Sant’s trait of personifying an issue and making all kinds of claims against government ministers when he should have kept the argument on the level of principles, when there is so much to be said and it is not being said.