A few days ago, (Wake-Up-And-Smell-The-Cafe') Premier Muscat, referring to the Panama Papers fall-out, a fall-out in which a Malta top Minister was embroiled, said he was listening to the people.

Another top Minister (worlds apart from the one exposed as a member of the Panama Papers Club), Prof Scicluna, on Tuesday evening in Parliament, in his most elegant way, seemed to throw down the gauntlet to (Wake-Up-And-Smell-The-Cafe')Premier Muscat.

Some 24 hours earlier, during a parliamentary group meeting, reports emerged that a number of Labour MPs made it plain that they wanted Konrad to go.

The choice he had was to jump or be pushed.

No, (Wake-Up-And-Smell-The-Cafe')Premier Muscat. You are not listening to the people.

You still have the uproar ringing in your ears of the near-mutiny you faced in Monday's Cabinet meeting.

You've made the biggest mistake of your political career: you've managed, despite all the odds stacked in your favour, to antagonize Dr George Vella, a man who has given his life to the Party.

For you to think that this man, who, in all his years of association with the Party, has never had a hint of an accusation of sleaze levelled against him, for you think that this man would stand by and let a recent upstart lead the Party to wrack and ruin, you must truly be blinded by your self-grandeur.

Did you really expect that the Deputy Prime Minister of the squeakiest-clean Government Malta has ever had under Dr Alfred Sant, would ever let you off the hook for what you've been doing over these past three years?

Listen to him, Joey. He's already said this is his last stint in politics. He's no longer a sycophant, the likes of which you have layered yourself with.

He's not going to stand on the sidelines in his retirement, kicking himself every waking moment of his day, for not trying to salvage what he could of the fragments of a once-glorious party that has been brought to such depths of disrepute by a band of upstarts.

The Unholy Trinity of The Ultimate Upstarts.

If there's one thing many will credit you for, it is your survival instinct. Against all odds perhaps.

You don't listen to Dr Vella, and your head's on the block.

You know that more than most of us.

That is why you've just spoken like this.

No, (Wake-Up-And-Smell-The-Cafe')Premier Muscat, you are not listening to the people.

You are listening to the tinnitus that resulted from that Cabinet meeting.

It's 00.23 Friday.  Sweet dreams......of grandeur, Joey.

Come now, don't let a village Doctor like George Vella be the cause of sleepless nights.

 

Joseph Genovese