Anyone with half a brain is morally convinced that Anglu Farrugia was knifed in the back and dumped not because of his inane remarks about that court case he says he won and the Magistrate who decided it. After all, his former Leader was nodding indulgently while he was making them and Labour's Star Candidate Manwel Mallia didn't seem too perturbed about the remarks either, a few days after they were made.
In fact, it took Muscat four or more days to shaft Farrugia, which tends to make it pretty darn obvious that there were other wheels rotating merrily in Muscat's head when he chucked Farrugia out of the boat.
This makes it amply clear, it is respectfully submitted, Your Honour, that Muscat's red card to Farrugia wasn't evidence of the former's strength of character in the face of an unacceptable remark by the latter, but merely a cynical jettisoning of someone who was perceived to have become a liability because he was quite simply not up to the task.
The fortunate happenstance that this combined neatly with an impelling need to have someone on board to counter the Busuttil effect in the polls made the whole thing even more pleasingly serendipitous from Labour's point of...
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