The latest refrain from Joseph Muscat’s party, well, one of the latest, anyway, is that they will continue to be positive and leave the character assassination and mud-slinging for others.
Of course, as soon as the warm breath that wafted out of the talking head that spewed this out dissipated in the cold air of reality, they were at it, chucking the stuff about as if it were going out of fashion.
Never do what Labour do, do what they say, keeping an eye out for their hitmen, metaphorically speaking, while you’re at it. Even the least blessed with intelligence among us knows why Muscat wants what he calls mud-slinging to stop: there’s too much going around that is sticking to his party and, consequently, to his prospects of skipping up the steps to Castille, for all that he can put his hand on his heart and say he’s done nothing of which to be ashamed.
Take the news, as opposed to mud-slinging, that’s going around about the financial shenanigans surrounding that old black gold: the vast majority of people who are having charges preferred against them can hardly be called died-in-the-wool Nationalists.
To be fair, which is never a position taken by Labour’s mouthpieces, we are...
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