I’m sure everyone in Malta has watched the famous video of Gordon Brown opening his mouth and managing to stick both feet in during his election campaign this week. A lot of people over here in the UK are saying that this was the point where he committed political suicide. I think however he managed to do that even before he became Prime Minister. The man is finished as Prime Minister that’s for sure. Unlike Dr Lawrence Gonzi, whom I consider to be an intellectual, I don’t rate Brown in the same way. I think he was the worst Chancellor we’ve ever had especially given his 1999 decision to sell off 400 tonnes of gold, half the country’s gold reserve at a time when the gold market was stagnant.
The point I’m making here is that the entire world knows that Brown is an idiot. Gonzi on the other hand appears to be a highly intelligent individual, with no such inclination to commit political suicide. Given that to be the case I can’t help but wonder why he and his party have not cut whatever ties they have with Daphne Caruana Galizia. Even watching this from another country I can see quite clearly what is happening in terms of the networking between certain Ministries and certain blogging journalists. Even more evident are the comments in the various papers and blogs as the readers turn away in disgust at what they are reading. What I’m trying to say is that Gonzi doesn’t have to commit political suicide because this woman is murdering any chance he has of being re-elected.
People just don’t want to be associated with a party whose supporters vent such hatred, attacking people in such a public and personal way through the press. Every day I’m reading comments to the effect, “I used to be a PN voter but these sort of tactics are so sickening I’m switching to Labour.” With friends like these who needs enemies?
I was also reminded of an interesting political fact from a Maltese friend who lives overseas. He has been studying politics since he was a teenager and unlike me has a great love for the subject. He agrees with me that Brown is not going to be re-elected and that after the election the UK Labour Party will be in opposition. He points out that every time in the past when the Labour Party in the UK were in opposition, Labour was in power in Malta. Watch this space.
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