It's happening already

"In this past week I have met and learnt what Labour is planning and I really feel comfortable with it. My opinion is still that the Labour Party should discuss these plans with the public and disclose what its policies are." What an extraordinary statement by Cyrus Engerer, just a few hours after switching to Labour.

Joseph Muscat had declared on Xarabank that he has no intention of unfurling his plans in front of the country now. He will do so only in sufficient time before the election. To which Arnold Cassola had aptly retorted that the panel might as well go home and return at election time.
So what is Cyrus Engerer on about when he speaks of being "comfortable" with what Muscat is "planning". Did Muscat really take Engerer into his political confidence so quickly? The latter hasn't been in Labour long enough to sign his name next to the torca on his party membership card.
There can be only three possible explanations. Is Engerer lying? I have no evidence to suggest that he is. The second possibility is that he was fed the same vague rhetoric that Labour utters in public and he's mistaking it for a "plan". In which case, Labour has just welcomed a fool into it's fold. Again, I don't think that Engerer is a fool.
What I suspect is happening is what I predicted in yesterday's post. Cyrus Engerer, I wrote, will discover that in the Partit Laburista he is going to be an inhabitant of a gay political ghetto. And sure enough, he already knows that this might happen to him. That is why he is trying to convince himself that his new party is standing for things when it is clearly doing nothing of the sort.
It's a rather sad sight. Particularly given that this is the same man who had this to say only a forthnight ago. Click on this - Cyrus Engerer addressing the PN general council, June, 2011