Alfred Sant's political history

That Alfred Sant is at least troubled but more realistically ashamed of his and his party's political record is undisputable. Not only has he insisted, since 1996, on portraying himself as a new political proposal but he even tries to hide his term as president of the MLP in the 1980s, when he shared direct and indirect responsibility for those dramatic years.

At one point he even tried to change his image and that of his party by hiring the election-winning guru Phil Noble. Esther Schrader of the Los Angles Times had appropriately, in my opinion, described Mr Nobel as the person who "...has helped make over candidates from El Salvador to Malta".

Makeover is synonymous with changing the visual appearance of someone, not his mind, be it mediocre or splendid. Makeover is about making someone superficially appealing. To the undersigned, a politician "is", and thus cannot be made.

A politician is someone who has vision accompanied by deep and consistent intrinsic high order values that no makeover can bestow.

Dr Sant's latest effort to hide his political record is his suggestion that an analysis of his deceptive campaign on EU membership should be left to historians. That is like suggesting to someone who has lost all the fruits of his hard work because some financial advisor gave him the wrong investment advice to seek the same advice from the same advisor. Forget it!