The big question needs to be addressed: is the government paying Joe Cauchi?

We all know why Joe Cauchi has gone to the Labour Party – read, government – and helped it can Giovanna Debono on the basis of her husband’s dealings.

He is not politically motivated. He is from Gozo (sorry, chaps) and he wants his money. He’s going to get it any way he can.

So the key question must be asked here: has the government, the Labour Party or anybody or anything linked to them, paid Joe Cauchi of Gharb the money he wants? There is no Gozitan man of his kind who would be doing this unless he knew for a fact that he would be getting the money he believes he is owed.

Those sorts don’t do it for the eradication of corruption. We’re overlooking that he himself is involved in the corruption of which they speak, and that he was quite happy to profit from it. He is, in fact, trying to profit it from it still, by getting his money.

It is the Labour Party and the government – time to remind them they are separate things – which are politically motivated. They are making a meal of this for partisan reasons. That the government should be doing so is horrendous. Its role is to simply and discreetly allow the investigations to proceed and justice to take its course.

For a government to turn this into a political circus means only one thing: that it is using the instruments of the state for its own political ends, and that it is not justice or the eradication of corruption which interest it.

Well, we know that already, because while it screams about “Giovanna’s husband” and the contractor, it thinks nothing of signing many suspect mega-deals behind the public’s back, then landing them on the public in surprise announcements.