Just to remind you: Konrad Mizzi’s pensioner father was put on the public payroll too

In two and a half years of scandals, cronyism and corruption, our mental information bank is so overcrowded that we have already forgotten the details of the initial slew of corrupt appointments made by the incoming government in 2013.

I’ll bring them up periodically because the government wants us to forget them, and it would be irresponsible to collude in that.

So today I shall remind you that Konrad Mizzi’s father, Lawrence – a pensioner who spent his entire working life at Air Malta, having been one of the Mintoffian crony recruits when the airline started out in 1974 – was put on the public payroll in 2013 by the government of which his famous son forms part.

He is executive chairman of Industrial Projects and Services Ltd, which was set up in 2003 to ‘absorb’ workers who were made redundant when Malta Shipbuilding, the Malta Shipyards, Kalaxlokk Co. Ltd, the Malta Development Corporation, Metco and Sea Malta were shut down. Those workers were redeployed to government departments and local councils.

The Minister of Health and Energy (left) with his father, an ex Air Malta pensioner who was appointed executive chairman of a state corporation. Behind them on the wall: three fearless leaders, including one who was Lawrence Mizzi’s best mate at Air Malta