So now we’re paying for government politicians’ children to be ferried about

A friend sent in this photograph of the official government car used by the Parliamentary Secretary for Local Government (was there ever a more pointless portfolio?), Stefan Buontempo, wearing its GM plates which are to be worn only when the minister/parliamentary secretary is on government business.

It was parked in a no stopping/no waiting zone right outside Tigne Point, last Saturday morning, a day when that place gets the heaviest traffic.

The parliamentary secretary’s chauffeur was inside. My friend told him that he couldn’t park there. The chauffeur responded: “Fejn tridni nipparkja – f’għoxx ommi?” (Translation for non-Maltese people: “Where do you want me to park – in my mother’s vagina?”

My friend took a photograph of the car, and the chauffeur “panicked and moved off”. “He was waiting for Buontempo’s son who was at football training at Sliema Wanderers. I had already seen him drop the boy off there earlier in the morning,” he said.

Stefan Buontempo, the Parliamentary Secretary for Local Councils, who uses his state-funded official car and chauffeur as a personal family service to ferry his children to and from school, private lessons and football nursery.