The precedent is only partial. In that case, there was a sort of parliamentary passing of the baton. Here it’s more a case of the son picking up a baton that’s been lying unused since 1998.

Like I always say, Daphne: when you have a country running with lawyers, it’s easy to forget that there are actions which are perfectly legal, but still profoundly immoral and, especially, in incredibly bad taste.

[Daphne – On that score, I agree utterly.]

Ungrateful pigs, or as one of our late lamented teachers used to say, casting pearls before swine.

And Lawrence Gonzi is stabbed in the back, yet again.

So much for “l-aqwa President li qatt kellna. Proset PROSSET XXX”.

A conniving, rapacious snake of a man who knows no shame. If his son wanted to enter politics, George Abela should have resigned. Or the son should have stayed out of politics. You can’t have both.

[Daphne – There is a precedent. But I know what you mean.]

Jien ser naghlaq dalwaqt 39 sena u ma nistax nifhem kif qatt jistghu jigu jaghtuna lezzjoni fuq demokrazija, liberta u fuq kollox kif tmexxi pajjiz il-quddiem mil-lat ekonomiku.

Inhoss li qtajt qalbi.

They’d rather measure their boats. Everybody and his uncle is starving under this government.

Dr. Gonzi’s trouble started from that moment when Louis Galea was sidelined.