Yes, but she’s incredibly well-connected, which makes up for any deficiencies.

I think that the culprit for the resignation of KMF was FD.So there was no reason for KMB to think or imagine that the lawyers from the other side tried to avoid eye contact with him..What happened in parliament was normal except for the negative vote from their side.

[Daphne – No, it isn’t normal at all. The Opposition votes WITH the government routinely on pieces of legislation. It is only the exceptions which make the news. It is normal for the Opposition to vote against, for example, the budget, exceptional pieces of controversial (to the Opposition) legislation, and so on. Also, you are not reasoning well: it was the Opposition which brought the motion. So in this case, it was the government voting against the Opposition, and not the other way round. Bringing a motion before parliament for the resignation of a minister is not normal, and must be founded on exceptional reasons: lying, cheating, stealing, grave misdemeaour, and the like. It’s certainly not for the routine running of the ministry.]

What was he expected to do? Years ago ministers had a right to continue practising their profession. The same people who were surprised seeing Carmelo as a lawyer at the law courts are probably the same people who expected ministers not to be paid a full salary for a full time job.

I wouldn’t be surprised that Dr Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici will earn more and work less as a Lawyer/MP.

What goes round comes around: when Franco dethroned Carmelo from minister he automatically added competition directly against his private practice. I think he will tell us about his sufferings in his private practice.

Something on these lines “Issa jien kont naf li jekk inwaqqa’ lil Carm minn ministru xi klijenti minn tieghi se jmorru ghandu. Araw x’sagrificcju ghamilt.”

He should have written:

Not true. I greeted and spoke to him as usual.

What he wrote infers that he greeted him and talked in a normal way, not necessarily to CMB, but for a period (undefined) following the greeting . Given the person in question I would hazard a guess that the period in question would definitely be of a very short duration.

Interviewed by Saviour Balzan, he said that “I was sceptical (about changes to the motion) for two reasons, in retrospect” and was faitfhfully reported in the Malta Today report.

The choice of words seemed strange and, in a comment, I asked how one could be sceptical in retrospect. My comment wasn’t uploaded but at least the report has been corrected. The video clip however is still there (11 minutes 28 seconds)

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Jose-Herrera-sceptical-about-asking-for-CMB-s-resignation-20120605

I bet he’ll do the same after he votes for the other vindictive and very personal motion against Richard Cachia Caruana.

Just goes to show Luciano Busuttil is even worse than his colleagues who at least felt some pricking from their consciences.

By rights, anyone who took an active part in the plot to deprive a deserving and honest Minister of his ministerial post and being complicit in Dr Franco Debono’s avowed personal revenge SHOULD feel ashamed and should feel the need to avoid eye contact with his victim.

To them all’s fair in love and war and it’s perfectly fine to hang, draw and quarter someone in one building and exchange pleasantries with same in another building, barely two blocks down the road.

I was going to write that this behaviour beggars belief but, on second thoughts, it’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from these buffoons.