You got me all wrong, Daphne.

My point is not this case but that is obvious corruption which even a blind person can feel.

My point was in reply to:

“I never understood how all that goes on and no one bats an eyelid.”

(Previous entry was a tentative experiment in typing with a spoon in hand.)

Franco Debono’s hinted that he’ll set up a new party.

And there’s always Alternattiva.

All roads lead to Rome or, in this case, a Labour government.

100% on your last point.

In the US lobby groups are part and parcel of the political system and there is nothing wrong with lobbying as long as it is done above board.
All NGO’s are lobby groups, so what’s wrong with that ?

[Daphne – Define lobbyist. Now define gatekeeper. Which one was Silvio Zammit? The latter. Paying a gatekeeper for access to a powerful politician might have been common practice in Malta in the Golden Years of Fusellu and Patrick Holland etc, and might still be common practice in Khazakstan, but it is considered totally unacceptable and extremely abusive in the democracies of the west. Try this comparison for starters: imagine if Barack Obama had a henchman who was paid to set up meetings with his Obama. Or if, to get access to David Cameron, you had to pay his driver. Now do you get it?]

Jien kont qed nahseb li forsi l-ex Kummissarju mar jixtri l-imqaret u kebbewhomlu f’kopja tal-email.

In fact, he would think he was being clever by leaving his name out of the Zammit/Swedes emails.

I bet you any money they caught him through his IP address.

What about the boat trip he organized during the EU referendum!
Ghax ma qdewhx hej.

I don’t think the company would have copied John Dalli in on an email where they ask Silvio how much he would charge for access to the Dalli himself. I’d give them at least that tiny bit of etiquette.

[Daphne – GROAN. I did not suggest that the Swedish company bcc-ed Dalli (and it’s not about etiquette, but common sense). I said that his henchman Zammit almost certainly bcc-ed him. Dalli would have had that reply from the Swedish company not because THEY bcc-ed him, but because Zammit would have bcc-ed him when replying yet again. Each time you bcc you get the whole string of correspondence. For heaven’s sake, should I really have to explain these things? Let’s say I’ve agreed to bcc you on my email exchanges with X. You won’t get X’s messages directly from him, but each time I reply to them and bcc you, you’ll get the whole string beneath.]

In many ways, Lawrence Gonzi typifies everything that’s wrong about the Maltese. He is, for instance, easily impressed by bullshit, and has appointed dozens of incompetents to top posts.

Even worse, his inner circle is made up of yes-men intent on hedging their bets and covering their tracks incapable of challenging him on anything. And we all know what happens when a powerful man goes unchallenged. He becomes delusional.

The truth of the matter is that the PN does not deserve to win this election. No more than the MLP does.