@Anna, if I remember correctly it was LM40,000 and not LM14,000.

Love the Baywatch comment!

If I remember correctly, the Court had awarded him Lm14,000 as compensation for unfair dismissal. The judgement was delivered when the PN were re-elected after 1998. I always wondered how he managed to get that job.

That’s proof, if one was ever needed, that the Nationalists are really not much better than their Mintoffian counterparts when it comes to blatantly exercising their power of incumbency.

If I remember correctly, the contract for managing (!!) the National Pool Complex was drawn up a few months before the 1996 election, and Silvio had made sure that the contract provided for a clause that, if he ever sacked from the post, he gets a fantastic pay-off sum.

After Sant was elected, he was naturally sacked and got his nice cheque in settlement.

I am sure many others, who have obtained cushy jobs through the right connections, are trying to do the same as they scent a Labour victory.

Yep, and all three need to go. But the PM won’t budge, the people won’t see beyond their coffee mornings, and Paul Borg Olivier won’t go either.

What qualified him as director of the national pool defeats me unless it is his physical attributes that give the impression he is a professional swimmer.

Not to mention his massive encroachment on the Sliema sea front turning his cheap kiosk into a prime business venture.

The first reason is that the PN has an incompetent individual as Secretary General who is partly the reason why the PN is in the state that it’s in and that’s not an opinion.

The second reason is that some people are not capable of seeing a wider picture than a coffee morning. How can one otherwise explain why certain Members of Parliament garner such a high number of votes even when they repeatedly appear on Super One talking about slow punctures.

The third reason is that the PN has a Prime Minister who has allowed all this to happen.