I just cannot understand how Zammit could have thought of pulling a fast one on Swedish Match. Was it perhaps he thought that the Swedes who frequented his restaurant, were one and the same as the big tobacco firms? It takes giants to deal with giants.

So no need to inform Gonzi. Remember that Dalli and Gonzi were rivals and the loser is always hurt.

Gonzi offered him a post in Brussels in return and Dalli happily accepted it.

He got a very good job thanks to Gonzi, but still they did not see eye to eye.

Not at all. Muscat harbours Dalli style have beens, embraces Mintoffianism and will stop at nothing, including throwing the country back to the 70s, just so as to become Malta’s youngest prime minister.

As if that is of any consequence to the ordinary man in the street. He is just as vain as Franco, as opportunistic as JPO and as subtle as Mugliette. (mutu, mutu, qrunu f’butu).

Hard as one can try, the LP just does not have anyone much better than Joseph. They had, but they could not see the forest for the trees. Much too late now.

An interesting theory, but forming a political party, finding candidates and campaigning would take more time than what’s left of this mandate and besides without an electoral programme it would be next to impossible to make any headway, unless…

Unless Karmenu Vella is writing not one but TWO election programmes. Money talks when there is any.
Seems unlikely now.

“Dalli is engineering a malevolent plan to oust the Nationalist Party from its long reign in government”.

Dalli by himself, cannot do that – only gullible voters can.

[Daphne – Because it’s the police who prosecute. Criminal cases are instituted by the police.]

Surely Dalli doesn’t think that the AG is part of the conspiracy to frame him. Poor guy,first he lost his battle to become PM of the PN, thanks to Gonzi who saved Malta, now he is also being asked to resign from a position he was planning to make a nice future for himself, forget Malta.

The EX is now in Brussels giving a press conference to prove his innocence without mentioning the fact that report is now in the hands of the POLICE. He will never stop at being greedy.

Muscat’s only aim is to secure a win for Labour. His only method so far is to inflict damage on the Nationalists even if it takes having to become a political prostitute with rebels like Dalli.

He has no ideas or programme because he hasn’t anything new to say. Lets be fair, its not easy to propose a political programme that can match the economc achievements and prosperity the Nationalist have so successfully managed to accomplish.

A more accurate name for the drama in Brussles would be “snusgate” because at the heart of the issue is the gate that the EU could shut tight against, or maintain ajar for, or open widely for, snus, with all the financial profit or loss that this would entail for the Swedish company that, being Scandinavian, is ipso facto accepted by prejudiced people, as snow-white pure. Let there be no mistake: the knives are out and casualties will result.

The latest is Christiaan Timmermans, chairman of the OLAF supervisory board.