Fuq kollox il-whistle blowing can work both ways, for justice and against the blower.

Din tkun vera serjeta’ kbira minn naha ta’ Joseph Muscat ghax ikun qed juri lill-kull Malti u Ghwdxi li vera dan Joseph Muscat ghadu halib ommu fi snienu u ma’ jafx x’gara fil pajjiz u min huma dawk il-Ministri li kienu l-percimess tal-korruzzjoni fi zmien il-Labour meta kien fil-gvern.

Din hija il-bidla u t-terremoghd li ghamel Joseph Muscat fil-Partit Laburista?

Jekk hu hekk miskin dan il-poplu u miskin aktar jekk il-Labour jega jkun fil-gvern b’dawn in-nies tal-mishijja.

Ah Luigi, but only prospectively, thereby ensuring that those who definitely deserved to be criminally prosecuted cannot be as it is time-barred.

If it is questioned. The likelihood is that the listener knows it’s dumb but here lies the problem: he questions himself before he questions Joseph, because a leader is not ‘meant’ to lie to you. Something unfathomable, especially when the great man is there before you and everyone else is clapping and smiling too afraid of his own shadow jew x’jghidu n-nies to comment or stick out errm “the Emperor’s really not wearing any clothes, let me say again”. There again a couple more are lost. Once you hesitate and question yourself rather than Joseph. He has won you over.

The problem is that some/ many people are happier believing the lie than the truth. Then the illusion is almost complete for the purpose it seeks to attain and the duration required.

Those few who are left questioning – the rest of the population – know that an injustice was and is being served under the title of Democracy and free speech – but the truth is that the malady just creeps upon you. At first you’re too good and lenient to say anything. And that’s what this person counts on. That’s how he steps all over the electorate.

After all, we’re now far down the line here.

Remember:
He’s already been to Brussels and wears that like a feather in his hat.

He’s party leader. (… he was expected to be the epitome of Labour perfection, well perhaps he is)

He’s promising everything. He can’t possibly be disappointing any but the discerning.

Mintoff’s blue-eyed boy. And we’ve turned full circle? All ‘roads’ lead… where again Joseph?

This is one of Joseph & Co’s unwritten proposals and involves the reform of the Law Courts. Once this takes hold, we are assured that the reorganisation of the Law Courts will be “fast-tracked.”

I recall the Great Duminku Mintoff promising us the Ombudsman in the 1971 election.

“Malta Marida, Medicina Mintoff” was the MLP slogan.

There was also the “Seba Miljun Lira Dejn” battle cry.

It was Eddie who promised and instituted the office of the Ombudsman.

[Daphne – Karmenu Vella must be really worried then, mustn’t he.]

But of course you didn’t say anything on the oil scandal. All you said is that Frank Sammut is a labourite.

[Daphne – There’s nothing to say. I am a pragmatist in the southern Mediterranean. I have known the purchasing managers of leading hotel companies and similar operations with large buying requirements sacked for taking kickbacks or ‘let go’ because of suspicions which couldn’t be proved. It’s when politicians are corrupt, or when they allow or facilitate corruption in full knowledge that it is going on, that I feel the need to get upset. The rest are just common or garden crooks. Yuo find them everywhere, including the private sector.]

Do we really care what Sammut’s political sentiment is?

[Daphne – Yes. I do. And so would you, no doubt, if he were a galoppin tal-PN. The first part of my working life was spent battling corrupt Laburisti. They hold a special place in…well, not my heart exactly.]