Manuel Mallia: Jose Herrera must be laughing

Published: June 30, 2013 at 4:22pm

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My column in The Malta Independent on Sunday today – link below:

There we were, thinking that Jose Herrera the Justice Minister would be one of Labour’s worst threats to the democratic separation of powers. But the Prime Minister surprised us all – not least Herrera – by pulling a short, fat rabbit out of his hat and making him Justice Minister instead.

He turned out to be much worse than we thought Herrera would be, and lost the Justice portfolio after just 100 days. Now the Prime Minister is also the Justice Minister, an unprecedented scenario, and Herrera continues to stew in anger while Mallia continues to, well, have the police cook his stew.

It’s been 24 hours of non-stop jokes, memes and wisecracks involving which number to call for Peter Paul Zammit’s pizza delivery, whether to call at Floriana HQ for wedding reception menus, sirens wailing ‘Hawn tad-Donuts’, police vans emblazoned with ‘Stop me and buy one’ and ‘Tanti tad-Depot’, police officers called ‘waiter’ and enquiries as to how we would like our police summonses: medium, rare or well done.




4 Comments Comment

  1. admin says:
    June 30, 2013 at 4:22 pm

    http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-06-30/opinions/manuel-mallia-jose-herrera-must-be-laughing-1951694860/

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  2. curious says:
    June 30, 2013 at 4:36 pm

    If Herrera is laughing, John Rizzo must be splitting his sides.

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  3. Tom Double Thumb says:
    June 30, 2013 at 5:31 pm

    Do the police deliver Imqaret since Silvio is rather occupied elsewhere at the moment? In fact Silvio himself can produce the Imqaret in the Police Headquarters facilities.

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  4. Mediocracy Rules says:
    June 30, 2013 at 7:55 pm

    Excellent piece. Had visions of Mallia as a bunny rabbit.

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