How frighteningly right you are.

Unless the Opposition and journalists start bombarding the government’s every move by a million questions, that is exactly what will happen.

This is interesting.

So the police committed a criminal offence, namely handling food without the necessary license. The police are duty bound to prosecute when a criminal offence is committed.

Will the police prosecute itself?

Could the Police Commissioner’s intention have been to get his ‘boys’ some extra overtime payments ?

And next they will probably be ordered to join the General Workers Union.

This is serious abuse of office and ministerial power, which this minister still has too much of. And if the prime minister does not recognise this – and takes no action to correct it – then he is knowingly acquiescing in the destruction of the ability of the police to perform even the minimal duties it is capable of.

The government should be investing in professional training of police officers, not cutting catering costs by using Floriana canteens.

Previously, if you needed a policeman at St Julian’s the answer was usually “I can’t come out – I’m on my own here” (while his five colleagues were out smoking and joyriding in the patrol car).

Now the answer is going to be “I can’t come out – I have to wait tables at Girgenti.”

At least the ‘high society’ will still be served by the police, even if no one else is.

At this – accelerating – pace of abuse there won’t be an election in four years and 258 days. The Labour ‘movement’ will simply be assumed to be a majority and the motion to extend the present government by another term will be passed by a show of hands at a mass meeting in Hamrun.

They will come down to reality only when their pockets are affected.

It seems that all that the majority of Maltese think of is their pockets – no principles whatsoever, even if those principles are a guarantee of their civil liberties and democratic rights and safety.

The time will come when that will happen too and then they might wake up to reality and realise what is really going on with the PL in government. Pity we have to wait a few more years or hopefully, months for that to happen.

The argument is not at all about food handling – it is about policemen being made (or volunteering) to act as cooks and waiters for the Police Minister.

Does anyone who is not a policeman, have the right to wear a police uniform ? What next, dress up as a policeman during the three forthcoming carnivals.

Dalwaqt jibdew jqaddsu wkoll.

Domine Dirige Nos.