This morning’s top comment

Posted by Thackeray:

So first this minister puts criminals back on the streets, then he takes police officers OFF the streets …. to serve food as waiters.

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.