https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eq0bXnVcUU

‘To be honest.’

Maybe one of his Faberge eggs has hatched.

All one needs to do is file an STR. Any takers with time to spare?

What a total and utter shame on the ministers to so blatantly under declare their income. If they do this in public, just think what the do when preparin their self assessment forms.

MPs on either side appear to be imune from investigation. Which public official in his right mind will grill an MP and then spend the rest of his life awaiting payback?

Let’s hope that by the time the whistleblower’s act is enacted, it is not just a useless toothless bin liner.

Journalists have civic responsibility yet they are afraid to force the politicians come clean.

With MLP in government they loose their mettle.

Hindenburg.

(Blimp on fire. Nudge nudge.)

I still can’t fathom this half a million cash declaration. The first question I ask is: why did EM declare the sum? Secondly, where did it come from? If from his legal practice, was it declared? If not, was it paid all at one go, why did EM flout money laundering legislation? If not at one go, why not deposit it? Which begs the question: why declare the sum in the first place.

I dare offer my own interpretation (plrase feel free to edit as you deem fit): whatever the origin (which may be as virginal as a woman who has worn a chastity belt all her life), fact is the money is (supposedly) unusable since cash transactions are no longer possible if not in small sums.With that amount there have to be hundreds of small transactions and still, what’s the use of wanting to spend the money? Now we all know about it and it is “in the system” if you will: only, of course, the money is not in the system and irrespective of what our Minister thinks , the FIAU should start asking questions. And the TCU and IRD.

Diplomatic maybe not, but BIFAL would be an acronym indicative enough.

After all, why worry? Mallia did not when concocting excuses – however feeble and unbelievable they may be – for his BIFALing.