They are exempt from issuing a VAT receipt but still obliged to issue a fiscal receipt.

Qabel l-elezzjoni tajtx kemm xewwew kontra Gonzi u l-PN.

Dan ghandu dar kbira (s’intendi mal-partner tieghu Germaniz) fi Triq San Pawl, il-Belt Valletta.

Qabel l-elezzjoni kien iggib fuq il-Facebook page tieghu ritratti ta’ propjetajiet abbandunati li hemm f’din it-triq (fin-nizla) u kien jikkundanna lill Gonzi li dawn qedin ftit passi il-boghod mill ufficju tieghu go Castilja.

Issa hemm Muscat bhala Prim Ministru u s’sa issa ghadu ma sar xejn.

Zomm kelmtek Dr. Shaw li ser taghmel minn kollox biex quddiem id-dar tieghek ma jibqax dak il bini mitluq u qed jaqa’.

It’s the Xarabank culture. As soon as the panel get down to actually discussing anything, it’s “Waqfa ghar-riklami”, Fabri piping up on his guitar, or that ridiculous James Bondin.

Leave the rock before you can. It’s the only way.

This is a local shop for local people! We’ll have no trouble here!

I must disagree with your last statement, Curious. Not everything is swept under the carpet.

Labour’s propaganda machine keeps going on ad nauseam about Tonio’s clock, the 500 Euro raise and Austin’s Swiss bank account to name a few.

In my eyes, this has reached brainwashing proportions which can be ascertained by the fact that people keep repeating these arguments in a parrot-like fashion, quoting the exact expressions used by politicians (with mistakes and all).

Other issues, which in my opinion are much more serious and may have long-term national and in some cases international repurcussions, are ignored until they are forgotten.

Another strategy used is creating another issue to distract the people from the real problem.

This selective action on current problems and the way the public’s perception is being influenced is very worrying. If it was not for the few people like Mrs. Caruana Galizia, the Maltese public would be living a puppet’s existence in fake utopian bliss.

Rational people have been the odd ones in this Royston Vasey state for quite some time now. I’d leave tomorrow if I could.

[Daphne – Royston Vasey, that’s it. I used to watch that skit and think how familiar it all was.]

Going by the news bulletins on Sunday evening we were given the impression that somebody was going to be arraigned on Monday morning away.

What a f**ked up country we’re living in. John Dalli gets away with his Bahamas adventures. Manuel Mallia declares half a million in cash and no IRD asks questions. First he told us that he sold some property and then when we asked for proof he said they were the ‘fruit’ of forty years of hard work.

Still no word from the Commissioner of Police re the Serkin incident.

F’Malta kollox imut fuq ommu.

So romantic – sounds like some convenient clinical arrangment.