Mallia can’t even seem to understand the basic gist of Busuttil’s argument (and that of many others); as a Mr Rotcaf commented below the article:

“What he is saying Mr. Mallia which is quite simple really is the following.

1. The idea has potential.

2. The scheme as proposed now does not involve investment but sale. You should check a dictionary for the difference between investment and sale.

3. Your scheme is a sale of Maltese Nationality whatever name you care to give it.

4. What the PN is saying that the obtaining of the Maltese nationality is tied with actual physical investment in the Islands and not 650,000 Euro.

Why do you have all those people working for you if they cannot explain such a simple concept.”

I know Mallia’s trying to make the Opposition sound incompetent, but he’s only showing how much of a moron he is that much more.

For years Mallia was the Secretary of the Rent-a-Car association and spent most of his days defending parking tickets in court.

It was only after the commencement of his romantic liaison with the daughter of Malta’s leading criminal lawyer, who subsequently took over this “title” from her father, that he started to practise criminal law.

His arrogance and strutting about was learned in the criminal court – however, unfortunately for him and now us, intelligence does not get absorbed in a similar manner through osmosis.

He therefore evolved into someone with strong traits of arrogance but a lack of intelligence: not a good combination but very common.

Witness to this has been that a significant proportion of the gaffes made in the first 8 months of this government have been made by him or his underlings. The tragedy is not so much that however, but that he is not learning from these gaffes and ploughs on relentlessly, something that he will no doubt continue to do within this term unless Joseph Muscat, in the presence of Mrs Michelle Muscat, has the sense to remove him.

He can literally get away with murder.

More so with Peter Paul at the helm.

What’s wrong with Bullfrog?

Civil Union Act, equating same-sex union with marriage = Suspension of all applications for child adoption by Maltese persons.

Sale of Maltese Citizenship shrouded in secrecy = Malta kicked out of Schengen Area and loss of visa-free access to USA, as well as to the remaining 130 other countries where Maltese travelers currently enjoy such access.

What price Malta citizenship then?

I am waiting for Salvu Balzan to give him a nickname. He has, in the past, regaled us with history lessons about French cardinals of the past.

Will Le Roi Soleil do for Manuel? In terms of power, maybe, but there’s nothing soleil about him.