Totally agree. It’s hardly as if the Nationalist Party were working with perfect knowledge of the situation, even though as we learn, the Labour Party withheld information it did have on the issue.

I don’t see such a great fuss being made on the Labour withholding of information which should be a crime in itself considering the approach they took.

Norman Vella should be pleased enough that he did a good job when it counted. Improvement comes with time and application. How is he using his journalistic skills right now?

Perhaps he could be organising his own set of interviews and publishing them.

I don’t subscribe to this mentality of hindsight apology if a person has done his utmost beforehand. Somehow it comes across as a marketing technique.

I’d rather have a marketing technique that stands up as one and goes somewhere in the process.

Since when was building a country not wrought with contradictions, tension and injustice Baxxter?

Potential is key, locating it method, let Labour squander opportunity, betray their fear by threatening to ship refugees.

Who said Labour’s in power? To date every attempt held back, revised or scrapped. Sometimes Malta pre-empts the times, skipping linear progress.

Never was a government so blatantly useless, helpless and pitiful. Representational politics vitiated by media tricks, an art, is dead.

Or better, that breed of politician, is short lived.

No Norman, its not even near good enough, particularly when you have nothing to lose and all to gain by making such an ‘apology’.

W.O.R.D.

As for Simon Busuttil, the only apology he should offer is a giant one, on behalf of a party that found an atavistic and stupid backwater, and let it wallow in its atavistic stupidity, while showering money on the worst specimens ever to infest the island.

If any of us vote for his party it’s only because we’re terrified of its opposite number.

First Edward Scicluna, then Simon Busuttil, now Norman Vella.

What are these apologies supposed to do? Placate the electorate to garner votes?

They should have done their jobs properly in the first place. In private industry mistakes like these are classified as lack of professionalism and usually land you a formal warning or the sack.

Malta all over again. Leaving a hundred-euro tip just because the chef replaced the salmonella-infested eggs. You don’t go from civil servant to journalist to MEP just by admitting a mistake.

I wonder if he would still be so candid, had it not been for the fact that he got stick from PL.