Like what? Book depositories no longer exist now that everything’s on Kindle.

http://maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/In-the-year-of-the-oil-scandal-Malta-slips-two-places-down-corruption-index-20131203

Unbelievable. And all those monti sellers selling fake branded items are being given a new place to sell them from.

Their trip was to be paid by selling Maltese citizenship. This scheme was so fundamental to the PL’s plans that Minister Mallia even proposed a law that criminalises its criticism and derision, such as I am doing now myself.

This Mallia proposition was made in a state of panic, trying to save all those hundreds of millions of euros that were planned to be transferred to the national coffers (with some more into some pockets) once the scheme was launched. But the best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry, and this great scheme met its maker before it was born. Now the PL gov is in a fix. It has no money to lubricate the promises, no fuel to feed the ship that would have taken all those meritokrati to the promised land.

That ship has sunk and now everyone’s back standing on the wharf, looking into the horizon trying to figure out how on earth they’re going to get there. Poor sods.

“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”

[Daphne – Yes, it’s exactly the same tactic used to wean a child off a security blanket. You cut off a little bit at a time until finally it’s gone and the child doesn’t notice.]

Sandro Chetcuti’s comment on Michael Farrugia’s website:

Sandro Chetcuti Meta xi whud jimxu bl emozzjoni jwassal biex ikun distruttiv ……sfurtunatament l oppozizzjoni ghadhom irrabbjati fuq it telfa

Jilghaq ghax lil Michael Farrugia ghandu bzonnu zgur!

Oligarchy…PN….right!

On the other hand, Franco Debono is equally liable to pronounce himself on the matter, not just the lack of transparency but the government’s actual prohibition of disclosure of such important information of public interest.

This alone proves the extent to which a PN style of governance is better than the PL’s. Is THIS the alternative the switchers let themselves be duped to vote for?