If PL were serious about stamping out corruption there would be no compromises. If a person is suspected of bribing a public official he should be investigated and, if there is sufficient evidence, he should be prosecuted before a court of law.

Anything less than that is a recipe for disaster.

I’ve an even better one:

Din id-darba, gustizzja ta’ veru.

Electricity pirates. Furbani tad-dawl.

Like that lot in Mad Max. As Tina Turner said, “Goodbye, soljah.”

Welcome to the Banana Republic of Malta!

http://www.independent.com.mt/mobile/2014-02-20/news/six-week-deadline-for-users-of-tampered-smart-meters-to-regularise-position-4016734208/

The six week deadline ends by mid-April. They will first say that they (not the police) are analysing the ‘information’ received from the ‘small fish’. Then a couple of days before the election they will throw mud at the PN ‘big fish’ without giving enough time to convince otherwise before election day.

Every 5 years or so, and inevitably prior to election day, the electorate is subjected to these sagas.

And Labour, this time round, need a lot of mud ammunition to counter balance the fiascos during the past year.

Now he wants to do the same and hide names of electricity thieves.

Pressure should continue to have him do a u-turn on this too although I seriously doubt that this will happen as I am sure that amongst the 1000 + thieves there are a lot of friends of friends of the PL who helped the party to get elected. Shame on them all including Muscat and the PL.

[Daphne – The reason that it won’t and should not happen (I will be the first to object) is that it is very wrong: shades of China’s Cultural Revolution. The names of private citizens suspected of committing crimes should NEVER be published by governments (not even by the police, still less the government). Publication should only be at formal arraignment in court. For a government to publish the names of real or suspected transgressors is a violation so great that I am surprised so many supposed democrats of the free world, commenting on this blog, are mentioning it as something desirable. You do realise that this is totalitarian behaviour, do you?]

“Social parasites.”