The official government spokesman doesn’t work on Sundays, nor does his boss, the prime minister, so neither of them was available this morning.

U allura, he’ll just follow the Police Minister’s example and stick them under a mattress at home.

The press conference was called hastily, before the Minister of Foreign Affairs could get to find out about it. That is the way Castile works under Joseph Muscat’s premiership. The huge cabinet is only there for show and reward chosen party supporters.

Flus indaf. minn ghand idejn indaf, ghal ghand idejn indaf?

‘….This morning, it was the task of government civil service chief Mario Cutajar to finally admit that the government is seeing an escalation of trouble in the nearby North African country. Mr Cutajar noted that the situation is different than that of 2011, and the government needs to rely on contacts in Libya.

Addressing journalists in a hastily called up press conference at Castille, Mr Cutajar said that the government is preparing for the worst case scenarios…..’

If there was evidence of this cabinet’s hidden agenda it must be this one.

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-07-27/news/government-finally-admits-libya-situation-escalating-5986418689/

[Daphne – Haha, yes. Just corrected it.]