” I will not protect no-one” means ” I will protect someone “. Two negatives make a positive.

Isn’t the secrecy surrounding the agreement with China, the contract with Henley and the names of those buying Maltese (Eurfopean) passports protecting HIM (His Imperial Majesty) Joseph Muscat? The first and greatest of Joseph’s commandments is “Save your own skin”.

These are exactly the kind of people that voted for the Labour Party – they like to believe in dreams (vision) but are unable to handle reality.

or Stalinista

There is no such thing as statista, if anything bniedem tal-stat, that would be uomo di stato.

And don’t give me statista is used in Italian, it’s wrong.

It’s ara x’qed taghmel int as opposed to ara x’ghamiltu intom.

Or better, it will get worse and there’s nothing you can do about it.

That includes the PM ignoring the speaker’s instructions, his armed escort disobeying the army officer’s demand to stop and let him carry out his duty. This was Monday.

The Palace is the army’s competence, it’s a fundamental of our checks and balances. When Muscat’s escort is made of police officers, Monday’s was an extremely serious precedent.

A message to both the Speaker of the House and the President of the Republic.

Ah, but the gist is ‘how ridiculous for a magnificent budget to be outshone by a couple of bullets in a car’.

Minimize the scandal, do not mention the Minister, his driver, the chase, the official changes in the story, but glorify the budget.

“I will not protect no-one” Times of Malta quotes Muscat as saying.”

That must be a “fingers crossed” promise strictly for the future only and not applicable to the past two years. It is a promise that will be kept as convincingly as that other notorious promise of a power station that would be generating electricity by next March but of which there is no trace as yet.