Cabinet ministers should not carry on seeing constituents as though they are ordinary MPs
The Minister of Justice (left) with the Minister for Gozo (right) and that escaped garden gnome, Albert Marshall
Just read this shocking comment sent in by a regular reader.
The Justice Minister is still seeing constituents – that should actually be supplicants – at his constituency office.
And so there is no record of his conversation with them, their smart-phones are sequestered at the door and locked in a box until they re-emerge from his hallowed portal.
If he doesn’t want it to be recorded, then he shouldn’t be saying it in the first place.
And he shouldn’t be having these meetings at all. He’s a government minister, for God’s sake – the Justice Minister, what’s more. These sort of meetings are ripe for abuse and corruption. The mere suspicion of it is bad enough.
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Sent in by a reader:
A relative of mine made an appointment to speak to Owen Bonnici. He waited for two hours in his constituency office with lots of people who were there begging for rights.
His identity card was examined. Then, before he was allowed to meet Owen Bonnici, his mobile phone was taken away from him and locked in a box.
This humiliating ordeal was repeated with every person in the waiting room.
It was only much later that my relative understood why his phone was taken away. The Justice Minister lied in a barefaced way and he wanted to make sure there was no recorded proof. Veru bniedem jaqq.
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I hear that Jose Herrera meets his supplicants in an office he took over near or in the Manoel Theatre. The same mobile phone procedure is applied. Can anyone confirm this?
Marie Louise Coleiro continued to meet her constituents when she was a minister.
“U issa l-kanzunetta li jmiss, ‘Our best days are long gone’ – ikantaw ghalikom, The Gigolos” [applawsi].
You are right !
All Albert Marshall needs is a red pointy hat.
And a 3-foot fishing rod.
They had promised heaven to everyone, knowing that the places were limited. But it was only after the deed was done that the people got to know. And now the people are bearing the fruit.
It’s true. I have heard it from other reliable sources.
Cheap, cheap and triple cheap.
Sounds like a job for a budding undercover journalist with one of those James Bond recording devices you can buy for cheap online.
All in the name of transparency.
I’d definitely take a second mobile phone or recording device. Or do they also carry out body searches? I guess I’ll never find out because I won’t be sitting in any of those waiting rooms.
And he’s supposed to be the more acceptable face of Labour. Kollha l-istess jaqq.