[Daphne – No, the realist. It’s like blaming the restaurant manager for choosing a cook who burns food. Unbelievable. But even that isn’t accurate, because a cook is not a person of trust. So let’s just say it’s like blaming the manager who insists on bringing in one particular personal assistant, because he wants only that personal assistant, who then blows the place up.]

Mallia cannot defend himself with the phrase “the driver I was given by the police”. The driver is an extension to Mallia and his wife because they trust him with their very young daughter, a trust which goes beyond that of driver and his passenger.

Moreover, as it seems that the child was in the driver’s care, Mallia needs to answer the following questions.

When the driver was at his mother’s house while Mallia was on official business, was he on full pay or on call benefit? He should have been waiting outside for his boss, not babysitting the boss’s daughter at his mother’s house.

As the driver and his mother were taking care of Mallia’s child, are they being paid for this service? How much is this service costing Mallia? How are they being paid? And where is the fiscal receipt?

Or is it part of the service they are expected to provide him with in return for the perks and privileges of working for Mallia, at taxpayers’ expense?

Damn, I’m good. I’m making Freudian Chewbacca slips. It’s billion of course. But don’t tell anyone.

Purposely left out three zeros H.P just so the defendant will be let off the hook on a ‘technicality’?

If by now, you haven’t understood what the real issue is, you never will, Persil.

The main issue is Mallia stating that Sheehan had fired warning shots ‘in the air’ on Wednesday night but the next morning admitted that his driver shot AT Morrison Smith’s car.

The theory that he was fed the wrong information becomes a cropper as more and more eyewitness reports come to light. To make the story short, Mallia lied and if a Minister is caught lying, in a sane country – he goes, and fast.

Yes, and they made that bridge look bigger than it would need to be, so that the people will talk about it and say that it does not make sense to build a bridge like that.

The bigger the lie…

Two for the price of one?

Or, “if the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit”

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/46691/mallia_to_demand_resignations_if_inquiry_uncovers_attempts_of_coverup_by_ministry_officials#.VHOpZyiInfY