Sadly, you may be mistaken, The Sting.

Mintoff hardly made a living as an architect, so how did he amass a fortune since becoming a politician at a time when War Damages funds were being doled out to owners of war damaged properties?

I’ve never seen eye-to-eye with Mintoff’s methods although sometimes I thought I could understand his reasoning but not his delivery.

That said, I never had the feeling that Mintoff lined his pocket personally, although he was surrounded by the most obscenely corrupt people and letting them get away with murder put him in the same net.

However our present PM is giving his ministers the alibi they need as they are just following suit grabbing anything they can lay their hands on.

[Daphne – Why do you think that Mintoff never lined his own pockets? He lived like a miser because he was a miser, and not because he only had his PM’s salary to live on.]

“It is definitely not a good comparison with the Arriva story. Arriva was given a subsidy of €10 million and it failed, costing the country much more. Taxpayers will be forking out €30 million this year to make up for that mess.”

This is Joe Mizzi’s mess. This administration reminds of those pavement jugglers in Madrid with the three tumblers and folding table.

There’s a roadmap, of course, even to that. Like Dr Simon Busuttil, you have understood nothing of Labour’s energy plan, as said by the great chief Muscat himself last week.

We will buy at 9.4c per unit and sell over the interconnector at 3c or 4c per unit which is around the going rate, that is if anyone will want it. Now tell me, isn’t that a brilliant plan.

A tragicomedy with Malta as the main victim.