Tinsiex Cikk, li Joey haddan il-pulitka Mintoffjana, u ftakar is-slogan ta dak iz-zmien, ‘Malta l-ewwel u qabel kollox’ u l-MLP spicca biex qaleb kollox

Allura mhix xi haga ta l-ghageb li kif ghidt int, issa wasalna biex narrestaw il-vittma u nhallu min jaghmel delitt, idur mas-saqajn.

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Joseph mhux jien Muscat.

What nerve, coming from someone whose main part of the CV is a mud-slinging journalist who must then think that the “arlogg tal-lira” storm-in-a-teacup was more important than the O.K. Corral reenactment, seeing that Labour milked that story until its titties were sore.

Għallanqas kellhom jarrestawhom it-tnejn biex tkun tista’ ssir investigazzjoni tajba.

Mhux issa dak li spara seta’ jkellem lix-xhieda u għall-bżonn għeddidhom biex ma jitkellmu xejn. Insomma min jikkmanda jagħmel il-liġi …tajba u ħażina.Nerġa’ ntenni…viva l-iswitchers li ġabuna f’din is-sitwazzjoni tal-biki.

.. or should I have said the fatter one?

So am I.

As Prime Minister, Muscat should have summoned Mallia straight away and given him his marching orders on the sole basis that the event happened at all.

That is happened is indisputable. There are two or three bullet holes in a private citizen’s car and nobody is contesting the fact that Manuel Mallia’s driver shot those bullets.

The ‘how and why’ are irrelevant in this type of serious event where political responsibility should have been assumed on the spot.

But then why are we kidding ourselves that this government and its members can ever be trusted to do the right thing?

Instead they will use this time either to try to guide public attention to another ‘hot’ story – or worse, they will try to fabricate a story in-house, much in the same way they tried to hide Konrad Mizzi’s abject failures in his personal and much more importantly, public service endeavours by trying to implicate Pullicino in some half-baked corruption allegation.

Back to the board of inquiry: has this been ‘kostid’? Even if the work were to done pro bono (unlikely), there would be still be communication, stationery, and sheer ‘waste of time’ costs involved.

Journalists should ask who will pay these costs – the trigger happy security cum driver, or Mallia’s ministry or other government entity, which means it will be paid by us?

Could we just call off this charade and save ourselves some much-needed cash, seeing that if the PM had any doubt about the Minister’s actions that required an investigation, he should have sacked him straight away and, if at all, hold an inquiry to understand the facts so that the failings are not repeated by the successor?

As things stand, is there any bookie who will accept a bet that Mallia will sail through this unscathed come 15 days from now? I guess not; bookies ain’t stupid.

If true, this can only mean that Sheehan rang his Minister only minutes later, using his mobile phone standing free in the tunnel, while Smith was being taken away under arrest for “attempted suicide”.

Of course the Toad will not tell us anything about calls he got following the incident.

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Ariadne Massa comes to the rescue. What was it, more Peking duck, or another ice bucket challenge?