I think that after the enquiry and the decisions which the Prime Minister might take, eventually he will emerge as a hero. And his popularity might increase. Who knows? I wonder how Dr. Mallia will take it if he is made to resign. Earnestly waiting. Never a dull moment here in Malta.

I think that after the enquiry and the decisions which the Prime Minister might take, eventually he will emerge as a hero.

And his popularity might increase. Who knows? I wonder how Dr. Mallia will take it if he is made to resign. Earnestly waiting. Never a dull moment here in Malta.

I meant ‘press conference’ not press release.

We can do a Kessler and say “there are non-ambiguous pieces of circumstantial evidence” that suggest that the minister was told about the bullet holes, either by Sheehan or by the commissioner, or both, before his initial press release.

Somehow, I find it hard to believe that the minister would stretch his neck that far for a driver who erred.

And they say I am a ‘conspiracy theorist’. Mur gibkom tistudjaw il-politika globali bl-istess lenti!

However they don’t need to worry as they can still restore their dignity by a minor surgical operation as suggested by the Education Minister.

[Daphne – Fantastic, David, irony! Doing really well here. I’m actually pleased. But hang on, nobody is smearing their reputation or even trying to. On the contrary, people are saying that they should not allow themselves to be used because they are better than that.]

We already knew that the police were aware of the bullet holes well before the DOI release.

The transcripts do not even tell us whether Sheehan told his minister the truth, let alone whether the PM knew.

The transcripts simply confirmed what we already know: that the police knee-jerked into cover-up mode, then quickly tried to cover up the cover-up attempt.

The minister’s grave error was to initially come out in praise and in defence of his driver. But there is still no evidence that Sheehan had to that point been telling him the whole truth.

Yes, you can speculate, but I’m talking about evidence here.

Ares, the vast majority of those people you term as having screwed the country were seduced by Joseph Muscat after having had enough of the Gonzi government.

Those are the people whose rightful place lies within a much better political party than the MLP will ever be.

They are the ones who will make a difference come the next general election because they won’t be voting Labour again.

I’m not talking of the Lou Bondis, the Cyrus Engerers, the Jesmond Muglietts, the Franco Debonos or the Jeffrey Pullicino Orlandos of this island. I am speaking about the thousands who saw a better Malta, rather than more money for themselves personally, in Joseph Muscat.

They were thinking in national terms rather than personal gains, in the main.

These are the people who were taken in by sweet talk, who failed to gauge the consequences properly, who were not capable of seeing through rhetoric and theatrical make-up.

These are the people who had originally shifted to the PN because of serious incidents in the MLP ‘Golden Years’. These are people who voted Nationalist, perhaps for the first time, when the Blue Sisters were kicked out, when the university students were beaten, when Maltese doctors had to leave Malta, when a band of criminals ruled the country – I could go on forever.

‘Screwed the country’, you say. I disagree. They ‘unscrew it’ perhaps, they made a bad choice and most of them can see that today. Everyone is liable to making mistakes.

Let’s welcome them back, because it is only they who can ‘screw the country’ back into place now.

Joseph Muscat must be hoping that the three esteemed retired judges act the part of the surgeon in the Evarist Bartolo scenario.

Maybe giving the PM a little more rope? tsk tsk

When is the “verdict” due anyway?