Tistghu tghiduli x’qed jigri hawnhekk?

Aesthetics aside, is there any city, in the whole world, where that country’s parliament building is surrounded by an open-air market?

Is this all a cynical reflection of the tacky deals our government is continuously making on our behalf? Our country’s reputation is being sold as cheaply as the items on sale at the market.

If parliament were to remain where it is now, at the Palace, would anyone imagine a market in the square below it?

So during a Nationalist administration we had a project to embellish the large square in front of it, now under Labour we have a project to denigrate the new parliament – and by this I don’t mean only the physical edifice itself, but what it actually stands for.

In a way this is poetic justice, because it perfectly represents what Muscat and co actually think of democracy and parliament itself – the highest institution in the land – which is there to safeguard it.

Talk about the epitome of cynicism, hamallagni, bad taste and the quintessential socialist mentality of “uglifying” anything remotely unutilitarian.

And he’s also a lackey like his best buddy Peppi.

Yeh, like Timbuktoo.

And when the vehicles did arrive, they are Mercedes Citaro buses. The same model as the hated bendy-bus, albeit the smaller and rigid 12 metre type.

The vehicle was bad for Arriva (to the point where millions of Euros of buses are dumped in a quarry and the company had to leave Malta), but good enough for ALESA.

To myself, it demonstrates there was nothing fundamentally wrong with the type of bus (other than the bendy-bus being too large for some routes) and the woes of the bendy-bus were down to lack of care and vitriol.

You might get a glimpse of one of the 450 maltese crosses, though.

He should his soul and silence for a contracted salary so no one should be surprised to see him aligning his comments with those of his boss – hence it’s not news worth reporting

I fully concur. The design is hideously substandard.

The design is a problem too, for most people anyway. Perhaps you like it, Roberto, but most think it’s crude and plain ugly.