2. No.

3. and 4. Not one. 2005, the year they are making all the fuss about, is the year his mother died and that means the year he acquired actual control and ownership of the asset. Before that, his mother had had the usufruct since 1973, the year her husband (Gatt’s father) died. The money was his – he had opened the account in the 1960s.

Whatever. There is cross-party approval of Pullicino Orlando. So there.

That’s the real rot.

If I remember correctly an engineered landfill was in the then minister’s mind. He was a member of the PN and it was no problem for him at all to state his opinion which was completely against.

But if today the present government decides to demolish Hagir Qim and Mnajdra and be replaced by a ‘ disco ‘ or a ‘ klabb tal-bocci ‘, he will not be in a position to utter one single word unless it is in favour of the proposed project.

Swiss leaks induces his lowlife response, one of his cabinet threatens her employees, a union leader refuses to comply to the plotting and his personal correspondence taints him directly with taxpayer’s money.

Last week we get to know he willfully entered a conflict of interest; a contract to serve a private company’s interests before taking oath to serve the nation.

The week before last, he lost his favourite whistleblowers to justice.

Next week should have a power station up and running.

Too bad he’s stuck between Tobruk and Tripoli. Not that Azerbaijan matters either, the EU just launched the continental energy project.

Now there’s a lobby he may have to counter. It will be interesting to get his grand vision for surplus infrastructure AND energy production via EU-hostile states, that’s practically every supplier he’s looking at, instead of a strategic idea to rid the EU of its dependence on these.

What most ignore is that the idea can potentially reduce demand and supply discrepancy by 85%. Yes, technology can save us. Still, Muscat lingers on Malta’s strategic location in a world where servers are virtual web agglomerations.

So growth has been revised upwards, but so has deficit and debt, and no sign of proper capital expenditure to reduce local energy production costs, still under the illusion he may get away with de facto subsidies to industry; an urgent requirement once passport selling will definitely become the next target after banking secrecy. Strange how economics turn on you sometimes.

Even more urgent then, is the prime minister’s grilling to what he refuses to disclose to the electorate. I think treason may well be an understatement here. Never was the press as complicit with its silence to this scandal.

No property spike anywhere to be felt either, unless you’ve got your property portfolio in Tigne’. How marvellous, Taghnalkoll was just kollox jibqa’ xorta.

2015 is not a good year for Muscat. That it not rot Busuttil’s will.

I also think that when you have such a mentality you read the world around you differently. In other words, the only reason they can think of as to why you write against them must be because you are paid to, or you have a mental problem.

Austin Gatt – I don’t particularly like the man, but I’ll tell you what, I admire his directness. He is as straight as a die and you know exactly where you are with him.

He’s a ‘do-er’, and he’d have my vote on any day of the week. Little wonder he was entrusted as Eddie Fenech Adami’s election campaign manager.

Were this lot checked for the lethal chips on their shoulders, and deadly axes in need of grinding as they entered the building?