If the government/Green Mary agreement is so great, then why was Godfrey Farrugia sacked?

The agreement between the government of Malta and “Green Mary’s University” was actually made last year.

That business yesterday was little more than a mise en scene to distract us from the scandals mounting up around the government.

The prime minister is now making much of this agreement and selling it to us as though it is the best thing to happen in Malta since EU membership (ooops, sorry about that, Mr Prime Minister).

So in that case, Muscat had better explain why he sacked Godfrey Farrugia, the health minister who negotiated the agreement with Green Mary’s, only a month after Farrugia signed off on it.

The agreement with Green Mary’s was signed in February 2014. Godfrey Farrugia, the health minister, was sacked in March 2014.