Prime minister evicts Maltese tenant-farmers to make way for his Jordanian paymaster; cracks joke at their expense

And he thinks that’s not a problem because, come on, he can always find them some other fields to till. When the press asked him where he planned to ‘put’ the evicted farmers, the prime minister actually cracked a joke at their expense to get at his political rival: “I’ll put them at St Luke’s Hospital, where Simon Busuttil said I should put the new university.”

Litteralment tad-daqqiet ta’ harta.

This is like kicking somebody out of their home and behaving as though there are no wider implications and they’re making a fuss about nothing because aren’t you going to give them a flat to live in somewhere else (when you’ve found one)?

What a sociopath, treating people that way, as though they have no attachment to their fields and any other field will do. What other fields, anyway? It’s not as though this is a massive island full of abandoned fields which are available to him to give away as gifts.

Kicking out Maltese farmers to make way for his Jordanian paymaster – shades of Mintoff crawling circles round Muammar Gaddafi and making us all bow and scrape.