They are NOT mistakes but deliberate choices and bad decisions

Note to the Nationalist Party: please stop talking about Joseph Muscat’s “mistakes”.

A mistake is when you put the cheese in the vegetable compartment of the fridge. Or when you add 20 to 15 and make 45.

Politicians don’t make mistakes, but errors of judgement. And Joseph Muscat’s are neither. They are carefully crafted choices and deliberate decisions.

Calling them ‘mistakes’ dilutes the gravity of what we are dealing with here, and the full extent of the corruption and abuse.

Stop using the word ‘zbalji’ in the Maltese version, too. For a start, it has a wider meaning than ‘mistakes’ because Maltese vocabulary is restricted and one word must make do for several different meanings. English has highly specific words for all meanings, but when journalists translate a Maltese press release or speech containing the word ‘zbalji’, they are inevitably going to use ‘mistakes’.

Call them by their real name: decizjonijiet hziena/bad decisions. Or worse.