It was far from flawless. Flawless make-up is designed to look natural.

It caved in because too many of them wanted a piece of the action and to sell passports too.

That’s what happens when the place is packed to the rafters with lawyers.

“Iss hej, allura jien ma nistax inbiegh passporti ukoll fl-IIP, u l-partners tieghi lanqas?”

And it’s not just people in the party, either – they would also have had their concerns about annoying all those – the accounting firms, the law firms, the consultancies and what have you – who wanted to sell passports and take a cut in ‘fees’.

The biggest brainwave this government had was to talk Henley into giving a cut to other brokers. Immediately, all those who were against were suddenly FOR. Why? Because being Maltese, they weren’t against it on a matter of principle or because of the far-reaching consequences, but because somebody else was going to get the money.

That’s Malta for you: pajjiz tal-fixers u l-pirati.

Corruption happens everywhere, but European/US investors are hyper-conscious of their public affairs responsibilities and how they are perceived by the public.

People who operate in undemocratic regimes don’t give a stuff about any of that, because the public counts for nothing.

To me it’s not a sign of weakness , but intelligence. It gave people …intelligent ones at least…the chance to see the cracks in the PL.

Marlene was livid, exclaiming more than once that she was voted into parliament on the Labour ticket but she had no idea what this deal involved.

This also exposed that Deborah Schembri doesn’t have any details whatsoever, either.

All she was capable of was churning out nonsense in dribbles.

It is not at all the right image for women either. We’re still at that stage of social development where one hopeless woman makes all women look hopeless.

Therese Comodini Cachia should have been there. She is serious, composed and comes across as very credible.

I cannot understand why the PN are sending Marthese Portelli to every debate. She always seems to be reading or making it obvious that she learned off by heart the notes prepared for her by somebody else.

This is not the image the Nationalist Party should be projecting.

If the project is wrong to begin with, you don’t propose alternative sites for it.

A simple example from ordinary life to drive the point home: a man leaves his wife and infant children for an ugly whore.

The equivalent of the PN’s behaviour would be telling him “Ghaliex dik, daqs kemm hi kerha u qahba?” and then suggesting some alternative and better, more attractive women he could go with instead.

But the wrong-doing is not the choice of woman; the wrong-doing is abandoning his wife and children.

I trust you understand now.

Oh, and you are right about White Rocks. Watch this space.