They want to run the country without being scrutinised

He takes a fabulous retirement package from the Bank of Valletta which basically means that he will be cashing his bank salary every year while working and being paid as a parliamentary secretary; he raids the bank’s intranet to which he is not allowed access, as a former employee, for the details of private individuals to shore up his defence; then he comes out blustering saying that he’s going to sue.

And this in the thick of the mess with Marco Gaffarena – in which it is either he who is to blame, or the minister to who he reports, Joseph Muscat.