“It is high time to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue and defiled by your practice of every vice…..

….Ye have grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You who were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.”

But what do Labour MPs and their supporters do? Protect the corrupt and consolidate their support. Mad world indeed.

The fact is, though, that the decision to black-list was taken because Panama has long been a non-cooperative, non-disclosure jurisdiction. Mizzi’s choice was no fluke and besides, the Minister has had 8 full months in which to divest himself of all links with this company if he is truly so concerned with transparency. The same applies to the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff.