Muscat tries to create scandal out of €59 direct order in 2011
You know they are getting desperate when it has come to this: the Prime Minister’s communications coordinators using office time to tweet, Facebook and blog insults at citizens and the Opposition, while he himself stands up in parliament and tries to create a scandal, aided by his backbencher Silvio Schembri, about a €59 direct order given five years ago to a company in which the then prime minister’s son, a lawyer who is a director on several companies, is not even a shareholder but a director.
Yes, you read that correctly: €59. But hang on, there was another direct order the following year, in 2012, to this same company and my God! It was for €236.
Prime Minister Gonzi’s corrupt government gave a grand total of €295 in direct orders, over the whole of the nine years when he was prime minister, to a company in which his son was a director – not even a shareholder, which means he didn’t profit from that windfall of €295.
These idiots are now so desperate that they are lashing out with this rubbish, and they can’t even see that it is not evidence of corruption but of the lack of it. They’re been scraping through the documents for the last three years and the best they could find on Lawrence Gonzi and his son was €295 of direct order in nine years given to a company in which David Gonzi was a director and not a shareholder.
And the brass neck on them is just unbelievable. Silvio Schembri and his wife are, between them, creaming off some €100,000 a year in retainer fees, consultancy fees and other payments in public money. They have been given positions on boards controlled by the government when both are far too young and completely unfit for purpose. And as for the Prime Minister himself, freeloading for years with his wife, parents-in-law and children, and then he bangs on about a direct order of €59 five years ago. It beggars belief.
What makes this incident even more offensive still is the fact that we know Glenn Bedingfield is paid a generous full-time salary at the Office of the Prime Minister to do nothing but collect the information for the Prime Minister’s answers to questions in parliament. So Glenn Bedingfield will have written and produced this €59 scandal.
And then a few stories below there’s this one about Chris Cardona’s direct orders on one project alone.
Bring back the guillotine. We’re sick of them already and can’t wait another two years for a general election.
