There’s going to be another demonstration against corruption this Sunday: this time go armed with bananas

The Opposition leader has said that another national demonstration against corruption will take place this Sunday. This time, we should go armed with bananas not wearing Panama hats, as the Icelanders did. Icelanders don’t have Panama hats but they do have bananas and they are far more appropriate in these circumstances.

The Opposition leader described the Panama Papers revelations as “the biggest international corruption scandal ever”.

“We have long known about Konrad Mizzi’s involvement but we have now learned a number of new facts, including the enormous international impact of what has been revealed,” he said. “These revelations have led to international furor, calls for resignations and protests in several countries. The Icelandic PM has this evening announced his resignation after he was personally implicated.”

Simon Busuttil drew attention to a fact that has largely gone unremarked upon in the deluge of information: that Konrad Mizzi is the only minister of government of a European Union member state to be mentioned in the Panama Papers. “He is among 140 politicians mentioned but the only minister of an EU state. He is mentioned in the same list which includes Syrian and Libyan dictators,” Busuttil said.

It’s actually much worse than that. The Panama Papers cover a full four decades of business at Mossack Fonseca and the only EU member state government ministers whose names occur in those 40 years’ worth of documents are Konrad Mizzi’s and that of a once-upon-a-time French government minister.

But as Konrad Mizzi said to reporters yesterday outside parliament, “I have always been faithful.” As somebody remarked to me on hearing him say that, “Dan haseb li kien qieghed jargumenta mal-mara?”