You couldn’t invent this ghastly chap – a crook from Bormla with secret offshore companies all over

I mean, really, where do these awful people get off? The Prime Minister’s dreadful chief of staff, a corrupt fixer from Bormla whose secret, tangled web of shady offshore companies in different jurisdictions is only now beginning to be uncovered, hurls himself howling out of his den to accuse the Opposition party of “crossing the line of all decency” and, not knowing his place, speaking in the name of the government and saying that “the government will remain steadfast in its mission”.

This is what triggered his hysterical reaction.

And to do that, of course, he used the Department of Information rather than his personal lawyers, as he should have done. Perhaps Mr Crook from Cospicua would like to use the Department of Information to tell us, at length, about his no-longer-secret offshore companies in Panama, the British Virgin Islands, Gibraltar and Cyprus (and those are just the ones we know about).

He might also wish to explain exactly why he chose to corrupt the managing director of Malta’s leading newspaper publishing group, why he entered into business with him of all people, and what nature of business this was and still is. And while he’s about it, he could reassure us that he wasn’t blackmailing the managing director of Allied Newspapers, given what a lot the managing director of Allied Newspapers had to lose if he was rumbled.

Just head off for the BVI sunset, Schembri – you’re disgusting. Malta spent enough years blighted by one corrupt criminal from Bormla. It really doesn’t need to repeat that experience.

Oh dear, I nearly let slip the name of your Gibraltar company. Can’t have that, can we. Tsk tsk tsk.