The Labour Party pretends it doesn’t know the difference between a shareholder and an intermediary

The Labour Party, led by the Prime Minister’s aides including Kurt Farrugia and Glenn Bedingfield, are busy tweeting and posting about “Nationalist names” in the Panama Papers data which went public tonight.

The poor things pretend not to know the difference between shareholders/directors and the intermediaries (lawyers, accountants & c) who set them up.

The names they are mentioning all fall into the category of Brian Tonna at Nexia BT – except that, unlike Brian Tonna, they haven’t set up secretive companies in the BVI and Panama for PEPs.

Of course the Labour Party big cheeses know the difference between shareholders/directors and intermediaries. So many of them are lawyers themselves. But they know that many, many people are too ignorant and uninformed to tell the difference, and the Labour Party is too dishonest, and too disrespectful of the electorate, to tell the truth.

I know their disappointment at not finding any companies owned by Nationalist politicians past and present – except for Ninu Zammit, to whom they gave an amnesty – must be immense. But they could react with a little more political maturity.

Try being honest for a change, Kurt – you’re the government’s communications chief and no longer working for the lying Super One bandwagon.