Prime Minister’s corrupt chief of staff and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister to sue Opposition party

Joseph’s special minister, Mister Konrad, and Joseph’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, have emerged howling from their lairs with threats of libel suits to be filed against the Opposition party.

Truly, is there an uglier spectacle in a democracy than these two corrupt individuals laying about them with law suits to intimidate the press and the Opposition, so that they can carry on “populating” their secret web of offshore companies, some of which has now been exposed, with their illicit gains?

And as though that were not enough, the government itself – directed by a Prime Minister who is on holiday yet again, this time in Rome – has now said it will sue the Opposition for saying at a press conference today that the Enemalta/Delimara power station deal was corrupt.

The government has released a statement through its propaganda office, accusing the Opposition of “trying to deprive Malta of the biggest investment that has ever been made in the energy sector” by using “untrue and dirty allegations”.

You have to love it. They’re swimming in a sea of lies and corruption, with their dirty deals and unpublished contracts, and they call others “untrue and dirty”.

The government’s statement goes on, predictably, to say that the Opposition is just doing this – doing what? inventing companies in Panama and the British Virgin Islands and forging documents and emails which it then forces somehow into the Panama Papers? – because it is “unhappy that Enemalta Corporation is back on its feet, that the power station will operate on gas and that Maltese consumers are paying less for energy”.

Then out comes a leaf from the Beijing Book of Public Relations (if Beijing had an Opposition party, that is) and the government says: “The Opposition is relying on lies that were circulated to denigrate the government and the reputation of individuals with the aim of creating problems for the government”.

I’d like to say that you couldn’t make them up. But here’s the thing: in Malta you don’t have to. And people voted for this scum because – what do you know – they appeal to the worst side of Maltese nature, even in people who have had all the benefits of education and a privileged upbringing and should know better, perhaps because the one thing lacking in that equation was the genes for brains.

This is what triggered their hysterical reaction.