Political appointee to Planning Review Tribunal is very impressed by UAE skyscrapers

Andy Ellul visits a highly repressive dictatorship where human rights are routinely violated and where skyscrapers are built using abominably ill-treated indentured labour from Pakistan and India, and comes home impressed.

Typical Maltese backwoodsman li qatt ma ra xejn u qatt ma mar imkien u li trabba fi familja ta’ Mintoffjani ħodor li d-dittatura jaħsbu li hi progressivita.

Andy Ellul is a former pulizija Laburist turned tuppence criminal defence lawyer who has been hanging onto Joseph Muscat’s coat-tails for the last eight years while his sister Sharon Ellul Bonici stood on the Labour Party’s European Parliament election ticket (NO2EU) and campaigned for Nigel Farage.

Now he has had himself put on the state payroll as a political appointee/person of trust in the private secretariat of his personal friend and fellow social-clique-member, Minister Michael Farrugia, along with his girlfriend Claudia Cuschieri, by whom he has a child.

But what’s really bad about this – apart, that is, from the brass-necked cronyism and the corruption in the manner he and his Labour-TV-presenter girlfriend insinuated themselves onto the public payroll – is that Andy Ellul is a political appointee to the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal by which any appeal on the Sliema skyscraper will be heard. And he’s in love with the Dubai skyline.

Former policeman turned criminal lawyer Andy Ellul (2nd from left) with his brother, retired policeman John Charles Ellul (right), who is earmarked for the new post of Police CEO, and with former policeman turned criminal lawyer Vince Micallef, another member of the JPO clique, who Pullicino Orlando has put on the state payroll as board secretary to the Malta Council for Science and Technology