Everything they do is bent

Fifty years ago, this lot of Maltese men would have been shifty fixers working out of Soho, London, running girls and drugs and stolen goods, in between knifing each other.

But now we have had progress and xogħol għal Maltin f’Malta, and so they are running the government instead.

They’re literally incapable of doing anything straight – and they don’t need to come up with creative ways of cheating the authorities because they are the authorities themselves. All they have to work out, as they bend and twist the rules and prevent investigations or enforcement is how they might shove all this corruption, cronyism and rewriting of the rules down the public’s neck so that the public will vote for them again in 2018.

Just look at this. First they allow their corrupt businessmen cronies to save money by picking, in lieu of a proper LNG tanker, an ancient rust-bucket which they probably saved from the shipbreaker’s yard, and then they force Transport Malta to register it even though sea-going vessels older than 25 years are not permitted to fly under the Maltese flag.

When challenged about it by journalists at the Times of Malta, a spokesman for Transport Malta said that they are making an exception because the tanker will be “operating in Maltese waters or from Malta” and because “LNG tankers have a much longer lifespan than other vessels”.