And, yes, your argument about GDP is nonsense. If you take your argument to its natural conclusion, renal patients, and other beneficiaries of essential health services funded by charity, will have to die every time GDP contracts.

Basic services should be provided not because of Malta’s GDP growth rate, but because they are essential.

You don’t need to know anything about finance or economics to know that there is something intrinsically wrong in a government that funds its ministers’ alcoholism, affairs, and sundry other extravagances and caprices – to say nothing of their “personal assistants”, concubines’, wives’ and mistresses’ demands – but obliges patients to beg for life-saving treatment.

So don’t give me this GDP nonsense. Essential services should be provided regardless. If economies need to be made, the cabinet can get off its collective arse and walk, instead of being driven around, and travel cattle class, rather than first class or in private jets. Janice tas-Super One can take the bus, Mark Abela can cut out the pastizzi, Dorothy Abela Busuttil Fitzpatrick can learn to walk in zarbun tat-tennis, Michelle Muscat can drive her own children to school in her own family car or put them on a school van like thousands of others do every day, every useless Taghba Lkoll appointment terminated immediately, and Sai Mizzi made to return the half million she scrounged off Malta for doing sweet fuck all.

His implied disdain for the rule of law is symptomatic of this corrupt government.