Thrifty with their own money, but spendthrifts with other people’s taxes

This photograph, taken on 15th November 2014, shows Owen Bonnici, the Minister for Justice, buying pillows at Tal-Lira where everything costs a euro.

He had left his wife and daughter for Janice Bartolo earlier that year and was setting up home in a mezzanine in Old Mint Street, Valletta.

So he goes to Tal-Lira to buy his personal pillows for a euro, and then spends €13,400 of taxpayers’ funds on first-class flights for himself and for his private secretary to fly to China for just a day so that he can talk bollocks at a Chinese forum about tourism, tweet about it, and then fly back to Janice, who gets to rest her head on Tal-Lira pillows.