So how are Konrad Mizzi and Chris Cardona going to vote?

The government’s bill to amend the press laws – drafted by switcher Stefan Frendo, long-time legal adviser on press matters to the Times of Malta and The Sunday Times (but that fascinating fact is just incidental) – includes the repeal of the criminal defamation law.

The Education Minister and the Justice Minister, who announced it jointly in line with what appears to be unofficial government policy for cabinet ministers to give press conferences in twos rather than singly, said that there are 10 criminal defamation cases before the courts.

Well, three of them are mine: Konrad Mizzi, his communications lady Lindsey Gambin – who has been completely invisible and doing anything but communicate as her boss drowns in one media disaster after another while avoiding journalists, and a weirdo former inmate of a California jail, Charlie Spiteri.

The same bill also barring the use of precautionary warrants for cases filed in terms of the Press Act. There are only four of those currently in force, the first four in Maltese legal history, and all of them are against me at the request of another cabinet minister and his EU presidency policy officer.

So how are Konrad Mizzi and Chris Cardona planning to vote on this bill? It’s a rhetorical question, of course, because those two are the worst in the cabinet, in line with the Labour Party’s track record of choosing the dregs for the deputy leadership.

Has anybody seen this man?