Checkmate, dear Joseph. Hence the wilting look. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/57b4c8155020f6d1d0c01f44b54eeb7b759e2c46f674a21e2d5474a7c1fc0bf8.jpg

What a lot of hogwash. Kont nahseb li int aktar ragel serju.

This shows up repeatedly, when they refuse to publish contracts paid for a with public money, when they appoint their friends to positions of power, when they ignore due process.

It is the attitude of the colonialist. That cannot go unchallenged. The people are sovereign, and openness and transparency are not concessions they grant us, but the rules under which they get to act in the people’s names, to be restricted only in the most serious of situations.

Konrad Mizzi is going to worm his way out of facing the PANA committee. It’ll take more than Cardona to overshadow that.

Meanwhile, while everybody seems to be busy focusing on the Cardona scandal, they are giving Conrat Mizzi some respite which might well see him through to the next election, because people forget.

This they cannot afford to lose and, let’s face it, still have a chance of winning albeit by a narrow margin, unless there’s a sudden surge of common sense among the section of the electorate that can read and analyze.

Is there mounting internal pressure to get rid of corruption?

Rumour I got is that loud grumbling at hardcore/coffee morning level primarily due the total breakdown in the ‘customer care’ network.

The impact to the system resulting from reshuffles including Konrad Mizzi’s non-departure hadn’t been reckoned with, canvassers stepping on each others’ toes. Most blame him for having sent out mixed signals, they don’t particularly trust the persons of trust either.

It sounds perverse but the favour factory has turned on itself. They discovered that the favours given out took their time and do not necessarily link back to one MP or minister. Or better, one favour exchanges for half its value in votes. Chaos.