From the comments board, beneath the post about Mario Demarco and Silvio Debono
Salvu Mallia
I lost my programme on TVM for my principles and for speaking out against corruption. Unfortunately I find myself wondering if I should have behaved egoistically like Bezzina and Demarco. This coalition has to be built on firmer grounds not slimy betrayals, and like the rest of Malta, I need ANSWERS.
Daphne Caruana Galizia
You’re not the only one. If people can’t choose, then they have to be made to choose. Unfortunately, Mario Demarco was raised by a man for whom compromise and selfish expediency (and money) were far more important than matters of principle. And now it really shows though I always thought he was so different to the rest of his family. I can’t be more disappointed than I am today.
Guavonsla
I endured a similar upbringing and I can tell you it’s very difficult to think independently after being brought up in an environment where cronyism is an inevitable outcome of life. It’s no excuse though.
Oh, and I voted Labour in 2013. I realise I have never said that before. It was my first time voting so I’m officially a Labour voter, aren’t I? Not only that, but I voted Labour in bad faith.
The context is that in Gozo there were no honest politicians and that’s still the case as far as I can tell, so I really believed MLPN and I thought it extended to the mainland – but I didn’t bother to follow the news closely.
I didn’t care, I didn’t think it would matter, I thought it would be the same, and now we’re here and look at what I’ve done. A lot of people are suffering because of me.
How does one come back from that? Sure I’ll vote PN and try and convince the people that I can convince, but it doesn’t make it right, does it? Nothing does. Nothing ever will. This administration’s criminal activity will leave repercussions for generations to come. Even I can see that.
Thank you, Daphne – for everything. And I’m sorry. I apologise to everyone unreservedly.
For future reference, everyone: yes, it’s safe to assume that rotten backgrounds make rotten people. Forget your benefit of the doubt.
Silvio Debono – systematically buys up the services of politicians and asks them to send an invoice instead of cutting to the chase and putting money in a brown envelope
Muscat’s corrupt government, in an agreement negotiated by Konrad Mizzi, has given away public land at St George’s Bay to Silvio Debono, who plans to wreck the bay in this manner in full defiance of the planning process.