All the crawling has paid off. Ian Castaldi Paris is standing for election on the Labour ticket.

Ian Castaldi Paris has spent the last few years running the Nationalist Party down rabidly on the Labour Party’s television station (he is the former PN mayor of Lija). It has paid off for him, because he has been allowed to stand for election on the Labour ticket.

This might explain his interest in acquiring Palazzo Busietta in Wardija. As a minister in Joseph Muscat’s second government, he will need a suitable residence.

The President of the Law Reform Commission, Franco Debono, who is gagging for the same privilege, is probably taking it out on his caged canaries as we speak.