Rubbish, my eye. Decisions are taken by majority vote. The deciding vote is the government-appointed chairman’s.

Rubbish. The Broadcasting Authority is bound to consider all complaints regarding broadcasting standards and regulations. If Nationalist Party candidates did complain – I am not saying they did – the BA would have looked into their submissions.

Well, the chairman has the deciding vote.

When third world dictators are re-elected, they make sure that the people are not allowed another chance to vote them out.

This election will be rigged, and once the economy collapses and Malta is forced to seek a bailout, Labour will give us the choice of leaving the EU, making it possible for it to impose an ironclad dictatorship without the need for elections.

Muscat may yet succeed where Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici failed.

Article 10 – Freedom of expression
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

Labour are in panic mode now and this Broadcasting Authority decision, their attempt at blocking Matthew Caruana Galizia’s Facebook site and the ‘Simon Busuttil’ spoof site are the latest of the Muscat strategists’ ploys that will quickly backfire.