Felix Busuttil praises the government that pays him €55,000 a year as a ‘person of trust’

I watched Felix Busuttil speak at the Labour Party’s mass meeting last Sunday and I thought how terrible it is to have reached that age and be reduced to singing for your supper at the table of corrupt politicians.

In this general election, Felix – I met him in the early 1980s when he pranced for Alison White and I was in the chorus at the MADC pantomime – praises the Muscat outfit which pays him €55,000 a year as a person of trust on the Malta Arts Council, a position and salary he acquired as a gift for praising the Muscat outfit in the general election of 2013.

To be in your 50s and unable to survive financially or professionally without crony hand-outs from a government is just so sad. Felix Busuttil and Lou Bondi, the one in his 50s and the other in his 60s, both latched onto Muscat’s teat at the Malta Arts Council for €55,000 a year, the one praising Muscat madly at mass meetings and the other pretending that the general election isn’t happening and that his new guitar is far more fascinating to his Facebook friends than his views on the tsunami of government corruption which has hit these islands.

Muscat’s party has become a magnet for the inept, the lazy and the greedy, all grovelling about on the floor at Joseph’s feet and demeaning themselves as an alternative to actually doing any real work in the real world.