Two crabby old men who will be voting for Joseph because of their personal grudges

Martin Scicluna, whose own foreshortened future (he’s an octogenarian) and total lack of concern for anybody else’s has driven him to write this piece of craven stupidity, tells us he will be voting for Muscat again. Because you know how it is: he was so right last time.

That makes two of them, because the unbalanced Saviour Balzan (he of the 1am calls from Keith Schembri) is doing the same.

Scicluna got the response below from Patrick Tabone.

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Martin Scicluna brushes off the many accusations of corruption against Keith Schembri and Konrad Schembri as “highly suspicious circumstantial evidence – which has not passed any test in a court of law”. On that basis he says that there is no real choice between the two parties.

Rather than listening to Martin Scicluna I would prefer to listen to people who actually know what they are talking about on the subject – the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit, a state body comprised of expert investigators in the field.

The FIAU has compiled four – I think it is four, I’m in danger of losing count – reports into the activities of these gentlemen and found much more than circumstantial evidence. In fact that they conclude that “a reasonable suspicion of money laundering and/or the existence of proceeds of crime subsists”.

These reports were passed on to the Police for further investigation and prosecution. So why have these conclusions “not passed any test in a court of law” – yet?

Because the Prime Minister suppressed these reports and due process was not allowed to occur. The Commissioner of Police resigned and was replaced by a nobody with the spine of a jellyfish. The Head of the FIAU did the only honourable thing he could do and resigned, given that his Unit’s work was being hidden from view and ignored.

And Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi went on their merry way, doing new, multi-million Euro deals behind our backs.

Joseph Muscat suppressed due process and the institutions of the State to keep his best friends out of trouble. That is not the conduct of an honest Prime Minister, or one who is worthy of the position.

On Saturday I will vote to get him out; and I will vote for Simon Busuttil to become Prime Minister. He has visibly grown during this campaign, connected with the people, and clawed his way back from an almost impossible position. He has given detailed promises about introducing a cleaner way of doing things.

Joseph Muscat made this mess. He cannot clean it up. I think that Simon Busuttil can, and I will vote to make sure he is sworn in as Prime Minister next Monday.