Playing for time

against two people that are obviously sinking it, when the ship goes down, everyone will go down with it. Silly remarks like the investigation is only against ‘17 Black’ and not against Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri is as stupid and hollow as saying that the police are investigating a crime but not the person who committed it. The situation beggars belief! That a Prime Minister is allowing people so close to him to run the show and to be so arrogant in their regard to other people when press investigations clearly show that not everything is right in the State of Denmark!

I believe that this Prime Minister takes his policies out of the book by Ayn Rand who writes that sheer egoism is what finally rules the roost and runs the day in “Atlas Shrugged”. He believes that everyone has his price, that every person can be bought, and that as long as people are earning money from the passport scheme then he can do what he likes and let his colleagues feather their beds without anyone saying or doing something about it. Well I have news for him. This might work temporarily but sooner rather than later the pigeons will come home to roost and they have started to return.

The report by the NAO on the procedures used to build the gasfired power station in Delimara, confirms what many people are already thinking – that we are being run by a bunch of thieving crooks. The level that Nexia BT is allowed to oversee certain financials; the fact that the government itself guarantees the contract and the fact that the new power station is costing €200,000,000 per year more than the old power station is flabbergasting to say the least. Equally jaw dropping is the government’s interpretation of things being normal and transparent! If that deal was ever transparent then we need a new definition for transparency. I would say rather that these irregularities which are gross by commitment render the deal fraudulent and that this confirms that a can of worms is being interpreted as a can of prime tuna. If the government thinks that we are all so stupid not the see the apparent openings and connections for fraudulence and graft in this deal, then the King is ridiculous to think that we the ordinary folk cannot see that they are not wearing any clothes at all! It is the same as saying that no tenders were issued for a €300,000 contract at St Vincent de Paul Residence, no tenders were issued for a cleaning contract at the same SVPR, which was given to a company that never existed before, and no tenders were issued for services at Mount Carmel Hospital. One would be forgiven to think that we have a law requiring tenders to be issued for contracts above a certain amount of money considering that all the above mentioned contracts were given by a direct order!