Unwitting help from Sliema mayor

Nikki Dimech, the disgraced Nationalist mayor of Sliema, is proving to be a bit of a valuable lifeline for the Nationalist Party. Unwittingly, he has given the PN a bit of a new lease of life, tenuous though it may be.

He must be reeling with what has hit him. Why me, why all this fuss about me, he must be wondering. What is taking Mr Dimech to realise that GonziPN is ruthlessly using him to try to get some gloss back on to its image, tarnished and blackened not only by black dust but by future toxic waste of the BWSC power station extension contracts?

Through him, the PN is putting on a show of being against corruption.

It could not do it in the multi-million euro power station contract – the spider there was too big to deal with – so it is doing it in the Mr Dimech matter.

Mr Dimech has been sacked by the party and his fellow PN councillors are to present a motion of no confidence in him. That is a grand stand against corruption. But only where small fry are concerned. The significance cannot, surely, escape Mr Dimech.