PN Deputy Leader Simon Busuttil this morning again defended a PN billboard which shows the political leaders with their faces painted in blue and in red.

Replying to questions at a press conference, Dr Busuttil said this was a tongue-in-cheek billboard, much like the Father Christmas or Brazil billboards which Labour had produced. 

However, the message on the PN billboard was very clear. It said that both political leaders were Maltese but the people had to opt for one of them at the general election. One of them, Dr Gonzi, guaranteed jobs, the other did not. 

Dr Busuttil said that Joseph Muscat's reaction to the billboard showed political hypocrisy. Dr Muscat had said that Labour did not look at the colour of people's faces but at what the people deserved.

Yet, Dr Busuttil said, this was the  same party leader who allowed PL deputy leader Toni Abela to say that he sought a labourite policeman (at Attard PL Club.) There, Dr Abela looked at the policeman's face. 

Dr Muscat had also allowed Dr Abela to hold on to his post after he was caught on tape admitting he did not file a police report. So in that case too, Dr Muscat looked at faces, in this case Dr Abela's face. Imagine what would have happened had he been the one not to have filed a report, Dr Busuttil said.

This, he said, was a clear case of double standards between what happened in the PL and elsewhere. Dr Muscat threw mud at others and then swept his own mud under the carpet. 

He did not personally know of any crime committed in PN clubs, Dr Busuttil said, but in any case the PN always reported such matters to the police for investigation.