It's funny how the PM seems to think he can get away with things by doing them over the weekend.  What does he think, that we won't check out the news and won't react to the little stunts he pulls?

I mean, come on, appointing Mr Joe Debono Grech, stalwart of Old Labour that he is, to act as Overseer in Chief of the Gozitans, isn't this a bit much?   Yes, I know, in an ideal world, everyone would give a full day's work and march cheerfully home, humming the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves tune, tousling the young brat's hair and kissing the wife as he is welcomed to the family hearth, but we're not in an ideal world. 

What worries me about people like Mr Debono Grech, who has publicly made it known that as far as he is concerned, if you're a Labourite, you're one of the good guys and if you're not, you're not, is that if they spot someone skiving, their blinkers will come into play.   And given that diplomacy is not his strongest suit, one wonders what's in store for the Gozitans.

Segueing neatly from that little thought, it would be interesting if someone could let slip what sort of political views are espoused by the rude mechanicals who seem to have been so adept in modifying Enemalta's not-so-smart meters. 

After all, they can't be that smart if they can be bamboozled by a horny-handed tech, can they?   Things being what they are, we'll probably find that politically they're in the region of fifty-fifty, these nefarious types, but I keep hearing that maybe this is not quite the case. 

Oh well, I'll leave it to other areas of the media to take the top off that particular can of beans.   While they're about it, they could perhaps find out who the people who paid for their meters to be criminally adjusted are: Joseph Muscat seems to be hinting that the other half of the dishonest equation isn't going to be witch-hunted, which might be code for telling them that if they pay up, they won't be named and shamed.

Sorry, but this isn't on: paying a criminal to do a criminal act is criminal in itself and drawing a discreet veil over the whole thing just isn't going to cut it, especially in the case of the commercial meters that were messed around with. 

All honest citizens, especially the honest entrepreneurs who were so vociferous in moaning about high utility bills before the elections, should insist that Muscat and his minions name names and redden faces, because otherwise we'll all be wondering if the whiners weren't in with the criminals after all.

And what's this about repeaters at the Uni being allowed to get their stipends along with everyone else?  It's bad enough that students here are paid to go to Uni while their mates all over the place are having to sweat it to find enough cash to do that, now the people who mess up their exams are going to be rewarded by being paid to buy the same books all over again.   

Sounds weird to me.

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