“To the Mintoffian bully in Parliament. You will not silence us. Shame on you.”

Facebook comment by Nationalist MP Clyde Puli to Labour MP Joseph Farrugia who allegedly threatened him during a marathon parliamentary sitting on Wednesday evening.


“I said this is not funny and I wouldn’t sell her even for a billion.”

Anya Soldatova recounting what she told a Middle-Eastern looking man who offered €30,000 to buy her daughter Eva, 2, as she walked along the Sliema promenade.


“The [May 2010] bailout deal basically killed the economy.”

Greek Ambassador Theodoros Daskarolis on the effect of the austerity measures on his country’s economy over the past five years.


“The environment directorate has been ignored and ridiculed. It is just there for the sake of convenience because EU laws state that you need to have one.”

Former assistant environment director Alfred Baldacchino talking about the demerger at Mepa.


“Not even the corrupt Mintoff-Lorry Sant government managed to rack up so many scandals in just two years.”

Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil talking about the corruption allegations that have characterised Labour’s two years in office.


“If we get this wrong we will get it wrong for a very long time.”

Nationalist Party planning spokes­man Ryan Callus speaking on the split of Mepa’s environment and planning functions.


“I don’t know where she is working from. As I did not appoint her, I do not have a clue what she was doing.”

Foreign Minister George Vella on Sai Mizzi’s appointment as trade envoy to Asia and consul general in Shanghai.

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