If you want a monument to the body evidence that testifies to the unfitness for office of Minister the Honourable Joe Mizzi, just look around you.

Do this little thing while stuck in the perception of a traffic jam that imposes itself on your perceptiveness.

If you don't come to the conclusion that there is sufficient evidence to make the charge stick, then you are either on happy pills that reduce everything to a fuzzy perception that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, or you're a Lil'Elf Labour Troll, which is pretty much the same thing.

A few random examples culled from the media and from actual experience will gild the lily for you, as it were.

Consider the bus-lane installed at the Sliema-Gzira Sea Front.

Don't get me wrong, as a biker I love the idea of being allowed to use a lane with less traffic, except for the buses, taxis, LPG vehicles and cars carrying two passengers and a blow-up doll. The fact that cars have to cross in front of me to park or to leave their parking, or that drivers open their doors with gay abandon virtually every other car is not germane to the issue: this was a sublime idea that received approval from one and all.

Not.

Even such intellectual giants as Luciano Busuttil and Lynn Zahra seem to have formed the opinion that the idea was quite a few nuggets short of a Happy Meal, though true to form they expressed themselves less than clearly on this.

Moving on, consider the outcry that has arisen about drivers of foreign registered cars parking where and when they like without the inconvenience of having to pay a fine.

The fact is, slapping a ticket on such vehicles is a waste of paper, as anyone of us who drives abroad with a Malta-registered car knows.

The solution however is simple, if only Our Hero's Transport Malta, advised as it is (or was) by legal luminaries of the finest kind would wake up and smell the coffee, to use one of Premier Muscat's less happy aphorisms, as things turned out for him.

If the offending vehicles are not causing an obstruction, clamp them, allowing release only against payment of a fine including regularisation of registration if they're over-staying. If they're obstructing, have them towed, again only to be released against payment of the fine and fees due. When no-one claims the jalopies, turn them into scrap metal.

It's not rocket science, unless you're Joe Mizzi, it seems.

If you want more evidence: take a drive on the Coast Road. The works are ongoing as we speak, causing mayhem and extreme danger, and even when they're eventually ready, after years, you won't be able to see much of the sea, which is the whole point of driving that road, really.

Not unless you're riding a bike upright (which you should) or you're in the cab of a large truck.

Still not convinced?

Just go for a drive. The roads will rattle your fillings out, not to mention turning your car into a wreck, the badly regulated traffic will make you wish you were on a bike, allowing you to filter through (it's legal) and the whole experience will have you screeching imprecations at Joe Mizzi and his minions.

Resign, my friend, it's the only honourable course to take.

But wait, Labour Ministers don't resign, they're perfection personified.

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