While we drift slowly into summer sizzling mode. the politicians who should be leading by example are doing unbelievable harm to our reputation and status.

It isn’t enough that Joseph Muscat has embarked on a mission in the immigration field that sounds too close to xenophobia and racism. He hollers at the EU, showing his snarling teeth and threatening vetoes and other silly stuff which remind me of Mintoff back then in Helsinki. The mouse that roared and all that.

But if this isn’t enough, we also have the John Dalli affair turning us crimson with rage and embarrassment.

And the last thing we need is to keep someone in delicate positions when all eyes are on us. Till a few long months ago, we were so much out of the spotlight—thank god or whoever turned off the beam on us. Now we’re back.

John Dalli should go and the quicker the Prime Minister asks him to resign his post in the health sector, the better it will be for him, for the country and for John Dalli himself.

When the Police commissioner hastily told us all that there was no case against John Dalli, the Prime Minister immediately appointed him to a to solve our health care problems and give a good hand to the beleaguered, beguiled and tear-jerker Minister of Health.

The John Dalli appointment was one of the worst moves of the young prime minister who is doing his utmost to seem super-efficient but is choosing the wrong people around him. His decision to appoint Dalli was not well-received by the EU but Muscat, in one of those retorts which should shock all objective observers, said he, Muscat, will not accept the EU’s diktat. Or some such brat’s words worthy only of politicians on the fringes.

Sometimes I feel—and fear—that even the likes of Norman Lowell could be asked to join the band.

There is only one way for the Prime Minister: boot out Dalli now. Be man enough and admit it was a terrible choice.

All the Prime Minister has done in this regard is hear out what John Dalli had to say about the Bahamas mess. Quite an interesting and damning contrast to what he did when telling the EU about our policies on saving the distressed.

The Bahamas mess is just that—a ruddy mess. Whatever was done and not done on that tax-haven of an island, the last thing we need to have as a super-minister in Malta is a man who did things while he said he did other things. Even if not guilty he was involved in stuff which sounds shady. Even if Christians and aid were involved some details were left unsaid by him so not all was saintly right.

So for the sake of sanity, for the sake of Malta’s reputation, and for the sake of your reputation as a man of principle and integrity, please Dr Muscat, do the honourable thing and tell John Dalli to GO. Now.

While we drift slowly into summer sizzling mode. the politicians who should be leading by example are doing unbelievable harm to our reputation and status.

It isn’t enough that Joseph Muscat has embarked on a mission in the immigration field that sounds too close to xenophobia and racism. He hollers at the EU, showing his snarling teeth and threatening vetoes and other silly stuff which remind me of Mintoff back then in Helsinki. The mouse that roared and all that.

But if this isn’t enough, we also have the John Dalli affair turning us crimson with rage and embarrassment.

And the last thing we need is to keep someone in delicate positions when all eyes are on us. Till a few long months ago, we were so much out of the spotlight—thank god or whoever turned off the beam on us. Now we’re back.

John Dalli should go and the quicker the Prime Minister asks him to resign his post in the health sector, the better it will be for him, for the country and for John Dalli himself.

When the Police commissioner hastily told us all that there was no case against John Dalli, the Prime Minister immediately appointed him to a to solve our health care problems and give a good hand to the beleaguered, beguiled and tear-jerker Minister of Health.

The John Dalli appointment was one of the worst moves of the young prime minister who is doing his utmost to seem super-efficient but is choosing the wrong people around him. His decision to appoint Dalli was not well-received by the EU but Muscat, in one of those retorts which should shock all objective observers, said he, Muscat, will not accept the EU’s diktat. Or some such brat’s words worthy only of politicians on the fringes.

Sometimes I feel—and fear—that even the likes of Norman Lowell could be asked to join the band.

There is only one way for the Prime Minister: boot out Dalli now. Be man enough and admit it was a terrible choice.

All the Prime Minister has done in this regard is hear out what John Dalli had to say about the Bahamas mess. Quite an interesting and damning contrast to what he did when telling the EU about our policies on saving the distressed.

The Bahamas mess is just that—a ruddy mess. Whatever was done and not done on that tax-haven of an island, the last thing we need to have as a super-minister in Malta is a man who did things while he said he did other things. Even if not guilty he was involved in stuff which sounds shady. Even if Christians and aid were involved some details were left unsaid by him so not all was saintly right.

So for the sake of sanity, for the sake of Malta’s reputation, and for the sake of your reputation as a man of principle and integrity, please Dr Muscat, do the honourable thing and tell John Dalli to GO. Now.

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