Premier Joe's Minions and Trolls have been delighting themselves, and no-one else, by crowing that the Panama Papers have burst the Nationalists' bubble.
Their argument seems to be that since Panama Hats and KtheK haven't been alleged to have any money in their cosy little money-boxes in Panama, nothing wrong has been done by these two. The M&Ts have also been having paroxysms of glee while citing heinous crimes on the part of Ann Fenech, Beppe Fenech Adami, Mario Demarco and, weirdly, some people at the Times of Malta.
In the case of Ann Fenech, fingers were pointed because, back many years when she wasn't even managing the firm she now heads, legal advice was given to a client who chose to establish a corporate entity in Panama. It seems the M&Ts, admittedly not being possessed of an enormous IQ in the first place, don't quite get it that when you give legal advice, you're not actually doing anything on your account.
Unlike Panama Hats and KtheK, who were setting up their nifty little piggy-banks for themselves and for the benefit of those who benefit with them.
Insofar as concerns Beppe Fenech Adami, his horrid crime was to buy an already-built and lived-in property and benefit, along with everyone else in the street (and around the country) from a policy that allowed an extension to it.
Apparently, his fully-declared income and financial assets are also some form of terrible contravention, offending no end the fine sensibilities of Premier Joe's hounds. Don't ask me why, ask them.
So that's two bubbles that have gone "pop" and left the M&Ts spluttering ineffectually.
Moving on to the more recent "Big Scandal", Mario Demarco has paid an invoice for which he had been asking for some considerable time. Whether he should, just maybe, have insisted that the invoice was submitted before the works were completed (why?) is moot, but the fact is, he paid it, in full.
His residual sin, according to the M&Ts, who have to fulfil the mission foisted on them by Panama Hats and KtheK's Lord and Master, is that he used the services of a company that has been connected to Panama.
If that is such a sin, what level of depravity should be attributed to the aforesaid Panama Hats and KtheK? And this is not to mention the newly-revealed pimping of Maltese citizenship by means of a company registered in Panama just hours after the 2013 election result, by someone who Premier Muscat trusts so much that he lets him set up shop in Castille?
I'm referring to Mr Brian Tonna, of NexiaBT, in case anyone was wondering.
The Minions and Trolls, for reasons that are lost in the fog of their "intellect", are also fulminating about how two people connected with the Times of Malta also made use of the services of the same company that Demarco used. One paid his dues by buying Sladden a painting of equal value and the other seems to have spent the princely sum of €300 or so, earth-shattering as this is.
And thus three more bubbles go "pop", spraying effluence all over Premier Joe's Minions and Trolls
And anyway, here, I'm baffled.
Any influence Mr Sladden, a good buddy of KeiththeKasco could (I emphasise only hypothetically) have had on the Times would only have been (mis)used in favour of KtheK and his own good buddy, so why, pray tell, would this reflect badly on the Nationalists? If anything, if there was any substance to the thesis, it would be in the sense that Labour was covertly influencing the free press, which no doubt they would dearly love to do but certainly can't want to be caught doing.
And thus three more bubbles go "pop", spraying effluence all over Premier Joe's Minions and Trolls.
Much like Anna Mallia in her pithy letter to The Sunday Times of Malta, I am very glad that ECHR Judge (Retd.) Giovanni Bonello did not feel the need to take a stand against corruption during the PN administration.
On the other hand, I am disgusted that the current bunch have given cause to many good men and true to take to the streets.