Like the regular correspondent, Paul Brincau, of Uxbridge, I am a foreigner in a country looking on amazed at the political mayhem that Joseph Muscat and his ilk are getting away with. They really must think the electorate, ergo, the Maltese people, are stupid.

On April 9, the Prime Minister was reported as saying that part of the government’s success lay in the fact that it did not sweep problems under the carpet.

So where do we start? Keith Schembri? Konrad Mizzi? Pilatus Bank? Vitals Global Healthcare? Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder?

What type of government would give unnecessary promotions within the police force and the armed forces before an election? Possibly Robert Mugabe and Jacob Zuma but they have been deposed.

What type of judiciary fines a young tourist €4,500 for taking a leak, among other things, and hands down a suspended jail sentence to a policeman convicted of allowing migrants to bypass immigration control at the airport?

What type of government would not expel Russian diplomats along with the rest of the EU for fear of upsetting its passport sales?

The eyes of the rest of Europe are focused on the European Capital of ‘Culture’ with raised eyebrows. Daily, there are reports of “hunters” (camouflaged cowboys) illegally shooting protected birds? Where are the police?

Were it not so pathetic it would be a joke... a sick joke.