From the election result, you have to assume that the inner circles of both parties knew what was coming. A number like 35 K, in Maltese terms, is so massive it would be like the captain of the Titanic saying he didn’t see the ’berg.
Oh, wait a moment, he was an incompetent so-and-so, by some accounts, so, perhaps, the analogy doesn’t stand up – or maybe it does, when you think about it.
Let’s assume that both sides, at least up in the dizzying heights of the leadership cadres, saw it coming, for the sake of argument, anyway. It will explain the smug looks we kept getting from josephmuscat.con’s side of the field, if nothing else.
If they did see it coming, then, what’s all this about a couple of their medical types getting their undies in a twist about having to give up their practices in order to exercise ministerial or quasi-ministerial powers?
Up to about 2pm on Wednesday, I was a touch ambivalent about Franco Mercieca being given a waiver. On the one hand, he’s an excellent practitioner in his field and his patients, genuinely, need his skills but, on the other hand, the waiver included private and not just public practice, so unless some complex system of foregone...
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