Yesterday’s revolting episode of Xarabank exposed and in many ways reaffirmed three fundamental points. 1. To quote one notorious moral gnome, Where’s Everybody and PBS are “making a criminous use of public television”. 2. Pawlu Borg Olivier is either an imbecile or a big fat liar, or even worse both. He certainly is not capable of running the show at l-Istamperija and that’s exactly why he was picked to do the job. 3. Jason Micallef who in any normal circumstances should not have been sitting in that chair was thrown into a difficult situation. At times it felt as if the two Secretary Generals were Toto Rina and Bernardo Provenzano defending themselves by convincing us that the other one is worse.
Had Peppi Azzopardi really wanted to grill both parties than he should never have put Jason and Pawlu on a pedestal. He should have grilled them himself since he takes so much pride in his journalistic talents and a panel made up of civil society and data protection advocates should have been given the time to probe both henchmen. Yet one does not expect much from Government’s unofficial PR machine. The total control of TV and most of the media by the two big parties is sickening. No other country in the EU (apart from our dear Italian cousins) has such an atrocious broadcasting system. Nonetheless nobody seems really bothered so we might as well start dealing heroin in primary schools.
Jason and Pawlu should never have been invited on Xarabank. In any other decent and self-respecting illusionary democracy the two parties would have been represented by the successors of both men. The two puppets possess the intellect of a horse which has just been shot at between the eyes. They have no idea whatsoever about the differences between the state, the executive, the legislative and the parties. They have no notion of transparency and accountability. They believe that the SG of the party in power is responsible from running the state. NO. NO. The SG of the Nationalist Party is not elected by the people and is not employed by the people (the state) so he should stay away from the running of the state and the executive and concentrate on his fiefdom within the party lines. The SG of the Nationalist Party is employed by the party and elected by the party to take care of party business. The smooth running of the state and the assurance of fair and good governance lays with the executive and the legislative elected and employed by the people, assisted by civil servants, ONLY.
Claudio Grech representing… erm….sMITTS City also played his part in Peppi’s Xmas Pantomime. The MITTS-gate is as bad as it can ever get. A grave breach of national security is treated yet again with lethargic passiveness and no minister, no civil servant and no chairperson or manager takes any responsibility. No public uproar. No serious inquest. No earthquake. We might as well start selling weapons of mass destruction in school canteens.
