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Dumbing down Parliament (with suspected criminals)

Change can be very good and relieving, especially when it is meant to replace dinosaur-era figures. But by now it should have dawned on everyone that the Labour government’s real intention with the change of Speaker is to further dumb down Parliament and introduce more censorship.

I remember Carmelo Abela very well from my days in the Labour Party, and I can think of very few other Labour Party politicians as useless and dim as him. Making him Speaker kills two birds with one stone: first, Labour removes him completely from the political-electoral field; second, Labour appoints a malleable servant who will drag Parliament’s standards even further below their already abysmal level.

It is not true, as he claims, that he was absolved of wrongdoing in the criminal investigation involving the HSBC bank heist in Qormi. The police simply avoided investigating him altogether, just as they avoid investigating Labour Party politicians.

Insane.

Read more about him here , here, here, and here.

 

 


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3 responses to “Dumbing down Parliament (with suspected criminals)”

  1. Makjavel avatar
    Makjavel

    It might be even worse than this. Protecting the speaker from court summons? The appeal against his release from court was based on a very flimsy excuse . He was not found innocent , the witness was not forcefully asked by the court to confirm what he had already said in a different court and on which this case was based. Selective justice?

  2. Banquo avatar

    The most shocking part of this story is not that the Labour Party nominated Carmelo Abela (one would expect nothing better) but that the Nationalist Party went along with it. No principled stand, no symbolic protest. Nothing. They voted for him.

    We really are on our own. The Opposition is castrated, incompetent or only sees a future in sleaze that equals the government’s.

    The government will now ‘co-opt’ the opposition in their project, as they have already demonstrated they can. There will be play acting at ‘competing ideas’ (even though there were none during our “very positive” election campaign) but the past months have shown that “it’s one big club, and you ain’t in it” (credit to George Carlin). I guess being in Opposition is not going to be that bad.

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