Since when do ethical standards get sanctioned by the PM? Who the hell is Gonzi to decide what is ethical or not ethical?

Exorcise yourself, Tonio. Here is a man who does not believe he should even consider resigning. Here is a man who has presided over the worst financial years of the last 22 years and is still treated with kid gloves by the press.

No case of libel will change the fact that the Ministerial Codes of Ethics were ignored. We are now used to libel suits being filed to intimidate or give the impression that what was told was not true.”

The central theme of Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, was that the country is not in crisis. Parts of it are, parts are not. Taken as a whole it is certainly not relaxing on a bed of roses.

Prime Minister Gonzi could not be trusted, he repeated, since there was no visible and plausible explanation for the ballooning deficit which reached €345 million in August.

The government is undecided on a lot of things including the budget date, its content, Malta’s EU commissioner, government re-shuffle and utility tariffs. It is not even replying to our most simple parliamentary questions and no motion we presented in well over a year was discussed