A Labour supporter is struggling to decide whether the prospect of Joseph Muscat being corrupt is worse than that of him being too stupid to notice his most trusted lieutenants were corrupt.
Muscat’s ex-chief of staff Keith Schembri was arrested on suspicion of money laundering last week, while the disgraced former prime minister is himself rumoured to be the subject of an FBI investigation into money laundering. The compilation of evidence against Yorgen Fenech will also continue in the coming weeks, with hundreds of potentially damning Whatsapp messages set to be presented to the court.
“It’s all well and good saying ‘Viva Joseph’, ‘40,000’ and all that, but even a diehard Labourite like myself can’t now deny that there are only two possible scenarios when it comes to Muscat: either he was stupid or he was corrupt. I just have to decide which is worse, and hope for the other to be true,” said Labour supporter Sandro Cassar, 47, from Zurrieq.
“On the one hand, if he didn’t notice that Schembri, Konrad Mizzi and the rest were busy screwing the country while enriching themselves, while not being corrupt himself, I could just pass it off as him being too trusting of his friends.
“But that also makes him really weak and dumb, which doesn’t square with my image of him as a decisive, calculating genius. So maybe it’s better if he’s corrupt. Good on him and his buddies for playing the system and making as much money as he can. And at the end the day, even PN were corrupt. Yes, it’s definitely better if he’s corrupt. I can live with that,” Cassar concluded.
“But hang on, if I’m OK with Muscat being corrupt, does that make me stupid, or corrupt as well? Damn it, things were a lot simpler when Daphne was alive and we could just dismiss her as a hate blogger.”
