The Ministry For Tourism has been renamed as the Ministry of Fuck-Ups, after several countries placed travel restrictions on Malta, dealing a huge blow to the country’s tourism industry.
The restrictions follow a surge in Covid-19 cases over the past week, which has been blamed on the government for not testing tourists on entry and allowing mass events to take place.
As a result of the restrictions, the ministry and its minister, Julia Farrugia Portelli, have been made redundant.
“Seeing as we won’t be having many tourists anymore, there’s no point in having a tourism minister. But instead of disbanding the ministry, we’re just going to repurpose it as the Ministry Of Fuck-Ups,” a government spokesman said.
As minister of Fuck-Ups, Farrugia Portelli will be tasked with overseeing all government projects and ensuring they turn out to be fuck-ups.
“Through a combination of poor planning, lack of funding, ignoring experts, and a heavy dose of short-termism, I’m committing to fucking up everything in the same way I fucked up my own portfolio,” she said
Farrugia Portelli’s first act as fucker-upper-in-chief was to appoint hotelier Tony Zahra – who pressured the government into opening everything, and whose hotel was ground-zero for Malta’s second wave – as official fuck-up consultant.
