Dr Mizzi used it repeatedly during live televised debates, and it soon became one of the battle cries of the Labour Party’s election campaign. They say a week is a long time in politics, and it certainly has been for the Labour Party, the government and, most particularly Dr Mizzi.
The phrase that he used so liberally, and at the time so successfully, has now come back to haunt him, his government and his party. The Nationalist Party has put up billboards, coining the phrase for itself and many have taken to social media to post a multitude of memes involving Panama hats and the ‘shame on you phrase’. It was also used yesterday when Shadow Justice Minister Jason Azzopardi appeared in court to be accused of criminal defamation after former police commissioner Peter Paul Zammit made a criminal complaint against him.
And it seems that the chinks in Joseph Muscat’s once impenetrable armour are beginning to appear. The Prime Minister is standing four square behind both Dr Mizzi and his Chief of Staff Keith Schembri, both of whom were found to possess companies in Panama. Both have said there was no wrongdoing and the Prime Minister took their word for it and said he will not act until he has proof from audits carried out by private firms. However, things are starting to look more and more shaky as it emerges that Dr Mizzi did not even identify himself as a politician when he first attempted to open bank accounts in Dubai and Panama.
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