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Another perspective on the wider Malta/Galizia story that serves as a stark warning to the EU & the U.K. illustrating just how fast a political group can corrupt a European country & that weak institutions can offer no protection against such corrupt power dw.com/en/opinion-mal…
It also shows that such processes can happen almost undetected, the significance the rule of law and the separation of powers has in the European project.

They aren’t added extras. They are essential for the running of a stable democracy.
Whilst Chief of Staff Schrembi £ Tourism Minister Mizzi have already resigned, Prime Minister Muscat announced his resignation but for a future date.

Meanwhile he has installed Nadine Nia, the daughter in law of his long time lawyer, as the magistrate in a Galizia related case.
A bit more on that story here and how a Petition to the EU means that referrals to the CJEU are being made in relation to the failure to secure independence of the judiciary

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Why to vote even in a safe seat.

6 reasons.

I hadn’t realised this until recently. And it would be honourable for Labour supporters to recognise that when they TELL smaller parties (without reciprocating) they should stand down they are also harming their finances.
“In the 1997 election, the seat of Winchester was decided by a margin of 2 votes, so it was literally true that every vote for the winning candidate mattered.”

In 2017 there were less than 500 votes between turning seats from the Tories to more remain parties in a few seats
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Michael Crick asks Labour Party boss 15 TIMES: Why did miners’ union pay your mortgage?

This has always suck in my craw and Lavery’s response is both slippery and bullying and I think Labour has made a terrible terrible mistake giving him power.

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If Lavery wanted MINERS to get money he didn’t have to take their money

1/ to pay off his mortgage

2/. as redundancy when he was going for a perfectly well paid job as an MP.

I’m beginning to think a willingness to con and be conned is at the heart of Brexiters
The original story here.

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Dear me how some Labour acolytes try to set off ridiculous rumours.

This is where Ed was saying LD, if faced with a minority Tory Gov would vote on an issue by issue basis to achieve a #FinalSay.

As would Labour if it wants to survive a GE
NOT voting for PV would be cretinous
What does he think Labour would do?

Sit on their arses and not vote for one and the finances to support it and the essential legislation to shore up our creaking Electoral machinery?

They will abstain?

Of course they won’t. They would be wiped out (& rightly so) in a GE
Ed DAVEY a few days before this interview.

“If either of them form a minority government, as is possible, we will vote issue by issue ... that will force any government to come to the centre to be more moderate.”

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