In his MaltaToday column, Raphael Vassallo today let totally loose about Ministerial culpability and the culture of resignations, which some collection of idiotic gits are trying to entrench into law. Just like you can’t outlaw racism, simply say that it is unfounded, wrong and frankly, goddamn stupid, you can’t legislate (or at least shouldn’t) as to when a person has to resign. If anything, we can see just how trustworthy and honourable they are when they fuck up and insist on not vacating their seat, even if it embarrasses them, their leader and their party.

If you haven’t read the article yet, I suggest you do. But enough of this, I wanted to say something else and which Raphael reminded me of. It’s about these goddamn senior civil servants who head these departments and agencies. A lot of stuff has been said about them, ranging from your typical blue eyed boy accusation to the more serious allegations that the alleged nepotism in place locally has placed people who know a big fat fuck all in positions of extreme power. I’m not going down that road, I’m just going to say what I expect from these people, be they whomever they may be.

When it comes to the people who head up large governmental agencies or important bodies in this country, I don’t actually give a shit if they’re colourful characters, prone to being verbose, arrogant and condescending and for having absolutely no public relations skills. Nor do I give a shit if they’re paid a bomb, and I know that some of them are, and one of them in particular compared his pay to a car in that if “you want to buy an expensive car you have to pay for it”.

And again, although I see the inherent problem within, I do not actually care if they have links to the political parties, the construction magnate, the medicines cartel and what have you, even though these links are not conducive to the most desirable of positions.

Uncharacteristically for me, I don’t even give a toss as to whether these good people are idiots, complete Neanderthals with a single digit IQ or inbred fucks with 11 toes and a sub standard chromosome count. No, even this doesn’t affect me.

No, you see, I wouldn’t actually care about any of the above, scandalous as that may seem to anyone who’s reading, as long as what they’re tasked to do is done. Period.

Is that so wrong? Maybe. Fact is this; the only thing I care about is that these highly paid, mandatorily respected individuals do their job, do it well and cease any talk of ‘European standards’, ‘state of the art‘, ‘avantgarde’, ‘forward looking’ and  until what they call their ‘remit’ works and works well. And by works well, I do mean works well, not ‘worked up to a second stage of testing where it broke, but we wrote the User Guide and Press Release anyway.‘ You know who you are.