It was Dingli's turn today to get the Labour Sunday roadshow. The crowd of party supporters did not all fit in the rather small club and many stayed out on the street.

The meeting was remarkable in one way at least: in all his speech, party leader and prime minister Joseph Muscat never once referred to the Konrad Mizzi case that has been dominating in the media these past days.

On the contrary, Dr Muscat spoke at length about the Beppe Fenech Adami case that Labour came up with to counteract the media pressure on Konrad Mizzi.

Dr Muscat even gave a short version of the case. He began by saying Dr Fenech Adami owned land, pointedly refraining from speculating how he got it, adding 'good luck to him'.

This was a large tract of land overlooking Wied id-Dis in Gharghur, one and a half times the square in front of Parliament, or 700 sq m.

In 2006, this area was included in the Rationalisation Exercise but, Dr Muscat claimed, the line demarcating the newly developable land from ODZ was not a straight line, as one would expect, but a zigzag line.

Then Cabinet decided that the new area allowed only two floors but three days later, a specific exemption was made for Dr Fenech Adami's house.

The PC application in this case (as in many similar) had been made by Mepa. As a result of this change in its designation, the value of the land in question exploded upwards.

Dr Muscat referred but did not go in details, that Dr Fenech Adami's pool is not as was permitted but he added that the  illegalities on site are such that they cannot be sanctioned or pardoned with the payment of a fine.

At this point a member of the audience could be heard shouting "Waqqa. Waqqa" (Pull it down).

Dr Muscat added Dr Fenech Adami is a hypocrite for he recently complained the university at Marsascala will have beautiful views when the person who has the most beautiful views in all Gharghur is Dr Fenech Adami himself.

Earlier, the prime minister spoke about the growth that has been registered in Malta - a 6.3% growth that the previous PN administration obtained only in three years whereas this has been obtained in just one year. This government is decidedly pro-business as he had told the PES leaders in Paris some days ago.

Dr Muscat also spoke how unemploymemnt has been brought down from the 5000 mark where it was. The government is also battling against precarious employment. He claimed this govbernment is following Dom Mintoff's maxim that jobs must be found for the Maltese and also for foreigners. However, jobs must not be offered to foreigners when there are Maltese able to do the job.

In the coming future, men and women will get to earn the same wage for equal work, and a start has already been made with the changes to the maternity leave rules.

Then he attacked Dr Simon Busuttil, not forgetting to wish him happy birthday (Dr Busuttil's birthday was on Saturday).Dr Muscat claimed Dr Busuttil was threastening jobs in Malta when he attacked the Gozo new hospital and the refurbuishing of St Luke's. He derided the Oppositiion for the fact that one of its MPs, Professor Albert Fenech, will be working in the new hospital in Gozo which was attacked by Dr Busuttil.

In the coming days he will be leading a delegation of businessmen to Lebanon and Jordan for, just as President Obama will be doing by visiting Cuba, he (Dr Muscat) goes anywhere from where he can get business for Malta.

Dr Muscat also spoke about Toni Abela's rejection by the European Court of Auditors. While the previous speakers, Chris Agius and Roderick Galdes had also mentioned Dr Abela and expressed solidarity with him, Dr Muscat went one further. In his time as an MEP, he had suppiorted the PN government because outside Malta we must all act as Maltese above all. He had thus supported the Louis Galea, Josef Bonnici, John Dalli and Tonio Borg candidacies. Toni Abela will continue to offer his services to Malta.

Finally, Dr Muscat touched on the issue of security. He attended last week a restricted meeting for the leaders of France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Commission representative and had spoken about Libya. There is now a danger that the old migrant route from Libya to Europe be re-eopened and in fact 1,000 had crossed over last week, but went on to Italy.