Muscat and his friends do not like my guts. They’re not particularly keen about this newspaper, either.

Castille employs a man, officially to answer PQs, but who instead spends the day blogging venom while getting a hefty salary paid from our taxes. I’m one of the prime targets. Funny how someone they try to ridicule takes up so much of their working time.

Those who read my articles regularly will know how many times I have written about Muscat’s hubris and how his downfall will one day bring his party crumbling with a loud crash and bang. We’ve had one huge scandal after another. The pressure is really building. Whoever thought it would be so soon?

The medical visas scandal is yet another feather in Castille’s cap. But in discussing it I must tread carefully so as not to use the wrong words. Even the truth can be used against you. I wouldn’t want Neville Gafa to call his lawyer to take action against me or this newspaper.

His lawyer, not so incidentally, is the oh so appropriately chosen ex-police commissioner who had to resign (or was he fired?) because he allegedly copied a police file and passed it to the editor of Malta Today, although he still continues to earn a salary equal to that of the Police Commissioner.

So much has been written about Neville Gafa, the medical visas and the whistleblower! And still there are so many unanswered questions.

I put my first parliamentary on the medical visas issue back in October 2015. My questions (11 in all) were put to Carmelo Abela, Konrad Mizzi and Owen Bonnici. At the time Chris Fearne was still parliamentary secretary for health. None of these men can say that they just got to know about this story now, when my PQs are nearly a year old.

New questions also come to mind.

The Times has published an official notice which, until very few days ago, could still be seen at the A&E Department at Mater Dei Hospital. It was a clear instruction to all staff, particularly Emergency nurses, to call Neville Gafa (24/7) every time they were asked to pick up a Libyan patient from the airport.

Think about that. Since Neville Gafa is not a medical doctor, what authority does he (or did he) have to decide if a patient should be admitted to Mater Dei? This notice is once again proof that a huge irregularity was going on at Mater Dei Hospital. Doesn’t the police commissioner feel that at least this, of all things, should be investigated?

Now Muscat wants to take credit that the police were called in to investigate. Chris Fearne also wants to take credit for being the first to have called in the police. They both want to take credit for being the good guys but, like Macbeth and his wife, they want to wash the stains off their hands.

Both are distancing themselves from the minion who came out denying the allegations after several days of silence by all who could, and should, have known.

This is a very complicated web. The Minister for Health cannot hide the fact that, to date, Gafa is still part of the Health Ministry’s Secretariat. His job title is “Projects Director – Coordination Unit” and, apparently, he is working from Gozo.

Fearne himself said that health projects (namely the privatisation of the Gozo, St Luke’s and Karin Grech Hospitals) are still in the hands of Konrad Mizzi. We must therefore assume that Konrad Mizzi must somehow still be in close contact with the health projects director.

They can try to distance themselves from Gafa but they are tied and bound to him. So much so, he’s still in government employment. None of them can say, “He is not my minion!”