Jason Azzopardi asked Robert Abela how much money the prime minister’s office spent on public relations and communications consultants since Labour came to power in 2013.

The details follow:

2013: €8,000
2014: €49,000
2015: €99,509
2016: €109,614
2017: €124,917
2018: €197,697
2019: €234,636
2020: €126,936
2021: €98,796

All of the money spent since 2015 amounts to a lot of money. But notice how the deeper in stinky shit the government was the more public money they spent on perfume.

In 2019, as he desperately tried to survive, Joseph Muscat went on a positive spending spree.

But all the perfumes of Arabia …