Saviour Balzan: The Taxpayer-Funded Viper Attacking Mintoff

Saviour Balzan’s latest Sunday rant wasn’t journalism.

 

It was a calculated attack on Dom Mintoff, a political giant whose shadow still terrifies Malta’s self-appointed moral police.

 

 

 

 

Balzan claimed Mintoff “shattered the rule of law” and “increased violence.”

 

This from a man who built an entire career sucking up to whoever holds the purse strings at that moment.

 

A man who switches principles the way others switch shirts.

 

A man who made hypocrisy not a flaw. but a profession.

 

Expecting honesty from Saviour Balzan is like expecting clean water from a sewer. He insults, he smears, and then hides behind the word “editorial,” pretending to be above the political mud he swims in every day.

 

Balzan is not a journalist. He is a political mercenary with a pen. Labour have known this, yet remained silent.

 

 

 

 

 

The Real Outrage: Labour Ministers Are Still Paying Him

 

Several Labour Ministers publicly condemned Balzan for attacking Mintoff.

 

Good.

 

But let’s be honest: their outrage means nothing if, behind the scenes, they continue funding this viper.

 

Because while some ministers write dramatic Facebook posts condemning Balzan, others are busy:

 

• giving him consultancies,

 

• renewing his contracts,

 

• and placing him on PBS, Malta’s public station, paid for by public money.

 

What kind of political logic is this?

 

How can Labour condemn Saviour Balzan on Sunday and then sign his cheque on Monday?

 

How can anyone claim to protect Mintoff’s legacy while financing the man who spits on Mintoff’s name?

 

This isn’t just weakness. This is political self-harm.

 

 

 

 

 

A Parasite Thriving Off Labour’s Indecision

 

Saviour Balzan survives because Labour Ministers allow him to survive.

 

They feed him platforms.

 

They feed him contracts.

 

They feed him relevance.

 

In return, he attacks Labour exponents, Labour history, and Labour values,  because that’s what Saviour Balzan has always done. The moment he stops attacking Labour, he loses his persona, his audience, and his only strategy: shock for survival.

 

Saviour Balzan is one of the few in Malta who manages to insult Labour while being paid by Labour.

 

Not because he’s strong, but because too many in the party are terrified of saying NO to him.

 

 

 

 

 

When Balzan Calls Me a “Jihadi” — I Wear It Better Than He Thinks

 

Balzan once called me a “jihadi in politics.”

 

Good.

 

I’d rather be a jihadi, direct, focused, unafraid of confrontation,  than a political prostitute like him.

 

Unlike Balzan, I do not sell loyalty. I do not bend depending on who pays me.

 

I do not hide behind editorials pretending to be neutral while attacking the same people who finance my career.

 

Balzan’s journalism has become nothing more than a desperate cry for relevance. The voice of a man who knows his credibility is collapsing and that the public sees through the façade.

 

 

The Time Has Come for Labour to Choose

 

If Labour ministers truly believe that Saviour Balzan’s attacks on Mintoff are unacceptable, then they must finally show it in action, not words.

 

No more:

 

• consultancies,

 

• TV shows,

 

• “advisory roles,”

 

• or taxpayer-funded cheques.

 

 

 

 

You cannot claim to defend Mintoff’s legacy while paying the man who desecrates it.

 

You cannot denounce Balzan’s attacks while keeping him in business.

 

You cannot call out hypocrisy while enabling its biggest practitioner.

 

 

 

Stop Feeding the Viper

 

Saviour Balzan will continue attacking Labour for as long as Labour continues paying him.

 

It’s that simple.

 

If Ministers want to defend the movement, defend Mintoff’s legacy, and defend Labour’s dignity, the first step is obvious:

 

Stop financing the viper.

 

Stop sponsoring the mercenary.

 

Cut off the hypocrisy at its source.

 

No political family should ever pay someone to insult its own leaders. And no Minister should give oxygen to the man who spits on the roots of the movement they claim to represent.