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An ‘Opinion’ by Dr Michael Zammit, published in MaltaToday 30 May, brilliantly depicted the arrogance and ingratitude of the Nationalist Party. It was this arrogance and ingratitude that caused so many people like myself to revise their political allegiance.
The PN has not only irked AD supporters by its thoughtlessness and insensitivity, but also free-thinking people of every persuasion.
The PN has to learn the lesson that in Europe and in a new millenium, it can no longer cling to the Church to deliver it a political victory.
Its dastardly attack on AD and Arnold Cassola in particular, has misfired and left the PN looking rather pathetic. It should have known that in these days when information is so readily available, to so many people, it was reckless to deploy the abortion canard as a strategic campaigning ploy.
Just entering the words ‘abortion’ and ‘EPP-ED’ into my internet search engine, quickly revealed the Sandbaek report, which showed that the EPP voted almost unanimously in favour of EU funding of abortions in developing countries.
So much for the sanctimonious propaganda of the PN, which forms part of the EPP. I call them ignorant hypocrites for trying this ruse on the Maltese people.
It cost them dearly, I just hope they learn their lesson in good time, before they will have to face the people they let down and angered by their crass stupidity and ingratitude.
The stupid decision to allow the warden company to dispense with registered post in notifying the hapless victims of this iniquitous system so that a private company, close to the PN, can make even more profits, angered more people than the PN think.
When a minister of transport suggest using two hundred buses that are surplus on existing routes, to link neighbouring villages, and nothing happens after repeated promises, people become disillusioned.
When a street lamp is reported repeatedly to the Attard Council, over a period of four weeks, and I do not even get an acknowledgement, people like me will resort to the only avenue open to them, that is voting for a change.
When I get hauled in front of the wardens tribunal at Zejtun, in the heat of July, when I had just been released from hospital where I was treated for a severe heart problem, on a bogus, or trumped up charge, one becomes very angry.
I had not been to Zejtun for over forty years, I informed the Zejtun Council and the Zejtun Police, who very quickly checked on their computer and were able to instantly verify that I had nothing to do with the charge levelled against me, I still had to take a taxi to Zejtun, wearing jacket and tie, only to be told that I can go because it was a mistake.
When I pointed out that this mistake cost me two taxi trips to Zejtun from Attard and a lot of anxiety, and I asked for recompense, I was told that I will have to get a lawyer to make the claim for me.
When one tries ones damnest to bring to the authorities that an obsolete form is sending people on a wild expensive goose chase, and nobody lifts a finger, I do feel the compelling need to get even with the system.
To Dr Gonzi and his government these may be dismissed as trifling little things. But it is the accumulation of these little things that cause a staunch supporter to become utterly disillusioned.
Of course I can go on and on, but it will suffice to say that the shambolic rout the PN suffered, gave me a degree of satisfaction, born out of sweet revenge.
Victor Spiteri
Attard
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