The last two elections for the European Parliament and local councils have discredited the present government in a big way. It is no use for the Prime Minister to play down the kick in the backside administered by the people. It is easy to find a hundred excuses why people have lost faith in his administration of the country. Many knowledgeable authors have explained the reasons why the people have turned against it. There is a long list of injustices that are constantly brought up that are just not addressed by Dr Lawrence Gonzi. He has a habit of sweeping aside all criticism and carry on as if no one has protested.
He has been told time and again that he is surrounded by a gang of scoundrels whose only interest is making themselves richer at the expense of the people. And yet Dr Gonzi repeats that he has a programme to follow as if he is living on the moon not in Malta. Scandal after scandal gets splashed in newspapers and yet he will continue to slink away smoothly like the proverbial snake.
We have had scandals galore in the last fifteen months, and yet the status quo is retained. He is now being attacked by his own backbenchers and yet he continues to sink in the mire that has been created for him. Is it not time for something to be done to recover some semblance of honesty in Parliament? It seems to me that the power of ministers must somehow be curtailed. It is no longer acceptable for a minister to choose the most expensive tender for a power station, a power station that will increase pollution just because the tenderers had a powerful pimp since well before the tender was mooted.
It is no longer acceptable for the minister to inflict huge increases in the cost of water and electricity with the excuse that the cost of oil has increased, when everyone knows that the cost of oil has gone down drastically. All over Europe the cost of electricity is going down and governments watch over closely the costs to leave more money in people’s pockets. Not so in Malta. Here we do things differently, in fact the opposite. And yet the ‘all powerful minister’ announces the expenditure of €70 million to install intelligent meters – it would have been better to spend nothing and replace himself with an intelligent minister, one that respects the people. Dr Austin Gatt will go down in history as the most arrogant and selfish minister we have ever had and the sooner we investigate his actions the better for Malta.
For all this Dr Gonzi is to blame – he has declared time and again that it is his prerogative to choose the Cabinet. Well what is he waiting for? Or is he impotent against some ministers’ stranglehold? It is time those backbenchers stop making stupid noises and take action.
It is time that they come out in the open and stand up to be counted. The group should stand up in parliament and strike out at the injustices that are perpetrated every day. Is it time we had another party? Is it time we had a group of honest people to run the country?
The patience of the people is running out and nobody wants a return to the violence of 1981 – but there is a limit to everything.
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