WHY LABOUR’S ASCENDANCY HAS BECOME THE VOTERS’ DECLINE

by a Blog Reader

When the Labour government tells you that it’s doing something to help the citizens, run for the hills. Labour’s leadership is a hedge fund aided by big business which amply rewards those at the top. This is how villas spring out of nowhere in the ministry of politics. Ministerial salaries by themselves cannot support such flagrant wealth. There is no other profession in Malta which generates so many villas in such a short time. Most ministers don’t last long and must acquire their ill-begotten gains and their optional building permits before the window slams shut.

To understand how Labour ministers undermine the people, take the case of Minister Zrinzo meeting the building contractors this past week so that insurance policies would from now on cover their fatal accidents. This was portrayed on the mass media as evidence of the government caring about the citizens. In reality, no building contractor was ever driven to bankruptcy by the estate of the deceased. However, take a close look at who was invited for the meeting. Apart from two building contractor associations, Zrinzo invited the Malta Insurance Association and the Insurance Brokers Association who smelled a fistful of money in the new scheme. With the contractors and the insurance companies partnering together in their business endeavours, victims will no longer fight just the building contractor’s lawyer for compensation. Instead the victims will have to fight the insurance lawyer as well since insurance companies are reluctant to pay out damages. It will no longer be Joe Citizen against the other side’s lawyer, but against the insurance’s lawyer as well. The legal hill has just become a mountain to overcome. Napoleon warned that God is on the side of the big artillery. Pity Joe Citizen having to take on the mightier and more powerful.

Also, this past week, we were informed that Malta with a couple of other Mediterranean countries has asked the EU to discard compromise (“ma fadalx iktar ħin għal kompromessi”) and take immediate action about climate change in the Mediterrenean. The goal is of Herculean proportions. It’s no longer to stop climate change. Instead, what Malta is asking for is to reverse climate change (“jreġġħu lura l-effetti tal-krizi tal-klima”) back to the good old days without defining the critical year or years when the weather was great. So go ahead EU and impose on us and other Mediterranean countries an iron clad treaty. No room for compromise. What will be the outcome if the EU were to do so? If the EU could have its way, as Malta is begging it do, it will seek emission reduction targets such as by limiting when you may drive your car and switch on the air conditioner. The EU would also force the Maltese government to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. No more subsidised energy. The EU has made no bones about this and the Maltese government knows it. Under the mantra of sustainable transport the Maltese will be forced to walk and cycle more. Not for exercise purposes, but to save the environment from car pollution. The EU will also dictate reforestration programs, taking over who dictates Malta’s ODZ.

It’s amazing how a government representing a free people on this tiny island would beg unelected European bureaucrats to dictate our life. Increasingly I suspect that the left hates its people and would do anything to destroy everything that has sustained us, from the family to faith, to create an opening for a new life that nobody is able to define, much less justify. It’s like extremists in the gay community asking the court to impose punitive laws that strangle our free speech and the right to bring up our children in line with our cherished values. Their grooming and gay conversion programs under the guise of education compromise our children’s upbringing. Maltese citizens are under attack from within and outside the country. And the Labour government asks for more pressure, actually firm orders, from outside.

Joe Citizen ran up the hill, looking behind him at the mess he was leaving behind. The country had gone to pieces and he gave up on salvaging anything. The sky drew nearer. Once he arrived on the hill, there was no food or water to sustain him. He walked across the hilltop and went down on the other side of the hill. When he arrived at the bottom he realized that he was still in Malta and Labour was still in government. There is no escape, he reasoned. The island was too small. He was Labour’s problem but the corrupt ministers couldn’t care less.