The local council elections of this last weekend have confirmed that the PN is fast losing its popularity, if any further confirmation was necessary.

With Labour getting 53 per cent of the votes and the PN getting only 44 there is no amount of analysis, studies or arguments to justify or excuse this loss and those who are responsible should resign outright. Saying they accept the responsibility for this debacle is arrogant to say the least. Their only course of action is to resign and without any further delay.

To hear an MP, no less, blaming the people for not understanding what the PN in government is doing, is patronising and is only going to continue pushing people away from the party. But then that is arrogance again.

Analysing the result is the stalling ploy of the PN speakers and we will now have another show nominating a committee of posers to study and then tell the rest of the party what is obvious, adding that the report will not be made public. Perhaps this time, they will not tell the people they are commissioning this study so that, at least, they will not have to tell everyone that they are not publishing it.

The leadership of the party is not doing any politics. It is simply defending its own interest forgetting that the main and principal aim of a political party is to get elected to carry out the policies of that party. The leadership is, today, evidently made up of people who do not really have the interest of the party at heart but their own.

Had they really loved the party they would make way to those who are evidently more up to it than they are and perhaps in these last remaining three years, the party in government will be able to do that u-turn which will be applauded by all instead of the many u-turns done so far that have been losing it votes.

C. Borg

MOSTA