It was inevitable.
During the recent local council elections, voters did not give the Labour party (53.21 per cent) a win over the Nationalist Party (43.88 per cent) to get back at the Nationalist Party for their unbearable arrogant attitude, which has dominated the scenario regarding local councils with a Nationalist majority.
Their disregarding the PN by not voting or opting to vote Labour had nothing to do with pavements, decayed streets, crumbling buildings, missing street bulbs or dirty roads.
It was their sheer anger at the way the government of Lawrence Gonzi infuriated the people for years on end (him plus the previous government) by refusing to listen, listen, listen to the moans and groans of the Maltese on a national scale.
They have hit below the belt far too often. They have deceived the people while contemplating ways and means of promising what they simply could never deliver.
A 43.88 per cent result in the local council elections means they have lost yet again, for the fourth time in a row. If this is not an indication that the Malta Labour Party is going to win the next general election, I don’t know what is!
A party that remains in power for an interminable number of years gets too big for its boots; they think that nothing and no one can ever outmanoeuvre them.
They do not strive to mollycoddle those who voted them to power in the first place.
When Dom Mintoff lost the general election in 1987, he lost because although it was he who transformed the Maltese from rags to riches, in many aspects like children’s allowances, bonuses, government plots, etc, his dominance exceeded the good he had done.
The difference between the Nationalist government and Dom Mintoff is that the PN never had a vestige of humility in them; they were always austere, wilful and avaricious while Dom Mintoff became domineering with time.
A 43.88 per cent result for the PN in the local council elections together with the loss of the majority in Gzira, Mosta and Xaghra was not just due to stagnated localities but due to one man and one man only, the same man who once stated that a person (meaning Labour leader Alfred Sant) who promises what he cannot deliver is a person not to be trusted (Min iwieghed u ma jwettaqx huwa persuna li ma tistax tafdah).
Who invented the theory about the pot calling the kettle black knew what he was talking about! I have never stepped into a fortune-teller’s house, nor do I plan to, to ask about the outcome of the forthcoming election but it is as clear as crystal that the PN’s poor show on a grand scale as well as a micro one is evidence enough that they will not be voted to power again when election-time comes.
Valerie Borg
MLP councillor
Valletta