Writing this article on the wake of the Mater Dei coming to life is a must. I followed closely the migration programme which was carried out with utmost care, diligently, in order for one thing to follow another.
But constantly fending off Labourite attacks in the media by the ‘unbiased’ station Super One, interviews, and even parliamentary speeches disgusts you. This is what Labour is all about. Go and vote Labour and you get a re-run of The Exorcist playing, rather than a milestone in hospital care in Malta.
It is alarmist and useless propaganda attacks rather than sane advice of a government-in-waiting. After Birzebbuga, Labour cannot stop showing its true colours. These are not mistakes, these are what they are. These are the things that Malta will get, if ever Labour gets the power it dearly wants.
Who knows if the MLP were to dismantle the whole system at Mater Dei? We saw items on Bondi+ that were scary. Interviews by an ex-Labour and ex-Green personality belittling the first operation at Mater Dei, reminded me of Labour times moving closer to North Korea.
The former and aspiring Health Minister, in order to score points, forgot that the same system worked in his short, thank God, time as minister.
Why play on the emotions of people, using health as a weapon? Is Mater Dei only for Nationalists, or will Labour boycott this hospital, with its free service?
The truth is that they cannot swallow it all up. The hospital opened on due date, time was taken to get the things in place, and now that people will have to go there to see their family, to get free medical care in such an atmosphere will see their bubble being burst.
Of all the daily propaganda against the hospital, biased viewers sooner or later will have to use Mater Dei.
It’s a nationalist monument, and, it’s state-of-the-art, as the Labour leader said on a good day, but later turned comments into a re-telling of he Exorcist.
Can you, Mr and Ms Floater trust such leadership? It has tried to play with your past, advised to vote “No” to Europe, advised us to devaluate the lira, was against VAT, and also wanted to remove cash registers. The MLP plays with your present with the Mater Dei story, it plays with the future of SmartCity, saying it’s a speculative project rather a future for your children.
I do not blame floating voters looking to Labour as an alternative. The Labour slogan of being a 20-year-old government could have struck a chord. People will look to the left once again.
Unfortunately for Labour, and luckily for the voter and for Malta, the head turned away from Labour in disgust. These guys are playing around with our lives, they want to go back to the horrible past. The long list of incidents we had under Labour was truly a scene from The Exorcist.
Let’s stop this gloom and doom. Let’s say that we now have a proper hospital, and until the migration plan goes through, and will be set, we can continue to be served excellent and free medical care. Electing a Nationalist Government is paramount to this continuing. Looking to the left will only give you a stiff neck.
After a weekend break next year, the PN will be elected again. The mature voter will, again, choose rightly.
Next time round we will have to look at the rent laws where changes are due. The examples where an obligation of low rent has expired due to death of the tenant, or due to the tenant going into to a home, must be acknowledged. The property should, rightly, return to the owner. Obligations and contracts do have an ending, and fairness should prevail too. Bringing in means testing in this equation is another idea.
Keeping this momentum is vital to Malta, keeping it in safe hands. Let’s continue making Malta better, together.
Robert Arrigo is a Nationalist MP