From Dr J. Zammit Tabona

In political science the ruling class is elected to serve the people and not to ruin their good style of living and it is in this light that development here is fully considered as unsavoury treatment; by analogy, much like the savage treatment meted out to the asylum-seekers we regretfully read about: a poor substitution for protection, indeed!

Surely, once the Sliema local council is against the idea of any development and the residents, who are dead-set against it as well and are in full unison with the council, and the area is public property, it would be the acme of folly for the authorities to go against the current with open eyes, blatantly against the wishes of the people.

There is certainly no national interest here, and one can easily see that the hurt will be deeply felt; and felt far beyond the limits of effrontery. Unfortunately, not all the heavy investors in the area are Etonian-trained in their approach to things and irresponsible decisions would be inviting irresponsible repercussions – for the general feeling, one notices, is “whatever next” – detrimental without a doubt to gracious living and to the very notion of good taste.

J. Zammit Tabona

ST JULIAN’S