Open and read all the newspapers, excluding the Nazzjon and Il-Mument, and you will see it all.

The government of Lawrence Gonzi is under fire. All those lovers of the environment are crying shame for the way the government is ruining Malta’s natural beauty.

Almost all newspapers recount how the government is being as arrogant as you please because it has a majority of five in Parliament.

Even your opinion writer Daphne Caruana Galizia has stopped “attacking” Dr Alfred Sant. Her articles are now about public behaviour and sex between beautiful people. Daphne Caruana Galizia, who has no reason to shower praise on the prime minister for she can find no fault with the opposition, is writing about matters that have little or no importance.

All government organisations are wailing at how this government has “crucified” us with taxes, surcharges... the full works.

Businessmen and shop owners who should by now be swimming in the profits they made from selling their wares, especially during Christmas, have complained that not all in the world of business is going smoothly. Hotel owners have been whining that they have been thrown into an abyss because there are no tourists.

In a nutshell, these are all complaining that this government is doing nothing but ruining them financially.

And then… And then… election time draws near and God, what a u-turn all these people make. Business starts booming. Newspapers recount over and over again that the black cloud hovering over Malta has been lifted and that the future is going to be much better. And the prime minister starts telling tall tales about how we will finally be seeing the light at the end of that long dark tunnel, that we have been “made” to crawl.

This same government, who has promised a heap but has made us weep, will rant on and on, promising the world and more impossible promises that will never be kept. “Parole, parole, parole” (“Words, words, words”) as Italian singer Mina used to sing.

Dear readers, we need a change. Do we not? The Nationalists have been deceiving us about a better tomorrow for endless years now. Is it not about time that the Maltese showed them that we do not believe them anymore?

Valerie Borg

Valletta