Just when horrific details have emerged about the faulty concrete found throughout Mater Dei Hospital, which had cost Maltese taxpayers anything from €600 to €700 million, Simon Busuttil and his motley crew had a brainchild! Why not divert attention from the Mater Dei "state-of-the-art hospital" scandal by calling on the many thousands of PN foot soldiers to descend on Zonqor in order to defend this God-forsaken area, which a PN government had once considered as a possible location for a rubbish-dump, in polite terms "a landfill", as well as a possible site for a reverse-osmosis plant, and draw attention to a government which wants to turn a small part of it into the new American University of Malta campus, which would inject €70 million a year into Malta's economy, particularly that of Marsascala and the south of Malta, and create 400 jobs and a lot more?

And so, to encourage his foot soldiers to turn up in huge numbers, Simon Busuttil succeeded in convincing MP Marlene Farrugia, who now, more than ever, I consider more as an "independent" MP than a PL one, to attend and also to address the multitudes that were expected to descend on Zonqor. Transport for the PN army was provided from around the island. Nothing was left to chance in order to force the Prime Minister to concede defeat and give up his plans to bring so much-needed economic progress to the Marsascala area and the South of Malta

Alas, Simon Busuttil's dream of using Marlene Farrugia as bait to attract huge numbers of PN supporters to Zonqor came to an abrupt end when he saw just around 500 PN diehards turning up when the PN has at least 900 councillors besides many more in sectional committees alone!

And yet, Simon Busuttil believes he can stop the AUM project from being realised in any part of Zonqor. No wonder I keep repeating that this man is not fit for purpose.

Eddy Privitera

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