Perhaps it is because I was brought up to appreciate the struggles of a disabled person that, today, I feel angry at the insulting behaviour of the Labour MP Luciano Busuttil and his wife. I'm hardly the only one.

Frankly, I don’t know what is worse – using a blue badge (which gives people with severe disability the right to park in specially reserved spaces) or trying to justify it by saying you can’t wear flat shoes or sneakers. I honestly fail to see how not being able to wear flat shoes compares (even remotely) to being stuck in a wheelchair all the days of your life.

David Thake was right in getting upset with Mrs Busuttil when he called her on Radio 101. His words of anger echo the anger of many who are silent in their homes. Decent, honest people who expect nothing out of this government (or any other government) simply want to live a decent life without the need to beg for what is their basic right. They only expect to be treated with respect and dignity.

Begging under this government has once again become a necessity.

Take the health sector. Chris Fearne, the health minister, announced in his last budget speech that patients with type 2 diabetes will be given free meter strips to check their blood. Has this happened? No.

He also announced that all diabetes patients on the yellow card will switch to the pink card. This will entitle them to free dental appointments and free glasses (amongst other things). Has this happened? Neither.

What is worse, in this case, is that Silvio Parnis, another Labour MP, has been boasting on TV that this Labour government has a social heart and that this measure has been enforced.

Worse still, only this week in parliament, the social affairs minister, Michael Farrugia, was almost prancing with joy while declaring that his government has effected this change (which affects many elderly under his watch).

His jaw dropped when Godfrey Farrugia signalled to him, and to Silvio Parnis, that I was right in my criticism. Not even the instructions for this change to take place have been given yet.

Patients have been calling me by the dozens. They believed Labour MPs and went to the Health Centres and the Diabetes Department at Mater Dei – only to be told that they (the patients) are misinformed and that the respective health departments have NOT been informed of this change.

The sad thing about all this is that some people still genuinely believe that what Chris Fearne says in parliament is actually put into practice. Of course this includes Silvio Parnis and Michael Farrugia. And why shouldn’t they believe Chris Fearne? He is a very respected surgeon – one of only two paediatric surgeons in our country actually.

That last detail raises another interesting point about Chris Fearne.

To date, he has not appointed a paediatric surgeon who could possibly take his place. A huge contradiction? Or a conflict of interest? Fearne is the man who promised his constituents a bigger victory for Labour in the coming election but is keeping his post as paediatric surgeon available for himself. Playing safe, I suppose.

Fearne is now boasting with all of Europe that obesity (particularly, child obesity) is a priority for our country. What he is not telling our fellow Europeans is that we have a bill, which was brought to parliament by Robert Cutajar on behalf of the Opposition, which focuses on healthy life styles with an emphasis on obesity. This bill has passed through parliament in all its stages a year ago but – read this slowly and savour the shamelessness – Chris Fearne is refusing to pass the necessary legal notices to activate this law as it was originally intended.

It is crystal clear to me that our country is run by people who know no shame. They couldn’t care less about persons conditioned by disability, diabetes or obesity. For them, this is all a money-making, corrupt show. And the show must go on...