The situation is now quite absurd.  We are beyond reason, beyond hope and sinking faster than a boulder in the water.  The pressure to endure one fatal attack, one further revelation after another is not something that any people from any civilized country with what is supposed to be a democratic system, should have to suffer. This is evidenced by the falling indexes of Malta’s place on every barometer that matters.

Back in the 2013 election, the people subconsciously formed an opinion, probably manipulated into doing so by outside factors, that Labour were now rehabilitated and ready to be given another chance to govern this country. 

What a colossal mis-conception that was. 

We find ourselves now, besieged not just as a land and a home but as individuals who have no value as law-abiding citizens.  This government in no way, shape or form resembles anything that can call itself a representative of the people, working for the people and of the people.  Whatever oath was taken, was where the election ended and the organization became installed.

The pre-planned alliances with the construction industry, the insidious sale of the BWSC power plant and the LNG scheme, the Thatcher-like enabling of the ordinary man to become an entrepreneur to the detriment of others’ assets, the shunning and instrumentalization of the purpose of the European Union, the blatant arrogance of considering themselves not just above the law but arbitrar of judgments and makers of division, pseudo language of well-being and sympathy towards the workers, allowing the killing of protected birds, is an epic destruction of any decent concept aligned with being in government.  The ideal of service is as obsolete as a typewriter, only re-modelled as self-service.  And with two exceptions, no-one has the courage to own up and stand by their principles. 

Whatever worked in 2017 to bring the people to re-elect this organization is calling for its dues.  The betrayal by those who should have known better was infantile and clownish, becoming nothing more than puppets in the hands of the puppeteer.  Sure, a revision of style and direction was needed but to have gone as far as risking our reputation, our children’s future and in the knowledge that Labour could never be anything but Labour, with all its history of violence, corruption and partisanship, was really a stretch too far of the imagination.

This organization has worked with only one thing in mind.  To exploit the opportunity before it by any means and with no regard for the consequences and the damage inflicted.  The ability to keep locked in, anyone who rushed to join in the bounty of the L-Aqwa Zmien (the best times) by standing by Joseph Muscat, whilst being an opposition supporter, was genius in the historical way.  Not only do, for example, property owners get buried under a barrage of flats and hotels, but they are kept as providers of social housing for the government. 

Last year, a new mechanism by means of Act XXVII of 2018 was wheeled out.  Rather than taking back their constitutional rights and having means to take back their property which had been unconstitutionally deprived from them as was happening, this is the Rent Law that kicks out that judgement and all but ensures the continuation of an unconstitutional law.  This is the way this act works.  Keep the bastards locked in their provision to social housing (dubious cases included) whilst invading their territory by any means.  In the meantime, anyone hoping for social housing today is told they will have to leave if they improve their economic situation. 

Apart from really dis-incentivising people to better their position, it assumes that the state is now the property owner/landlord, with full control.  So, its fine for the government to kick people out but not for the private property owner.  Rather than getting people out of social housing, this organization has created a whole new level of need for it. Maybe when the developer knocks on the remaining doors of houses which cannot be sold by their owners due to protected tenants, then maybe the government will be pushed to act.

We face not only an invasion of territory all around us, but an invasion of workers by wholesale importation whilst exporting our citizenship, our streets, our open spaces, our roads and our air.

We are left with no choice but to see our parents’ and grand-parents’ work be exploited and the result is a social and cultural demolition.  We are now, like God’s people, dispersed and conquered.  The idea of returning and rebuilding the temple is as unlikely as it is remote.

Whether people are really convinced that they want this to carry on, or whether the pipe-dream of the opposition, that fundamentally people will come to their senses, is just a chimera.  Whatever is being done now, it is like launching blobs of bubble bath against a fortress.  Those people who have kept their senses have no means of a unified party to represent them, to judge from the surveys.  It is like the Pope denying sexual mis-conduct in the Church.  The faithful support the Church and continue to be members of it but cannot themselves ignore their opinion on the matter.  Even if they should think the Pope a good man. 

Thankfully, the Church has not held back from acknowledging the problem and tackling it seriously, starting from the highest echelons of power.  Our own Archbishop Charles Scicluna was indispensable in dealing with the injustices and we are seeing the fruit of his work. 

Unfortunately, when it comes to our future, we cannot have the same confidence that everything is being done to make it better and to drive a new spirit and energy into cleaning up our act.

The relentless siege of the economy, the rule of law and institutions, the language of division, the shaming of poor people and honest workers, the illegitimacy of so much that has happened, is like mud. And we are engulfed in it. 

Many sit back and wallow in their success.  They congratulate themselves on having switched sides and becoming a part of the Movement.  Whilst the new valley-hotel or 8-floor block is being built, Maltese workers were shamed by the Prime Minister last week, when he said they should not have to slave in the sun because we can get other third-country nationals to do that job.  When did it become legitimate for the PM to decide what value an honest job has, insulting both the Maltese and the foreign worker by doing so? In any case, a building is not constructed just by masons, but also by engineers, architects, surveyors and trades persons.  Should those people consider themselves not part of the elite now?  Why discriminate against a mason?  So that he can justify the need to import workers to cope with the excessive projects in hand?  Just say so, in that case. Just say that the number of projects is so excessive and of such dimension that we have created a monster which needs to be fed and then make sure that all conditions are equal and they actually have accommodation.  Anyway, many building sites do not have a single Maltese worker on site.

The confusion is out of hand, the scale of deceit is without limit and the sky is set in stone.  All for the sake of meritocracy that lasted all of 1 day, excessive electricity bills that are still robbing the people, a poorly instituted bus servicethat costs much more than it did and a European problem with illegal immigration which fades when looking at the volume of foreigners we now host.  Legitimate gripes but sorely paid for.

The Organisation rules.