When will people say enough is enough? – Readers Letter

“What I find really hard to understand in Malta is the way people adhere so rigidly to party politics no matter how ineffective their party of choice is. The Maltese people are paying through the nose for things like heating oil, gas, petrol, food, medicine, even school uniforms to mention but a few and yet they continue to support the same fools who are imposing these hardships on them. In order to soften the blow the Government give the people a raise in pay of just over one Euro a week whilst giving themselves a raise of 500 Euros a week. Is that fair? Of course not but the diehard supporters still hit the papers with support for their beloved Government.

Not content with destroying the countryside with their continual building programmes in support of their developer friends they decide to spend over 100 Million Euros on a new Parliament building, a futuristic building on stilts designed by a foreigner who obviously like the Government has no regard for the Baroque nature of the city. Valletta has a glut of beautiful old palaces just crying out to be restored to their former glory but they are left to fall into ruin whilst yet another extravagant monstrosity is built. And still the supporters back their beloved Government.

The old City Gate which no-one liked has been removed under this same scheme but rather than restore it to the status it deserved as the entrance to Malta’s capital it has been replaced with a hole! The people have been crying out since the end of the war for their beautiful old opera house to be rebuilt. Now instead they are getting an open air theatre. No doubt the stars of the world will be queuing up to come to that. And still they have the support of the people.

The transport system from roads themselves to the buses using them have always been a problem in Malta more so for the local people who have to put up with them on a daily basis. To that end has the transport reform worked? Well you know the answer to that, the new buses are a bigger nightmare than the old ones were and the roads are still a joke which wash away every time you get heavy rain. But the people still support their beloved Government.

On Wednesday MEPA announced a new draft environmental permits system to improve the regulatory framework applicable to industrial activities of environmental significance. The timing for this was really good given that the day before the same MEPA approved the use of heavy fuel oil for the Delimara power station! Anyway it is just more words from an authority which has shown in the past, remember the dumping at Dwejra, that they cannot carry out effective enforcement.

The question is just how much do the PN have to mess up before people say enough is enough?”

James A. Tyrrell,

N. Ireland.