"No regrets. I was right."
Well, we all know by now that Alfred Sant has some kind of mental block that prevents him from acknowledging his mistakes even to himself.
Who can forget the No Regrets pre-electoral interview that partly did for him? Or the post-election grand sulk and swan-song press conference at which he refused questions and blamed his fate on the power of incumbency?
Who can forget that he resigned and came back again ‘popular demand’? Or that he refused to acknowledge the EU referendum result because it didn’t go his way and because people should not be permitted an opinion as to whether they want to be part of the EU when he had been saying for 30 years that the EU is no place for us?
But there are limits. Fourteen years after VAT was introduced, 13 years after he won an election with a promise to remove VAT and then failed catastrophically, 11 years after his CET tragi-comedy helped bring down his government, and three general-election defeats later (to say nothing of the referendum) Alfred Sant continues to insist that he was right. I was right. I was right. I told you so. See?
There’s something very wrong there.
Maybe he thinks that he’s a prophet who was ignored in his own time, and that 50 years’ hence, we will come to see the wisdom of his ways. Fat chance.
Will Alfred Sant please just go away and chat to his chickens?
What a narrow escape we had from this man, even though it looks increasingly like a case of from the frying-pan into the fire, with a souped-up Super One hack gagging to become prime minister when every time he opens his mouth it sounds like a cartoon character is talking.
Last Sunday, It-Torca published an article by Sant in which he protested that VAT is bad for Malta and not suitable for our particular business culture. The article was quoted in The Malta Business & Financial Times yesterday (cutting shown here).
He repeated the exact same things he was banging on about in 1994. He even had the brass neck to speak disparagingly about “those people who have brought us to where we are today”.
Where are we today, Sant? We’re in the European Union, fortunately, and it’s no thanks to you or to Mickey Muscat, that’s for sure.
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Won’t this fly go away?
….and his monologue on Bondiplus, where he refused to be asked any questions. Strange man , strange man
Strange is an understatement.
This is truly a dangerous being…….a so called progressive who continuously questions basic moral values and in the process elevates himself as the sole authority about same. His successor is even worst – if for any reason because values are pondered over hamburgers.Good riddance!
Poor Cassandra, he has all the answers to our problems but no one will believe him.
One of the many (superficial) reasons Labour mentioned against the introduction of VAT was that if America does not have VAT why should we, a puny island, have it. Well, a 2008 presidential nominee, Mike Huckabee, actually supports the FairTax whereby all federal taxes would be replaced by a sales tax. The main reasoning being that tax on income is unjust in principle and punishes the enterprisng, industrious people.
Now one could argue for or against however we now see somebody who after all these years still persists in his mistaken mindset whilst all the world has actually moved on.
“How can the same people who brought us to where we are today, accept the need of action to ease the effects of their own decisions?”
Now, had he said that in1997 I may actually have agreed with him.
And yet everyone still remembers Mr. Mintoff for his military style of governing. My generation will remember and always thank Mr. Dom Mintoff for his help in getting rid of this nutter. Thanks perit.
Yeah, that’s like thanking Stalin for helping to get rid of Hitler.
The most incredible thing is that in his article Sant did not say what tax should replace VAT… as if he never was in power and abolished VAT replacing it with whatever it was…
“What a narrow escape we had from this man, even though . . .”
We DID NOT have a narrow escape from this man! He froze Malta’s application for EU membership with the consequence that Malta ended up joining at least 2 years later and at the bottom of a 10 strong list. Had Malta joined 2 years before it did, the social, economic and financial benefits would have been far greater than having joined when we did. What this man did to our nation is criminal (and sick). Lest we forget!