Their followers have been led to believe there’s another half living at their expense, now called the elite within the ‘Partit tal-prim ministru’. In real economic terms, this mentality is suicidal.

Ironically, and on a similar note, latest statistics show there are over 300,000 vehicles clogging the roads. The task force, although a risk, may uncover some interesting facts related to mobility, and that public transport isn’t just about ecology.

Is Labour going to blame the Nationalists for this as well? It shows no sign of considering the individual’s responsibility regarding today’s major hurdles to evolving criteria of citizenship.

Nor is it clear what controversial decisions is it going to take regarding ‘development’. The latest jibe at the financial services sector unearths an anachronistic attitude to the idea of work, value and its footrpint.

And yet, certain ‘greens’ prefer this cheap game. Thanks to this sham of an opposition, we’re losing out on the real dialogue.

This is the heart of the matter.

And to put things more in context, that is why we cannot risk having Muscat running the country in 18 months’ time.

Things will not change in 18 months’ time. They can only get worse.

I’m not in Malta at the moment and it is very clear what is worrying the people. It is not buses, of course. But it is whether they will survive economically to see another year.

This is the heart of the matter and only in this manner can we really put things into perspective by remembering that a shorter bus ride home from work assumes having a home and a job.

It’s not that way in most of the Western world (it is not like that in most of the other world).

So, let’s not take anything for granted because what we take for granted is what we can so easily lose.

The opposition is not aware that these issues are relevant. Their own TV station reported the G20 meeting that focussed on the Euro crisis as “ahbarijiet ta’ barra”. The few seconds devoted to that headline were squeezed in between longer reports about a rise in the price of pork (10 Euro cents PER KILO) and Red Touch Family Weekend.

[Daphne – Well, you would know about that, wouldn’t you. The big question being, of course, why you voted for the friends of the Soviet Union in Malta for all that time.]

It should tackle the abused welfare state and relieve the massive burdens on the tax payer.

It should shrink the idle, unproductive civil service made up of a working population who spend more time looking at their watch to check their break, than actually rendering a service or attending seminars.

Government should curb the housing subsidies and benefits for the multitude of unmarried mothers with unknown fathers.

It should not have dished out 50 million liri to the dry docks employees or the millions to the bus contractors when they were made redundant. Throwing money at problems does not solving them, it creates larger ones such as a widening deficit.

What we have at face value is not the deficit.

We never seem to take into account the untold millions we still owe to our road contractors and pharmaceutical companies which continue to fuel our hungry health service.

Handing out benefits secures a power base for any government and while it makes economic sense to lubricate the economy, we have to understand what is sustainable and what is not.

We have to understand that the real working class is subsidizing indolence and that the days of the feel good factor should be over but yet we continue to chose to live in a fantasy with an opposition still mind on its Marxist ideology of glorifying the working class reminiscent of the days of Lenin and his October revolution.

We want a shorter bus ride, on an airconditioned bus with a bus stop outside our front door and another one beside our desk at work.

Moreover, why do we have to pay for the inconvenience of having to travel to work?

Public transport should be free.

So should water, electricity, medicines, the health services, a Coby steak at weekends and a once-a-year holiday abroad.

John Dalli can advise Anglu on the feasibility of all this on record.

When we end up in Greek waters we will recall Joseph Cuschieri from Dusseldorf to head a government of technocrats to sort out the mess.