May I kindly suggest a more just title to your column

… To stop the Maltese slaughter of wild birds.

Birds are wild and thus by definition do not belong to anyone but it’s unfortunately our. Maltese, actions that we need to own up for, in front of ourselves first and the rest of the world.

So what? Haven’t we been there before in the 70s and 80s to our great misfortune?

Yes sure, and who is stopping Muscat. If people are still in a trance and we will know this for sure after the MEP elections, then nothing will stop him to block anything that does not please him.

He is already acting in a dictatorial manner by steam-rolling over one and all. Furthermore in all probability he has his hands tied by the hunting brigade.

In the circumstances he will probably avoid the referendum, giving one thousand and one reasons – read excuses – to convince his followers that acting like a strong man – i.e. dictator – is sometimes necessary.

During the PN times we were always hoping that more drastic measures would be taken, as was actually the case, progressively, such as the imposition of a 50 euro fee for each hunter to hunt in during Spring, more policemen on the hunting beat etc. But the first thing that joey did was to retract the 50 euro fee, thus losing out on some 250,000 euros every years, while hunters went on a bird-killing rampage.

Muscat is testing how far he can go with a nation of lemons.