The people working at The Times today are far too busy positively doing nothing that might necessitate that they be rescued again by ladders from their burning offices as happened 35 years ago.

Prosit. You could not have been more precise.

But then so will Herman Grech, and Martin Scicluna, and Ariadne Massa, and all the hacks and columnists except Ivan Fenech.

Dr. Eddie Fenech Adami showed true leadership. Instead of rallying the PN supporters to retaliate, he called for calm. Notwithstanding that his family was beaten up and threatened, notwithstanding that his family home was ransacked.

If I were in his position, I very much doubt that I would have had his wisdom. I would have probably retaliated with all the means at my disposal.

That is why I was never and will never be a true leader. The PN with all their faults, nobody is perfect always had strong leaders which brought peace and prosperity. That is why I am a convinced PN supporter.

I never asked or even dreamt of wanting any favours from any Party. I never paid any bribes to get any favours from any Party. The little I achieved in life, was through study and hard work.

The moral of the story. Let us not fall into the same trap that the PL set. We should back the Party our choice for ONE simple reason, to want that our Country progresses not only financially, but morally too.

The PN was the Party with a vision, a party that worked to achieve it’s objectives. Could it have done more? Certainly. Did it make mistakes? Yes. But we must always look at the whole picture, it is WE not I that bring about prosperity.

So we must encourage our Party the PN to have a vision to move the Country forward. We must encourage our Party to have a strong social and moral structure, to ensure that nobody is left aside. Politics must evolve, it can unite not divide our small but beautiful island.

This is my philosophy of life. The only three words that the PL came up with but never believed, hence never implemented were – Malta Taghna Lkoll; Meritocrazija; Transparenza. These should not only be slogans but an integral part of any government’s policy.

Thank you.

If the flames from the building of The Times fed by fire accelerants almost reached the Auberge de Castille Mintoff offices that was the only reason why the Malta police fire engines ever made that belated appearance at all.

Lest we forget what the Labour Party desperately would like everyone to forget after running out of lies and excuses to falsify that execrable day in our history under Labour.