GUEST POST/We have given ourselves over to a gang of thieves and brigands

This was written by ‘Dire Straits’.

We have given ourselves over to a gang of thieves and brigands. The Labour Party has once more proven itself to be little more than a criminal organisation, and it has formed a government of gangsters, ruling by corruption.

They sort of people who see our countryside as a goldmine to be plundered now, rather than a treasure to be enjoyed by successive generations.

The sort of people who don’t ask a renowned academic to develop a university for them, but a hotel construction contractor to do it for himself, because what drives them is not the pursuit of academic excellence, but the whiff of hard cash.

They are the sort of people who turn off the ‘eternal’ flame honouring our war dead, to save ten grand, but who think nothing of giving away a hundred million to a Jordanian businessman to which some henchman ‘consultant’ introduced them it Qatar or Saudi.

The sort of people who fought hard to keep us out of Europe, but who have forced us into bed with all sorts of unsavoury anti-democrats, from the Azerbaijanis, through the Qataris, to the Chinese.

The sort of people who, despite the protestations of everyone who actually knew what they were talking about, assured us hand on heart that they would build a brand-new power station in two years, and who not only failed to complete it in that timeframe, but to this date have not even broken ground.

The sort of people who sold their soul to every possible interest group before the election, and who now find themselves having to deliver, whether it’s a massive, Russian-owned shooting range in another stretch of virgin countryside, smart meters for the squatters of Armier, a handout of millions of tax euros to the Café Premier owners who then retreat to laugh on their lawns the extensive grounds of their ‘desirable’ homes, or the wholesale dismantling of the outside-development-zone system on behalf of all their contractor friends.

Just because we voted them into power two years ago, these greasy, grubby sleazebags think they own us, groping and abusing us with impunity.

We can’t just lie back, close our eyes and hope they go away. We need to fight back.

We need to resist the worst of their depredations as best we can until the next general election. And we need to work bloody hard to make sure that we put them out on their arse the very first chance we get.

We need to unite behind the alternative.

For those who are still grumbling that Simon Busuttil is weak please take another good, honest look. He has radically changed the line-up of his shadow cabinet, making it younger, fresher and more representative of the country, pushing aside some of the party’s big beasts in the process.

He has taken some horribly hard decisions to start putting the Nationalist Party together again, beginning to repair the terrible financial and administrative mess that he inherited.

Now, instead of allowing some jaded, self-serving parliamentarian to take over as secretary-general, he is promoting another fresh face, an entrepreneur who comes in without baggage, but with a well-earned reputation for competence. Someone who will be there to work for the common good rather than her own constituency interests.

These are not changes a weak man would even try to make.

The people can be tricked, but they will not stay tricked for long. There is a chance of kicking out Joseph Muscat and his gangster government in 2018, but if we are to make it happen we all need to do our bit.

In the meantime we need to be ready to lie down in front of a bulldozer or two at some point.