I managed to see some clips from Muscat's speech at Bormla yesterday.
Far from the "united Malta" and "let's forget the past" of his pre-election speeches, he's now back to calling the "suldati tal-azzar" (soldiers of steel) to prove their mettle. Emotions are the only thing he can bank on as a year of gaffes and rising unemployment has done little to show where his supposed "positive energy" is being used, except in finding ways to fill-up the inner circle's and the Labour Party's pockets. I amaze myself at how Muscat has the gall to accuse others of being "stuck in the past" when he has been doing all his best to take us back to it. Thank God that membership of the European Union holds him back from further excesses.
The European Union membership. Yesterday, the same Muscat who 10 years ago was urging us to vote against it, who warned us it would doom our country, ruin our economy and lead to - horror-of-horrors - same-sex unions, was actually saying that it has essential for us to now have "better qualified teachers, technological tools, well-equipped schools". "This is the European sense the people chose ten years ago and which we celebrated yesterday and tomorrow."
Yes Joseph Muscat. We did choose it and we did celebrate it. But certainly not thanks to you. You were fighting tooth-and-nail to ruin our aspiration for this "European sense". With hindsight you seem to be admitting you were wrong. But it's foresight which we needed then, and it's foresight which we need now. And it's this foresight and pre-emption which this government seems to be severely lacking. From the sale-of-citizenship-scheme to Chris Packham's arrest.
Yet Joseph is calling for "the soldiers of steel" to vote for Labour in the MEP elections to show how grateful they are for his government's work. Go on soldiers of steel. Show Joseph how grateful you are that you can now collect your free medicines with priority thanks to the new Labour Club of Your Choice scheme. Show Joseph how grateful you are for the very big surprise, the much expected good news, that he is going to decrease the price of petrol he himself had increased just a few weeks ago.
After all, that's what the MEP election is all about, isn't it?
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