A tango too late

Reading Joseph Muscat's contribution entitled "It takes two to tango" sent shivers down my spine given the cheek of Labour spokesmen today.

Mr Muscat talks of "a new beginning" in the way things are happening within the parliamentary ranks. He smooth talks on the "first fruits of this new way of doing things which have already been reaped" and goes on to lecture he who made EU membership a reality on how things should be managed at the next IGC.

While such a big change in Labour's mentality is by far an opportunity for praise, the Joseph Muscats of this country and other Alfred Sant's disciples still owe us Maltese citizens an apology. Not for opposing EU membership and pushing forward another option, but for the way they did it for the past 20 years.

Only when Labour spokesmen will muster the courage to make their apology for taking us through so much trouble and hassle will my political soul find peace. Reading them today you would think they had a crash course in "Blairology" overnight to come about wiser as if nothing really happened during those long months in which they fired at anything that appeared in their opposite direction. They owe it to the country but mainly to those Labour supporters who chose otherwise. They owe it to those who where pushed to vote PN by Dr Sant's charades of March 9.

It is then, and only then, that a tango for two can again be played. Otherwise, it will only be another act of another scene in Labour's tragic tale of EU relations as authored by Dr Sant.