Keep the government (2)

Unfortunately Alfred Grech's letter was couched in generalities and failed to impress. Maybe he can be more specific about Alfred Sant's "achievements".

"Achievements" that come to mind are the disastrous freezing of Malta's application to join the EU in 1966 and the invention of a nonsensical fantasy called "Switzerland in the Mediterranean".

VAT was removed and replaced by an infinitely inferior equivalent with a different name, which led to the resignation of a very competent Finance Minister. And, of course, there was the huge hike in water and electricity charges.

Later Dr Sant exhorted his supporters to boycott the EU referendum but, to his chagrin, virtually every living person alive voted. Faced with such a fiasco, Dr Sant resorted to dangerous political insanity. Within minutes of the announcement that the referendum results were in favour of joining the EU, Dr Sant threw democracy out of the window and came up with the ominous claim that the MLP had won the EU referendum. This claim was based on a totally phoney calculation, which could only have been done on the back of a bus ticket.

Then, when everything was going wrong once more during the run-up to the 1998 election, Dr Sant came up with the amazing last-minute offer of a three-month tax holiday in a desperate attempt to bribe the electorate. Fortunately for Dr Sant, the hastily cobbled "covenant" has been forgotten by most. The mind simply boggles.

Regrettably there is not much evidence of homework in any of these "achievements". If we don't want a repetition of such absurdities it is clear how we should vote in the next general election.