Cases Labour would like voters to forget

Hearing the Leader of the Opposition and his acolytes one would get the impression that the Labour Party's tenure in office was a shining example of a perfect government. They have the solutions to all our problems and are a pure breed of administrators. They forget that their past is always shadowing them.

As expected MEP Joseph Muscat could not help not joining his leader in his smear campaign against Minister Jesmond Mugliett (July 9).

In his insolent opinion he failed to mention that the Minister only just reminded the Transport Authority of a precedence which took place in 1996 under the Labour government. This is to shelve the discharges pending the outcome of the Presidential pardon. In actual fact the then Labour government had reinstated the person convicted of bribery after a Presidential pardon and he is currently working with the Transport Authority. This is only one case which Mr Muscat and his ilk would like us to forget. There are other similar cases which went unnoticed during the 22 months of Labour government. Among them was the employment with the WSC of a former police inspector who was convicted by our courts of, among other things, torture of persons held at the police depot. I can also mention the release of prisoners, among them convicted murderers.

The only fault I find with the minister is that he remained too much on the defence. He should have gone on the attack and published a list of the horseplay performed during Labour's 22 months of government. Then we would wait and see what Mr Muscat and his Labour clique have to say.