New beginning... towards mediocrity

It is our right and our duty to cast our vote so that together we ordinary people can determine who will be sitting in the House and on which side they sit. In other words, the next five years of Malta's and our own prosperity depends on how we each use our vote. We must filter through the partisan ping-pong of accounts of action or lack of action so that we can decide intelligently which party is able to bring about greater development within our social and economic sectors.

Certainly the vote should be cast according to whom you believe could best represent you in the hot seat of Parliament and not to settle a score for some disappointment or grudge borne over the past legislature. Election day is our opportunity to further our best interests, that of our family and also that of our dear island.

Irrespective of whether all our personal expectations of a Nationalist government have been met, it would be reckless for us to fail to acknowledge the government's ardour in the past years.

While Dr Sant screams Mandra Malta, we are reaping the benefits of so many governmental projects - the average family has certainly seen the value of the investment in education and in Mater Dei; foreign investment is already providing highly paid positions to Maltese workers; we are also doing well under the European stars.

All of this despite the Opposition's relentless nagging, barrage of allegations and prophesies of terror.

We islanders of Malta have been scientifically found to be among the happiest, yet for the opposition we are in the state of mess and we need a new beginning. If we do, where will our New Beginning take us exactly?

Labour claims that this new beginning will reduce the burdens of the fuel surcharge and taxes. Quite a foggy start, with less taxes in the coffers how could the country pay its fuel bill? Perhaps we will be chasing a bowser of the scarce resource as we did for water in the 1980s.

The opposition pledges this, that and the other, pulling any trick it can think of out of its hat. It is indeed sad if we, an intelligent, educated, generally happy, public, can be duped towards such a fuzzy New Beginning which could really be the road to mediocrity.