Where is Labour on electricity bills?

Many have argued that most of the reduced Nationalist Party support is due to the increase in water and electricity bills.

The government took the bull by the horns by responsibly stopping the practice of consumers having their consumption subsidised from our taxes, while having a social conscience and subsidising some 30,000 accounts belonging to people who cannot pay for what is absolutely necessary.

On the other hand, it was hilarious to hear Jason Micallef, secretary general of the Labour Party, repeatedly declare on national television that Labour will reduce the tariffs once elected to govern. During the same discussion programme (June 8), Louis Grech, re-elected Labour Member of the European Parliament, was right to immediately stop the nonsense by the secretary general stating that it is impossible to reduce utility tariffs. The price of oil just cannot afford that luxury!

A week later, Joseph Muscat, the Labour leader, said that he could not give a guarantee that a Labour government would reduce water and electricity tariffs! Barely another week and the same Labour leader, reacting to indignant accusations of political opportunism, stated that it was obvious that he would have reduced the tariffs.

Can Joseph Muscat still justify his claim to a new political season?

Can Labour please get its act together?