Feathers and daggers, facts and fantasies

As a true Maltese I could not let the lines by Douglas Salt (Feathers In The PM’s Cap, June 6) go without a fit reply.

I doubt there has been a Prime Minister who has concocted a bigger mess in such a short time.

The Drydocks was the scourge of the Nationalist Party since the time of the late George Borg Olivier. Once the pride of Malta, it was over the years mismanaged by foreign ċwieċ (idiots) and companies and finally destroyed by the present Prime Minister – given away for a song to a Neapolitan who will make millions out of it.

Air Malta, once the flag carrier for this nation, has been brought to heel by politicians and bootlickers now seemingly intent on destroying it altogether so that low-cost carriers will have a field day.

The power station saga, dripping with alleged corruption and scandal was not mentioned by the correspondent, neither was the VAT scandal that can be apportioned to Tonio Fenech, or the scandal involving JPM Ltd. Are these too feathers in the PM’s cap, or daggers in the heart of Maltese society?

Let us not count the chickens before they are hatched with regard to Arriva – we have yet to see the cost of this new saga.

“The tremendous success of our financial services” has to be seen against the backdrop of the Bank of Valletta Multi Manager Property Fund and the bank’s involvement in the Middlesea fracas in Italy which together have cost the Maltese public in excess of €100 million. And the Finance Minister, the Malta Financial Services Authority and the Prime Minister seem to be dragging their feet in order not to raise a cloud of poisonous dust bigger than Fukushima.

There are more feathers, err daggers, that have not been mentioned like the Prime Minister and his cronies’ honorarium. We have yet to see the consequences in this regard, as we have yet to see the Prime Minister’s action with regard to the divorce issue in Parliament. Will he uphold the people’s verdict or will he be man enough to resign?

Mr Salt needs to see an optician to get him to focus on the facts not fantasies about the Prime Minister.