Talking the talk without however walking the walk

I find it objectionable that a writer like Robert Henry Bugeja (Make Way For A New Political Class, June 29) does not tell readers that he is a Labour Party candidate for the next election. To pose as an objective contributor is nothing short of deceit.

If Mr Bugeja is truly objective he couldn’t but help notice that some of “the many dinosaurs that roam our political arena” are found in the PL. He makes it clear that if real change is wanted, then there has to be a new political class. Does Mr Bugeja consider Labour’s present politicians who served as ministers or MPs in the socialist regimes between 1971 and and 1987 as part of the new political class? He doesn’t say.

One of these former ministers claimed to be unaware when he was minister that if you imported goods from abroad you were supposed to declare them. He has been entrusted by progressive and modern Joseph Muscat to write the Labour manifesto for the next election.

One of Labour’s deputy leaders was a police officer when freedom of association was suppressed during Dom Mintoff’s ruling years. Others were quite happy to sit “on their cumfy parliamentary seats” between 1981 and 1987 while an institutionally corrupt government, aided and abetted by the police, trampled over human rights, allowed violence to became a political tool, framed innocent citizens with crimes they didn’t commit… Need I carry on?

Mr Bugeja has a knack of wrapping up his messages in lovely sounding words when he writes in this paper but shows his true colours when he writes in l-orizzont.

Maybe Mr Bugeja will break the deafening silence ftom Labour’s side about the injustices still being perpetrated today by the continuous use by the party of properties belonging to families and to the state as political clubs. Does it need a new political class to put this injustice to an end? An election of a Labour government will definitely perpetuate such injustice.

But Labour, like Mr Bugeja, seems quite happy to talk the talk without, however, walking the walk. All froth but very little substance.