Malta’s success under this Prime Minister (3)

Prime Minister for I-don’t-know-how-many-more-weeks-or-months, Lawrence Gonzi, has said he hopes that members of Parliament voting on the no-confidence motion, will base their vote “on the successes” achieved by his government.

I have listed a number of these “successes Roofless theatre which very few agree with; a new, modern parliament which nobody asked for, built right at the entrance to our historical city; City Gate with no gate but just an opening in the bastions; the “bridge to nowhere” at the entrance to Grand Harbour, again, which no one had asked for;

The Arriva fiasco; the BWSC contract in which the Auditor General could see “smoke but not the actual fire” of corruption; the many millions lost on the Fairmount project; countless capital projects which take endless years to complete and end up costing at least double the original estimate; the highest water and electricity tariffs in Europe;

The shameful state PBS has been reduced to – “worse than in the 1980s” – as claimed by Franco Debono; the arbitrary wanton destruction of Sea Malta; Smart City where today, instead of many IT companies – as promised by minister-of-failures Austin Gatt – only a wine-bar has opened to date; the 10 tumoli of land handed on a silver plate to Tecom Investments without Dr Gatt noticing his mistake; and finally, the €500 per week rise which Dr Gonzi and his mainly incompetent ministers gave themselves behind Parliament’s back.

I suppose there is no need to continue. If the MPs vote on the above “successes”, then Dr Gonzi could see a few more of his own MPs voting in favour of the motion!