In comments under his letter headed Empty Talk In Politics (September 27) on timesofmalta.com, Eddy Privitera wrote: “Don’t you know that electoral promises are to be found in the electoral manifesto? And this manifesto covers the whole five-year term the PL government has received the mandate to govern and implement those promises?”

Many, including Labour voters in the last election, are by now already aware that the PL’s major pre-election battle cry of Malta Tagħna Lkoll (Malta for all) applies to a clique, to friends of friends and to relatives (including ministers’ relatives). Apart from this gimmicky promise, I suggest that Privitera go through the PL’s manifesto and he will find a lot of PL electoral promises which have been turned upside down in the past six months.

For a start, he should reread the PL’s electoral manifesto starting with section 3, page 39; section 4, page 52, article 14; section 4, page 55, article 38; section 5, page 60, article 7; section 5, page 62,article 20; section 5, page 63, article 27; section 6, page 71, article 16; section 17, page 153, article 7; section 19, page 167, article 28; section 20, page 171, article 1.

These are only the tip of the iceberg. I can supply him with tens of others should he wish to.

The above quoted articles are not electoral promises, which have, so far, been broken by the Labour government, because I understand and appreciate that an electoral manifesto covers a whole legislature.

These were promises that have been acted upon but in reverse to what was actually written in the PL’s electoral manifesto.

I would therefore like to ask: who in his or her right senses can take the correspondent’s empty comments seriously?