The Times has been accused before of not being quite fair in its treatment of the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party and its editorial of July 31, and others before it, prove it.
The Times uses rather intemperate language about the PL, no adjective is too strong to describe the PL. But it treats the PN with kid gloves. Is it afraid that the PN leadership will censure it if it refers to them in the same strong and offensive language that The Times uses for the PL?
For instance, it says that the PL is “now sinking in a morass of gutter politics” but it does not back up this disgraceful charge. With the Prime Minister abusing democracy as if there is no tomorrow, all The Times says of the PN is that it is “too internally distracted”.
The “problem” for the Prime Minister is that all he faces is just a “problem”! And the situation is “messy”. Is that all The Times can say about the PN and the abysmally low level to which it has taken politics?
All I can say is that The Times is as independent as Malta became when George Borg Olivier signed his infamous defence agreement with the British to obtain “independence” for Malta.
When The Times, which had been so strongly against independence, suddenly made a U-turn and lauded the sham “independence”, the PN leader had “won”.
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi is held by the throat by Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and The Times describes that as a “problem”. How low can the Prime Minister sink? The Times says nothing about that.
The Prime Minister “resorts to rhetoric”, it says. In fact, he sinks as low as it can get, abetted by the people who got him in his present parlous situation – Austin Gatt, of the Ġakketta Blu fame, and Richard Cachia Caruana, who is privy to the PN’s dirtiest tactics. This explains the hold they have on the PN.
The Times says nothing of all this.
This newspaper also shamefully says that Malta has “no credible alternative government”. Really? It trumpeted the introduction of the euro to the high heavens. And look where we are, sinking in a morass of debt, entered into by The Times’ PN heroes and providing guarantees for Greece and Spain, though our debt is breaking our backs.
That is the result of being in the eurozone, for which we have to chip in, though Europe is not chipping in at all to help us with our illegal immigrants’ problem.
But Alfred Sant had said, before we joined the eurozone, that we were in too much of a hurry to adopt the euro. Does not that put egg on The Times’ face?
Where is the credibility of The Times? I can tell you, in the gutter, with Labour’s politics, according to The Times.
The Times should stop dabbling in politics. The subject is beyond its comprehension.
Editorial note: Mr Mizzi, of course, has a right to express his opinion and The Times is more than willing to give him that opportunity even if it does not necessarily agree with him. Likewise, The Times expects Mr Mizzi to acknowledge that a newspaper has every right to have its editorial line and opinions.
Mr Mizzi should take some time to read carefully all the leaders of The Times dealing with the political situation.