Last Sunday, the Prime Minister, in an impressive US presidential-style sermon, spoke passionately of making Malta a land of opportunity, equality and innovation.

Yet, he failed to specify that in Labour speak ‘Malta’ refers to the few thousand opportunistic self-confessed bourgeoisies who have never had it so good.

Sadly, the Prime Minister, despite all his promises and (hopefully) good intentions, is repeating the mistakes of the post-EU accession PN governments, rendering Malta the land of the few. March 2013 only managed to change the people at the top and their extended circles of families and friends, but not the anachronistic system with which this country is governed.

This is what Labour’s change and meritocracy were all about: turning democracy and the Labour Party’s centre-left principles on their head for the sake of power.

The Prime Minister (to give him the benefit of the doubt) might have had all the good intentions in the world, but with the people he surrounded himself with over the past few years, we should not have expected much better.