I am a long-suffering shareholder of the National Bank of Malta. I read with interest GWU secretary-general Tony Zarb’s remarks about how unfair it is for the Government to hold talks with shareholders of the National Bank while ignoring the port workers. But Mr Zarb need not worry. Yes, meetings have been held with the Government but, alas, to date, that’s all it has been – talk! As everyone knows, talk is cheap.

For readers’ information, many shareholders of the National Bank had invested their life savings and pensions in the bank and lost everything they had.

I can assure the public that a vast majority of these shareholders (or their descendants) are much poorer than former Dockyard workers, bus owners, hearse owners, Valletta shop owners, civil servants, government consultants, government-appointed architects, etc.

In conclusion, I can safely say that shareholders of the National Bank of Malta have been taken for a ride throughout the 25 years of Nationalist Government.