Just days ago, Simon Busuttil, the leader of the Opposition (which opposes everything this government does), had expressed “shock” at the Prime Minister’s statement that he was against the expansion of the Freeport operation because it would be detrimental to Birżebbuġa residents, more than it already is. In fact, the real “shock” was that of Birżebbuġa residents who openly expressed their harsh criticism of Busuttil’s proposal.

I am convinced that when Busuttil made that statement about the Freeport he was not expecting two much bigger “shocks” just  days later.

The first was when it was announced that Malta now has the lowest unemployment rate in the whole of the European Union whereas he and his party had predicted that “under Labour unemployment will shoot up”.

Remember that massive billboard showing a long queue of unemployed people with the words ‘Labour won’t work’, which the PN had copied from the British Conservative Party?

The second shock that must have hit Busuttil very hard was the Eurobarometer survey showing that 55 per cent of the Maltese people trust the government while only 32 per cent have no trust in this administration.

This is the opposite of a similar survey in 2012 when only 34 per cent had said they trusted the PN government and 52 per cent had replied they distrusted GonziPN.

One can only hope that such shocks - three in one week - would help the PN leader to finally  realise that his utter negativism is not helping him and his party’s electoral prospects. He may, thus, decide to abandon his ‘attack the PL government on everything’ politics, which, certainly,  is not ‘honest politics’ at all.