In The Sunday Times of Malta editorial of July 14 it is stated that ‘racism’ had been well and truly on the back burner until Joseph Muscat dared upset the political applecart by, somewhat dramatically, going for a push-back solution; you spare him the label of being a ‘racist’, but then accuse him of having let the ‘racist’ genie out of the bottle by his actions.
As with all the politically correct, great and good of these islands no solution to the problem is actually offered but the Prime Minister is criticised for having taken this drastic course of action.
No credit is given to him for firing a warning shot across the bows of the EU, making it clear that the problem is still here. That’s all he did. This is politics.
The immigration problem might well have been put on the backburner by a tacit pre-electoral agreement between the political parties and the media. On assuming power, the new Government was faced with the problem of the EU – in which the previous administration had placed so much faith – effectively dumping the problem in our laps and running away. Faced with this new scenario, it had to do something fairly dramatic to show the EU that it cannot behave like this.
Any ‘racist’ incidents are of course to be deplored, but please let us not label all those who are terrified by what they see happening as ‘racists’; they are realists.
I wonder how many members of the chattering classes have actually lived in a country which has had its culture and way of life turned on its head in an effort to appease minorities who then move on to more demands, in an effort to impose their own values on the majority.
I have and I can assure everyone that it is not a pleasant experience; such appeasement then generated an ugly racist backlash, the likes of which at the moment, is, thank God, unknown in our islands.
We are staring at a catastrophe and now is not the time for politicians of any party to play games; a divided House gives the EU the excuse once more to relegate our problem to the ‘backburner’.
The electorate will not forget who stood up for the Maltese and Gozitan people in the face of this problem when it is next offered its chance to express an opinion at the ballot box.
Sweeping the problem under the carpet is no longer an option.