We have always suffered from this. We always seem to think anything foreign is better than what is Maltese. It is due to our having lived under foreign powers since time immemorial. But that no longer applied politically after 1964, when the Nationalists won independence from Britain, and economically and financially in everything else after 1979, when the last British forces left Malta, according to the agreement Dom Mintoff had achieved.

With the Nationalists in government this colonial mentality will stick with us. The Nationalists still think anything foreign is better than anything Maltese. And Lawrence Gonzi has just proved it again to us, if proof were needed.

I mean, here we have a Maltese Auditor General picking gaping holes in the BWSC power station extension contrac, and the Nationalist government accepting that contract in Parliament blindly, in spite of the doubts raised about it by the Auditor General. The Maltese Auditor General's findings were, to the Nationalist government, worthless.

But look at what Dr Gonzi did because the EU is withholding funds due under education programmes. The EU felt it did not have enough accountability about the way the money passed to Malta had been spent.

So the EU has suspended payments to Malta. No more education programmes will be held until the matter is settled to the EU's satisfaction.

And what does the Prime Minister do? Does he go to Parliament to show no confidence in the EU? Oh no, he is calling an inquiry. A foreign power has pulled the PN government's strings and lo, and behold, we are having an inquiry.

Need I say more?!