Describing the GWU and PL's protest next Sunday as a political game at the wrong time could perhaps not have been a better depiction (editorial, February 19).

In times where economies around Europe are shattered due to the global financial climate, all stakeholders should stand side by side in trying to find the best way out of the situation.

This is not a time of acting in spite. Not even in the best of times, let alone now, can all stakeholders come out completely and equally satisfied. But why should this result in representatives taking political stands at this stage rather than sitting down around a table and discussing the best way forward together?

I do not want to be misinterpreted. They have the right to protest if they feel it opportune and wise.

The party in government ensured the safeguarding of such rights after the 1980s, which my generation is lucky, yet ungrateful, not to have witnessed.

This political gimmick of the GWU and PL, an allegiance to be expected, shows that both try to please the public by highlighting public suffering, rather than spending their time coming up with concrete, implementable proposals. Perhaps they think the public is gullible. Hence they do not feel the need to substantiate their argument of being concerned with people rather than votes.

What is important is that they fulfil the promises of their marriage to one another, and support each other even in times that call for political maturity.