Like a recent correspondent, I too have sent several letters to the mayor of Ta' Xbiex and have not received any kind of acknowledgement whatsoever. Since councils were first formed it is difficult to know just what Ta' Xbiex council have accomplished besides a cosy debating society among their Labour colleagues.

As one approaches Ta' Xbiex from the Msida seafront it is all too apparent where Ta' Xbiex starts without the help of any notice. The clean streets and good paving immediately give way to what I, being English, would recognise as being a slum. To the left where Ta' Xbiex seafront joins Triq L-Abate Rigord is a plot of undeveloped ground used as a rubbish dump and unofficial car park.

There is no pavement connecting the two streets. Instead the road running downhill sweeps across the pavement, turning left to join the seafront with no regard to pedestrians who are led among traffic with no warning. There is no pavement until one reaches St Paul's Mansions which boasts a slab of concrete on which to stumble. It is a very dangerous place to walk.

All this in a district where very expensive blocks of flats are being built to upgrade the place and to which the Labour controlled council perversely show their spite in doing nothing.

Now that Malta is accepted by the EU it might be possible to sue the council for doing nothing to remedy a dangerous situation for which they are wholly responsible. Certainly when the first casualty is injured or killed contributed to by these conditions, it is very likely that they may be made to pay out of their own pockets the costs involved.

While they ponder this development, perhaps they might feel enlightened to realise that it would be better to forget communistic doctrines and be safer to do the proper thing for all Ta' Xbiex residents?