The proposal by ‘salesman’ Joseph Muscat and his nefarious government to import thousands of foreign workers from (reportedly) non-EU countries (possibly from North Korea, Azerbaijan, China and the like) has created a lot of rumblings within the Labour camp.

Quite rightly, Labourites contend that the importation of more foreign workers, who would be, presumably, skilled workers (and not garbage collectors), would be taking the good jobs from the Maltese. To soothe their fears, Muscat ‘glibly’ explained that the foreign workers would be paying taxes and national insurance contributions but they would not remain in Malta to get a pension.

He did not say, however, that Malta is already overpopulated and that additional people would add further strain on accommodation, water and electricity supply, drainage, transport and other services.

All he is interested in is signing further ‘lucrative’ deals to realise his dream of a cosmopolitan Malta.  Apparently, he is not content with selling passports, as demand may be drying up.

It would appear Muscat is bent on continuing to lead his supporters by their nose and added that the government is quite serious about the need for foreign workers.

To prove his point he said that, in recent days, he had met with two ‘serious investors’, both of whom (as luck would have it) enquired about plans to increase Malta’s labour force. Well, let’s hope they are more serious than the Jordanian developer of the ‘phantom’ American university.

In any case, the Prime Minister, or at least his economic advisers, should consider whether it is advisable to overheat the already booming economy, which could threaten the whole economic set-up, resulting in a consequent downward spiral.

If the Prime Minister feels so restrained by the small size of our population, he could very well seek better pastures abroad, where he could realise his lofty ambitions, rather than imposing them on us ‘little people’.