Thanks for, again, highlighting the pensions theft of the century.

So, parliamentarians have now thought it fit to try and legislate to increase their own additional pensions, totalling over €2 million a year, financed by service pensions.

Thanks to this newspaper we realise that, since the infamous 1979 law, all parliamentarians have been wallowing in additional non-contributory pensions while we poor mortals have service pensions deducted from our pensions to which we contributed over the years. A sort of reverse Robin Hood: stealing from the poor to pay the rich.

No wonder every legislature since the introduction of that legal outrage shied away from reversing the law’s unjust perpetuation.

I remember years ago, my father, a security guard, complaining that his dockyard service pension was being deducted from his national insurance pension “for the national good” to help finance other pensioners.

It was not publicised at the time that his meagre pension was helping to increase the MPs’ own pensions, no matter how many parliamentary sessions they attended.

This legalised theft is still ongoing, with my UK civil service pension still being offset against my Maltese national insurance pension to this very day.

Our legislators have ignored the fact that the European Parliament issued an infringement notice against Malta, followed by a reasoned opinion and, finally, a recommendation by the Advocate General in Brussels saying this violates EU law.

Maybe, one day, our wish may be granted, unless we are six foot under by then, like my poor old dad.