The extreme negative, if not vile, reaction by Nationalist Party exponents to the Prime Minister’s announcement on Xarabank that the State will be donating €5 million to Puttinu Cares to ensure its project to build another block of apartments in London is realised, possibly this year, has brought widespread, utter condemnation by the Maltese and Gozitan people including many PN supporters.

How on earth could Beppe Fenech Adami, for example, have the cheek to write “I feel insulted and disgusted that, yesterday, we allowed Joseph Muscat send a message that in order to cure cancer victims we have to sell the Maltese passport to the corrupt and criminals”?

Cancer victims have been sent to London hospitals for treatment for decades. The difference is that before Puttinu existed, family members of patients had to try and find accommodation on their own, especially with the nuns in London. Puttinu has made this very trying experience so much less harrowing and less expensive by providing free accommodation to patients’ family members in one of the number of apartments the Puttinu NGO has succeeded in letting, purchasing or building in London.

In fact, the donation announced by Muscat is intended to help Puttinu realise the dream of constructing another block of apartments since there is a growing need for accommodation. This government is also paying the air fare of both parents, and not one, who accompany children for treatment in London.

If PN exponents believe that trying to rubbish this most welcome gesture would win the party any political points, they are so utterly wrong. How is it possible that PN exponents can never relate with people’s feelings and emotions due to their negative-at-all-cost policy?