The future crumbling – Manuel Delia

The Labour Party is the ruin of the present. They know why. You know why. For the benefit of the inveterate hecklers, the institutionalised corruption that gripped the island in 2013 is the mother of the lawlessness, the amorality, the irrepressible greed, the steroids pumped into the underlying conditions of over-development and economic dependence on economic activities of uncertain provenance and less certain prospects.

The Nationalist Party is the ruin of our future. Its one job as a three-term opposition party is to give us hope that there’s a way out of the present disaster. It should be an oasis, even a mirage of one, that spurs us on, that distracts us from doubting whether it is worth believing a different future would come in place of this unending drought.

Those outside the Labour Party, and many even within it, can agree that the present administration is worse for having no fear of any end. For being a government, it is an obvious candidate for public scrutiny and criticism. More so for being a government that is in its 10th year. Even more so for having a soothed record of bribery, collusion, nepotism, simony and, perhaps worst of all, the disarming of the state...