It has been more than forty years since Malta’s main political parties disagreed on fundamental issues of national security. Never in our history has a political party used national security issues as cheap, popular, and deceiving talking points for electoral ends.
Yesterday, at Bormla’s Realto, Robert Abela came out strongly against European defence spending and accused Roberta Metsola of being a warmonger. Metsola was right when she described Labour as dangerous because these are the talking points that the Kremlin wants to sell to European politicians. Labour MEPs seem to have already received the memo and this will be a talking point of their campaign. This is the first time in our history that such a serious discussion relating to our national security is being used in a deceiving way that can only serve foreign interests. Not even Joseph Muscat stooped at these lows. Imagine the Labour Party in Opposition during Lawrence Gonzi’s administration accusing it of warmongering as it allowed the French services to aid the Libyan revolutionaries with telecommunications, or when the government accepted the Libyan deserters who flew in with their fighter jets.
These are serious discussions that should be made with maturity but we can forget that we’ll be having any of that. Robert Abela gave an hour-long speech that sounded like an unhinged Orwellian diatribe of a drunken village warlord, blaming “the establishment” of having a conspiracy against the people, accusing his critics of wanting to hurt his supporters, all the while claiming that Malta’s economy is depending on his great benevolence and his altruistic will to work for the people. The half-man-half-child couldn’t be more criminal if he took any more breaths. Maybe, we should be reminded of the time when Robert Abela was in business with Russian oligarchs over Maltese passports.
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