Despair is never an option, but panic can at least make one aware that an urgent solution to a major problem is required. I would advise Members of the Opposition to start panicking over the recent reforms about Magisterial Inquiries if they actually have the country’s interest at heart.

The Labour government is closing the last part of the justice system which can hold the government accountable. This will further accelerate impunity and the abuse of political power.

Step after step, the Labour government is creating a criminal autocracy with a rent-seeking economy that is destroying Malta’s soul and the traditional economic fundamentals introduced by the Malta Labour Party in the 1970s: mainly social mobility and social justice.

Let’s recapitulate Labour’s legacy in short. We are selling our nation and identity to Russian and Chinese oligarchs via passport sales, enabled an uncontrollable construction boom that ruined villages, historic sites, quality of life and property affordability, and we also created a cheap labour economy. The birth rate is the lowest in Europe and the people are giving up on politics. The Labour Party has become a criminal organisation focused exclusively on protecting its corrupt subjects and attacking its critics instead of crafting and building on strategic policies that will improve our society and make us a great nation.

Are we losing everything? Are we killing our own nation? We should be asking these questions because we risk turning these vital existential debates into taboos.

Let’s put it in a different way. Are we becoming another Palermo? Following the murder of the Antimafia Magistrate Paolo Borsellino on July 19 1992, the Antimafia Magistrate Antonio Caponnetto despaired after seeing Borsellino’s body in the mortuary and told the press “Everything is finished”. This was after Antimafia Magistrate Giovanni Falcone was already murdered on May 23 of the same year. Back then, Sicily lost its war against the mafia and until today, Sicily has remained a crime-infested underdeveloped island with a cheap labour economy.

Is this really what we want?

Mark Camilleri

Website Editor
Historian and Publisher