The Nationalist Party really knows no shame. Today they stood in front of cameras preaching about debt and public finances as if Malta’s history started yesterday. Their Shadow Ministers warned about debt levels under the Labour Government – conveniently forgetting the disaster they left behind when voters kicked them out in 2013.
Let’s remind them. Under the Nationalists, Malta was stagnant. Unemployment was high, wages were low, and the country’s economic potential was suffocated by arrogant and disconnected leadership. Hospitals were crumbling. Roads were neglected for decades. Families lived under constant financial strain while the Nationalist elite enjoyed power for themselves.
Today, the debt they cry about is debt that built an economy that kept people in work during a global pandemic. It is debt that kept energy prices stable while the world faced massive shocks. It is debt that supported families, saved businesses from collapse, built new hospitals, upgraded schools, and created the infrastructure they failed to provide for 25 years.
Graham Bencini and Jerome Caruana Cilia want people to believe that the Labour Government is reckless. In reality, this is a Government that invests in its people and its future. Debt is only a problem if it funds nothing. Under Labour, debt funds jobs, stability, and growth. Under the Nationalists, debt funded nothing but arrogance and a broken economy.
They even speak about inferior medicines and deteriorating infrastructure. Do they think people have forgotten Mater Dei under their watch? The cancer patients without medicine? The roads that were left to rot? Under Labour, these are being addressed systematically year after year. Under the Nationalists, they were ignored entirely.
What Malta cannot afford is a return to the incompetence, arrogance, and elitism that the Nationalist Party represents. They want to lecture the country about finances, but people remember what they left behind – a country paralysed by their failures.
The Nationalist Party knows no shame. They can keep their press conferences, their statistics, and their empty words. Labour will continue to focus on what matters – building a stronger Malta for everyone, not just for the few.
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I agree but under past PL administrations the debt was cut down.
The Bobby has no clue. Where is the investment to make an efficient public service and reduce useless jobs and instead these jobs are on the private sector jobs?
Why do we need a huge workforce from 3rd countries who are pushing the economy and environment to the brink?