Alex Borg’s Naked Hypocrisy Laid Bare: From Screaming “Propaganda!” to PN’s Cowardly Yes-Vote in Just 48 Hours
On Tuesday evening the Standing Committee on the Accounts of the National Audit Office did something extraordinary: it unanimously rubber-stamped the Labour Government’s historic agreement with MIDI to hand Manoel Island and Fort Tigné back to the Maltese people. The same Nationalist MPs who sit on that committee, the very people who take their orders from Alex Borg raised their hands in favour without a single whimper of protest.
Just two days earlier, the man who calls himself Leader of the Opposition, Alex Borg, stood in front of the cameras and sneered that the return of Manoel Island was nothing but “propaganda”. Every week, he whined, the government “invents” another open-space project “bil-propaganda” — and Manoel Island was apparently the latest fake headline. Fast-forward 48 hours and his own MPs are voting to approve the very same “propaganda”.
That is the pathetic spectacle of a man caught with his pants down.
Let us not forget the original sin. In 2000 a Nationalist Government, the same tribe Borg now leads, gifted these two priceless public assets to a consortium of developers for 99 years in one of the most disgraceful sweetheart deals in modern Maltese history. They handed over Manoel Island and Fort Tigné as if they were private toys. No proper safeguards. No real benefit for the people. Just another PN masterclass in selling the family silver to their developer friends.
Now, twenty-six years later, a Labour Government had to roll up its sleeves and clean up the Nationalist mess. After tough, no-nonsense negotiations, MIDI finally caved. The consortium will get back only half of its verified and justified costs and only after it meets every single condition the government set. The rest? Zero. Nothing. Not a cent more for the land they never had any moral right to control in the first place.
And what does the great “defender of the people” Alex Borg do? He calls the whole achievement propaganda.
Until, of course, his own MPs are forced to vote on it. Then suddenly the propaganda becomes acceptable. Suddenly the committee that exists to scrutinise public spending gives the deal the green light with PN votes included. The hypocrisy is so blatant it would be embarrassing if it weren’t so predictable.
This is the same Alex Borg who lectures the country about transparency, about good governance, about putting Malta first. Yet when a Labour government actually delivers what PN governments only ever promised and then betrayed, Borg’s first instinct is to spit on it and call it fake news. Two days later his party lines up like obedient sheep to approve it.
Maltese voters are not stupid. They can see a man who talks big but folds the moment reality bites. They can see a party still desperately trying to defend the indefensible 2000 concession while pretending to support its cancellation. They can see the naked political opportunism: attack the deal when it looks like a Labour win, then quietly vote for it when you realise opposing it would make you look even more ridiculous.
Alex Borg, you have been exposed.
You called the return of public land to the people “propaganda”. Your MPs just voted to make that “propaganda” official policy. You cannot spin your way out of this one. The Maltese people now own Manoel Island and Fort Tigné again not because of you, but in spite of you and the shameful legacy your party left behind in 2000.
