Take A Stand!

Revolution in the ranks has drawn MPs from the two major parties in the United Kingdom to cross the floor - not to opposite parties - but to occupy the centre ground. In the past weeks, rebel Labour MPs and rebel Conservatives have banded together in the House of Commons to form an Independent Group. It was automatic to see the comparison with Partit Demokratiku.

Partit Demokratiku is also a union of Labourites and Nationalists, yet with a crucial difference. It was Labour MPs who crossed the floor in the face of injustice. Some civil wars have taken place in the Nationalist Party as of late, one taking place recently during that most jolly of holidays, Christmas.

However, it has been disappointing to watch the resistance to Adrian Delia crumble so sweetly. Adrian Delia just told the developers that the construction boom is only just beginning. So where is the resistance to a policy direction designed to appease corrupt and destructive private interests? Why are all Nationalist him or is he just pretending to? I honestly do not know. Yet there is a strong lobby of former Nationalist voters who oppose Delia who are being strung along by the promise that things can go back to the good old days.

Can they really? And what would Daphne Caruana Galizia say of those who are staying quiet now?

Why are environmentalists inside the Nationalist Party refusing to take responsibility for the cozy connections their party has with Silvio Debono and many others. Having said all this, there are individuals inside the Nationalist Party who do not shy away from opposing the party line, but they are nowadays only to be found inside local councils.

I wish to see the same courage in Nationalist MPs expressed by the PD MPs, in breaking away from a compromised regime. In the United Kingdom, the newly formed Independent Group is particularly brave because they have a far worse electoral system there which is far harsher on third parties. Yet in spite of that, they have taken plunge, to try and oppose a