![]() Young people cannot afford to get out of these holes and onto the property ladder. Meanwhile, every social class you could think of are falling into the holes dug by bulldozers everywhere. In his Sunday morning speeches, he is still banging on about creating a new middle class as he did in 2013. Will he, one day, shrug it off saying that with hindsight, ‘he could have done things better’, while the country has to live with the urban devastation he inspired? On the environment, for example, Muscat lacks the foresight to appreciate the long-term damage of his ‘construction-at-all-costs’ approach. But without the ability to judge the effects of actions over time, that is a dangerous thing. Muscat prides himself on being an innovator, transforming society. But her reply was actually vintage Muscat: ‘it could have been done better’. People have speculated whether Helena Dalli’s reply was scripted by Castille Central Control, or whether she was jumping a sinking ship, abandoning Konrad Mizzi and friends at her first opportunity. Yet knowing that you are wrong, and admitting it, does not make you right. Having recognised a faux pas, Muscat shows no remorse and continues as before. Responding to his first major scandal, the Café Premier site in Valletta, soon after taking office, he said: ‘we could have done better’. How could Joseph Muscat not see that too? Because of his lack of foresight, therefore, he has thrown the country’s reputation to the dogs. Yet many people did have enough foresight, from the start, to recognise how badly the Panama Papers revelations were being handled. ![]() Konrad Mizzi now thinks he should have done things differently too. With hindsight, he quipped, everyone would behave differently, in so many situations. This was immediately spun into a badge of honour by Muscat. ‘Alea iacta est’ – the die is cast and the soldiers are preparing to cross the river.Īsked by the European Parliament last week about her government’s handling of the Panama Papers, commissioner-designate Helena Dalli said she would have handled it differently. He said he was leaving, yet is now thinking of staying. He no longer appears to have any idea where he is heading at all. Six and a half years later, he gives the opposite impression. Joseph Muscat walked up the Auberge de Castille staircase to his new office in 2013 as the man with a roadmap.
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