Don't wait for the politicians to clean up the mess - Colm Regan

Rescuing Malta from the political and criminal mess in which it now wallows cannot be left to the country’s political elite who designed and who continue to control and manipulate the situation. 

Not only do they have a fundamental stake in it, resolving the mess would simultaneously remove their power base and, for many their raison-d’etre. 

They are the mess, and the mess is them.

Waiting for the Labour Party to rediscover a soul, some integrity, and a sense of duty to all amounts to a forlorn agenda for the immediate future.  The party is weighed down by its corrupt leadership, its own internal political manoeuvres, its greed and its fear of democracy and accountability. 

Little of this will likely be resolved in the coming decade.

Likewise waiting for a broken and deeply divided Nationalist Party to rescue itself, let alone the country seems like another naïve and unproductive option.  Even if the party could get its act together, rebuilding it as a realistic and electable opposition is years hence.

Much of the effective opposition to the current criminality, maladministration and utter incompetence is coming from organisations such as the many environmental and human rights...