PN in missive against ‘Labour triumvirate’ on foreign policy

The PN said Busuttil had recently questioned whether Malta should unfreeze some €377 million in Libyan assets held under a UN Security Council resolution, calling it a “classical example of Labour’s grave lack of substance.”

“Such a shallow, mind boggling and plain stupid comment exposes the Labour Party for what it truly is: a populist party without vision and suffering from a grave lack of substance,” the PN said in an unsigned statement.

It also accused Joseph Cuschieri, elected Malta’s sixth MEP but still without a seat in the European Parliament, of being unprepared for the job for calling on the government to provide a debt instrument to Greece unless the country ratifies an EU protocol to extend the size of the EP.

“He keeps coming up with the strangest of suggestions which if implemented would tarnish Malta’s good reputation in Brussels… one wonders what makes Labour come up with such hilarious (read illogical) statements, but then perhaps it all boils down to a grave lack of substance,” the PN said.

The statement also attacked Labour leader Joseph Muscat for taking six months to condemn the Gaddafi government.

“Under a Labour government the Busuttil-Muscat-Cuschieri triumvirate will call the shots. With such a disastrous track record, Malta’s future diplomatic and foreign affairs prospects under a Labour government do not look well at all – to put it mildly, we’ll be in for a mess,” the PN said.