Muscat: Only Labour can implement the Budget measures

Labour leader Joseph Muscat said tonight that Malta was in a situation where the government had announced Budget measures whose introduction could only be guaranteed by Labour.  Giving his reaction to the Budget speech, Dr Muscat said that if this was the best the government could do, the people could be assured that Labour would do better. The government, he said did not know if the Budget would be approved by Parliament, and thus it was only Labour which could guarantee that the good points of the Budget would be retained. It was only Labour, not the government, which could give peace of mind. Dr Muscat said this was the last flourish by a government which was in its final moments, and Labour was promising that it would do more to bring about economic growth and better living standards.  This, he said, was an arrogant government which had not kept its promises throughout the legislature and now was saying it would give the people something back, when it did not know whether it actually could. This was a government which had promised a Budget surplus but created deficits and had seen the debt run out of control.  The government had shown that it did not know how the economy...