The Nationalist Party is pushing a rock uphill

Abstract

It is probably ‘the dream’ of every Opposition to have such fodder at your beck and call to criticize and use as ammo ‘against’ the Government With all the looming court cases and inquiries, the fact that their ‘ paladin’ had to resign (and having to deal with new allegations directed against him), the dark clouds that hover on a number of party stalwarts of the Muscat era who are riddled with scandal, suspicion or mistrust and the shock that the Labour Party had to endure in the process, it is strange, almost flabbergasting, that the inroads the Nationalist Party has made are minutest. [excerpt]