Now we know what an oligarchy truly looks like - Labour governments led by a “kitchen cabinet” which exercises power for their own benefit and that of their close friends - Yorgen Fenech, Chris Borg, the Bonnici Brothers, Zammit Tabonas, DB, Construct furniture, Paul Attard, Joseph Portelli. Labour’s prime ministers and their respective cabinets pandered to the interests of their wealthy financial contributors who helped them gain and retain office. A decade of boasts about rising GDP, surplus and economic miracles were just a gloss over the monumental corruption Labour engineered - at the nation’s expense. Twain’s novel could easily apply to Labour’s Malta. But only powerful businessmen and their friends in office benefitted. America was going through a time of unprecedented growth and prosperity. In 1873 Mark Twain published “The Gilded Age: a tale of today”, a biting satire about an age of corruption where crooked land speculators and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of their fellow countrymen.
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