Year in, year out, we have to assist to the annual farce of what I term as Budgetary Boredom! We have to witness, or rather a large section apparently of the public has to witness the farce of the Minister of Finance (whoever this creature might be), beaming himself (we have never had the female species yet!), into the Chamber of our House of Representatives, accompanied by usually a dumb-looking Speaker of the same House, carrying an attaché-case in which supposedly rest the wisdom of many-a-mind to formulate the financial development and hopefully wealth of our country for the financial year that is to follow.

This is the prelude to this annual farce, following which the people who have the nerve to listen to a drawling speech written by only-god-knows how many different hands. These listen to countless points the vast majority of which are of absolute no interest to the average citizen residing in our tiny country!

Following what is usually a most boring time listening to such a nauseating speech (in the past it used to be much worse when all the media used to be blocked so that everyone would have to listen to such a speech), the people of this country have to suffer the following weeks before Christmas listening to a number of Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, their shadowy Opposition, and other “experts” explaining strictly from their point of view the various achievements or the numerous criticisms which were supposed to have occurred in our country, with all its woes and sorrows, tinged with perhaps a little humour!

Anyway I do not want to be lengthy because apparently there is consensus that Budget Time is equally Boring Time! In this light, it is important that we alter the whole system in this Information Technological Age as to how such a Budget Time is discussed with the public at large, rather than the present pedantic, autocratic style of bulldozing the budget into the minds (those who can afford to perceive it) of the public-at-large!

It is high time that Budget Time is tailor made in a discussion format over a period of weeks with the public-at-large. This is to be done through the Media. The House of Representatives should be involved in that the Representatives of the People discuss both in the preceding weeks and in the following weeks, systems and methods of how to implement what is analyzed with the public-at -large through the Media: after all this is what Democracy is all about!

Hence, this unsurprising surprise that Budget Time is meant to convey is to be eliminated as a stereotype system, which is no longer viable in modern-day Information Technology. This is to be substituted by a weekly discussion over a number of weeks on the Media where a number of Ministers on the principle of collective responsibility analyze and discuss with the electorate what should be done and what should not be done; how it is to be implemented or what solutions may be suggested on any topic that it is in the interest of the Sovereign Government, that is to say the electorate, to debate before the Budget is formulated with the consensus of the people, without all this nonsense that goes on at present where a handful of persons appear to be the consultants of what the people need or do not need.

Naturally that is why there is a Prime Minister and his team of Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries to piece together all the information gathered from the political sovereign, namely the electorate. It is important that this is done in weekly sessions over a number of weeks commencing, say, from the beginning of October or from the beginning of September to the beginning of November, so that Budget Time will be a time where everyone is interested to listen in as to how the collective effort by the public for the public from would have been translated by the representatives of the people, and not by the rulers of the people, as the current system would appear to hint more at!

This is the new system which ALPHA: partit politiku would advocate in the interest of all sections of the public-at-large. If we were to analyze the decrepit Budget we have just had, it is obvious that the interests of the vast majority of the political sovereign, the electorate at large, have not been addressed. Hence why the huge disappointment with this Budget which definitely runs counter to what a colleague of mine stated that in this Budget this Government listened and cared, which is ofcourse political nonsense not acceptable to the intelligent and sensible political sovereign!

In conclusion, therefore, let us make immediate plans so that this Budgetary Boredom is eliminated once and for all. All of us are invited to contribute in a truly democratic way to our common Budget, which is meant to assist each and every one of us towards a better country and less hardship on each and every citizen of this land!

Yours Truly:
Emmy D. BEZZINA:
Chairman/Founder-ALPHA: partit politiku