Roll up, roll up: Joseph u l-Guy ha jaghmlu l-miraklu tal-hut. See it to believe it.
Il-Guy, when he was one of Mintoff’s cabinet ministers. He’s asking us to give him a second chance to create jobs, given that he failed so effing miserably then. Halluna, tridux, ja partit tad-dahq. Unbelievable.
The Malta Independent reports today:
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Creating jobs will be an important challenge for the next government, and the Labour leader stressed that if his party was elected, it would be ready to launch an unprecedented partnership with the private sector to ensure the challenge is overcome.
This partnership would help break through excessive bureaucracy and help businesses succeed, he said, adding that Labour’s message to the private sector was that it was ready to take decisions and capable to make them well.
He pointed out that unemployment was currently on the increase, and dismissed Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi’s claim that 20,000 jobs have been created during the present legislature. He said that this claim had even been challenged by the EU, which said that in the best-case scenario, the figure amounts to just half the number.
Dr Muscat added that Labour was ready to launch projects which would lead to productive investment and to the creation of hundreds of jobs, and said that government’s failure to focus on job creation was a sore point.
The Labour leader noted that the party’s first congress would be held in September, and that during the event, the party would table its plans for its electoral programme and draw up a roadmap for economic growth.(…)
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Yeah right, another partnership.
Shouldn’t this so-called ‘moviment gdid’ be ashamed to actually and try to jam down our throat another failed cliche’ using the word ‘partnership’?
Partnership – L-ahjar ghazla.
‘ready to launch projects which would lead to productive investment and to the creation of hundreds of jobs…..’
‘launch an unprecedented partnership with the private sector…….’
And if one forms part of cabinet or happens to sit in parliament the investment is assured.
Yesterday’s sermon was about the five loaves and two fishes miracle. Joseph apltly claims to do the same.
So we are going to have a congress, made up of people who understand nothing about business and the economy, to “draw up a road map” foreconomic growth – a sort of plan drawn up by the masses for the masses.
It will presumably feature “plotts tal-gvern”, “bulk buying”, “issikkar tac-cinturin”, “rohs fil-prezz tal-kavalli tal-bott” and “lanzid and hdura”.
Dear Daphne,why do I have to see Anglu Farrugia’s face each time I open to see your blogs.Can’t you remove it please?
[Daphne – It’s a link to a blog. Click on it and you’ll see.]
The crux of the matter is this statement “an unprecedented partnership with the private sector.”
In the first place, it is an admission that a Labour government would have no clue how to create jobs.
In the second place, Labour still has no idea that it is in the private sector that productive jobs are created, and the only partnership that the private sector needs is an efficient, honest and competent government that limits its role to regulation, not a government that involves itself in the drawing up of partnership agreements, dabbling in business decisions, interfering with competition and possibly giving rise to State Aid issues.
The involvement of the government in business creates even more bureaucracy, because of public procurement issues, political appointments, political decision making and so forth.
Therefore, we should expect a decent explanation of what Labour means by a “partnership” – the last time they used that word, in the context of the EU, they proposed something very messy. “Partnership” is probably the last word in the dictionary they should be using.
I am very concerned that this “partnership” idea is more likely to be another National Bank saga. You either do what we order, or we take a stake in your business or acquire your property and compel you to do what we say.
They will “table the plans” for their electoral programme. What? They’ve been waiting in Opposition for so long, and have not yet got an actual electoral programme to speak of?
What are they going to call it this time? “Pjan ghal-bidu gdid, mibni fuq dawk li farrku Malta fis-sebghinijiet u fil-bidu tat-tmeninijiet”?
“During the event, the party would …….. draw up a roadmap for economic growth.”
WOW! A congress of coffee-morning regulars waving red-socialist flags is going draw up a roadmap for economic growth.
Hold on tight for the next boom.
Il-Pjan tal-Qawsalla.
here we go again.
Alla maghna.
Seeing that the first congress of the party (or movement?) will be held in September I hope that Gonzi will be kind enough not to call an election before then so as to give his opponents the chance to draw up their road map.