Qalb Tony Zarb perzuta ghall-haddiema
And to think I used to be the Maltova baby.
Tony Zarb had a high old time in Valletta this afternoon, doing his best to justify his salary by yelling into a microphone about Traitors to the People.
A beaming Joseph Muscat, looking like a perfect dolt with an expression that didn’t match the supposed solemnity of the occasion, pushed his way through the crowd, which stretched all the way from the city’s gate to parliament square.
He was flanked by the party’s deputy leaders, the grinning former police inspector and the molester of rubber puppets with big breasts.
Next to that trio, the Winning Team from 1996 (remember that?) looks like it was made in heaven.
There was a big deal about how this was a national protest organised by the unions and nothing to do with the Labour Party. Why, then, did it remind me so much of the national protests organised against VAT, spearheaded by the GWU and addressed by Anglu Fenech?
Well, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck even if you call it a kangaroo.
The people there seemed overly keen to press Muscat’s flesh, Tony Zarb hogged – and for once, the verb is more than appropriate – the limelight, and the main drag was a sea of red. Now if somebody rushes in to tell me that this is because the GWU has just had an image make-over – which didn’t involve the removal of its leader, incidentally – and that the new brand is red, I’ll just have to point out that this is the most incredibly fortunate coincidence.
To me, it looked and sounded like one hell of a Labour mass meeting, complete with rough and ugly men shouting in red (and those are just the ones on the podium) against the independent media and gassing on about ‘traitors to the people’.
The organisers did not permit the use of any Labour torca scarves (because it was not – ahem – a Labour meeting). Perhaps somebody should remind them gently that there are no Labour torca scarves at official Labour meetings, either, because the mexxej has decreed that only EU flags and the national flag must be used, to cunningly fox observers.
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Watch it here:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100228/local/zarb-calls-on-mps-not-to-betray-the-people-in-tariffs-vote-tomorrow
Dan liebes qmis tal-kmiem qosra?
Le, dak xammarhom ghax-xoghol.
Lovely: “Kull min ghada..bla bla bla…se nzommuh responsabbli…Naraw min huma dawk it-tradituri”. String ’em up, what?
Inkella kretin totali. Imma total. Party X is elected to govern. By the Poplu. Party X tables a parliamentary vote. MP from party X (elected by the Poplu) would be a “traditur” if s/he were to vote against.
Baxxter , is-sabiha hi li lil-eks mexxej tal-partit Laburista kienu ghajruh traditur ghax ivvota kontra dawn it-tariffi meta iz-zejt kien $12 il-barmil.
Mhux se nghid li se nhallashom bi pjacir ghax fihom daqqa, imma ta’ l-inqas mhux se nhallas ghall-konsum ta’ haddiehor. Issa nircevu l-ghajnuna tal-gvern u jaqtaghna bicca.
Sa fejn naf jien kull membru parlamentari suppost hu responsabbli ,izommu jew ma’ jzommux responsabbli Toni Zarb! Xbajt nisma’ dir-retorika u kliem fil-vojt.
Nittama li kellu permess ghal-protesta tal-lum.
Gahan, I liked your statement “imma ta’ l-anqas mhux se nhallas ghall-konsum ta’ haddiehor.” Actually, Labour’s, GWU’s and MUTs’ positions add up to that, don’t they? It is obvious that subsidies mean somebody is paying through taxes, or that the bill is passed to the next generation in the form of public debt. But your statement puts it nicely: maybe you do not pay for your bill in full, because it is subsidised, but then you pay somebody else’s bill or subsidy through your other taxes. Funny.
Now, Gahan, before you leave, igbed il-bied warajk, u itfi id-dawl…
Ma stajtx tpoggiha ahjar, Gahan. Bis-sussidji (ta’ kollox: hobz, gass, halib, ilma,..) effettivament qed thallas ghall-haddiehor.
Li ridt nghid jien hu li l-elezzjonijiet isiru ghal raguni wahda: biex il-gvern jinghata mandat demokratiku. Issa jekk kull decizjoni se tigi challenged mis-so-called “poplu fit-toroq”, mela d-demokrazija tikrolla. Naf pajjizi ipparalizzati minhabba dan il-hobby ta’ leftist mass protest. U emmnuni mhemm xejn aghar ghall-ekonomija.
Imbaghad xi opinion poll ikun jonqos… Min dejjem fittex il-consensus spicca qatt m’ghamel xejn. Ghax xi hadd kontrik se jkollok zgur (f’Malta se jkollok dejjem 200 000 persuna kontrik).
Notice that Tony Zarb says about our MPs ‘ghada se jiehdu l-vot’.
Fejn se jiehduh il-vot, jew minn ghand min?
Ghada se jivvutaw, Tony.
Perhaps he has translated literally from the English ‘to take a vote’, which doesn’t mean ‘to vote’, but to ‘take’ (count) the votes of a body of people.
Tell that to Maltarightnow and/or the EU
http://www.maltarightnow.com/Default.asp?module=news&at=Vot+ta'+fidu%26%23267%3Bja+fl-Amministrazzjoni+tal-MUMN&t=a&aid=99809163&cid=19
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+IM-PRESS+20071130STO14198+0+DOC+XML+V0//MT
Isma’, bil-Malti nghidu jew le li xi hadd jiehu l-vot(i) jigifieri se jidhol f’kunvent? Jew ghandi zball?
[Daphne – No, Banquo, that’s another instance of the ignorance of the uneducated working-class forcing words and phrases into the language, and then the ‘stamp of officialdom’ being given to these mistakes and attempts made to force the educated to speak like the working-class. Votes are not taken. If anything, they are given. When you vote, you give something and not take it. This is academic, anyway, because both Maltese and English have a perfectly good verb to describe the action of voting: to vote/ivvota. When the expression ‘to take a vote’ is used in English, it means literally that: to count (take) the votes of an assembly of people. But those people have voted; they haven’t taken a vote.]
You are right.
Prendere i voti is in Italian: http://it.thefreedictionary.com/prendere+i+voti
So, if Tony Zarb was thinking in Italian, he meant to say that MPs will be taking religious vows?
Qed nghid kemm tkunu pronti biex tigbdu l-attenzioni fuq xi zball tal-kitba jew fid-diskors. Banquo, il-kummenti ta’ min kiteb qablek ma rajthomx jaqaw? Ahjar taraw it-travi li ghandkhom intom f’ghajnejkhom.
Who would have thought we would ever see the MUT side by side with the GWU attacking a PN government?
What goes round must come round.
(It WAS a large crowd, wasn’t it?)
[Daphne – Iva, Twanny, hija – hargu gita ta’ nhar ta’ Hadd. Minnflok marru Ta’ Qali bit-Thermos jew il-Buskett biex imardu l-ghasafar bl-ghajjat u r-radios, telghu sal-Belt bil-balloons u l-imkatar u kielu xeba mqaret minn fejn Puturjal.]
‘Who would have thought we would ever see tha MUT side by side with the GWU?’ Ghandek ragun, Twanny, pero taf x`hemm tajjeb li hadd mill-ghalliema mhu se jaqla xeba, bhal ma kienu jaqalaw meta kienu jipprotestaw fi zmien il-hakma socjalista Mintoffjana.
Nispera li Mr.Bencini ma ghandux memorja qasira u jinsa l-herba li kienu ghamlu il-Mintoffjani Strada Rjali l-isfel fejn il kwartieri tal-MUT.
‘It was a large crowd, wasn’t it’: minn daqshekk dejjem hekk tkun. Taf x`hemm tajjeb? It-tigrija sal-barkun.
@ N.L
Forsi Bencini tela fuq il-palk jindirizza il meeting biex forsi jaghraf lil xi hadd mill-folla li kienet ghamlet herba mill-kwartieri tal-MUT fis-sena 1984.
The actions of one man in the MUT are now destroying one of Malta’s oldest trade unions. Wait and see: I am sure that the UHM section for teachers will take over soon.
The present leaders of the MUT have probably forgotten the seven weeks’ lock out/strike by teachers, the daily threat of dismissal against teachers participating in the strike, the bombs set against the premises of Alfred Buhagiar’s family (oh, Buhagiar was such a gentleman with high principles, so, so different from Bencini), the take-over of schools by Mintoffian parents, many of whom hardly knew how to read and write, the disastrous state of government schools in those horrible days, the personal threats against teachers, the use of homes as tuition centres because Catholic schools were locked and guarded by the police, the complete and wholehearted support of the General Workers Union against the MUT and the teaching profession. L-Orizzont was a deadly instrument in their dirty hands.
Remember, Bencini, that when the MUT offices were attacked, the perpetrators had just left a meeting at the GWU headquarters. All teachers who have survived the atrocious onslaught will never forget. But it seems that Bencini has forgotten everything and is now ready to play into the hands of the GWU and of the Labour Party, some of whose leaders tried to destroy the MUT itself. But have the rest of the MUT Council also forgotten?
Well eating imqaret makes a nice change from beating pots and pans – but the end result is much the same.
[Daphne – No, Twanny, it certainly isn’t. The Sliema housewives who beat those pots and pans outside the prime minister’s office in 1986, because their homes had been left without running water for months on end (I had a newborn baby and no running water in the flat where we lived – imagine that) were attacked by a gang of thugs and policemen. There were many injuries: my husband was hospitalised because he had the temerity to pull his mother out of the melee – an action to which the police objected (how dare he deprive them of an elderly woman to attack?) causing at least seven of them to set about him with their fists and, after they had knocked him to the ground, with their feet. I didn’t hear of anything similar happening yesterday. Did you?]
It’s obscene to compare yesterday’s xalati with what happened in 1986, when Maltese citizens were begging for water. Then there were the infrastructural problems which followed, with all water pipes and fittings having to be replaced because without running water they had jammed up. So stop being ridiculous.
Twanny, ma’ nafx minn fejn naqbad nibda mieghek! Jien kelli ninstalla tankijiet u pompa fil-bitha nterna biex intella l-ilma fit-tank tal-bejt ghax il-pressa kienet tant baxxa li bil-kemm kien jigi l-ilma ma’ tul il-jum. Kelli wkoll voltage stabiliser, bhal hafna, ghax id-dawl kien jitbaxxa fl-ghaxija.
Wara ftit zmien li kienu telghu in-Nazzjonalisti il-pompa waqfet tahdem u wara ftit iggamjat, ghax ma’ kienx hemm bzonnha. Min hu ta’ l-eta` tieghi jiftakar li fuq il-bjut rari kont tara tank (tal-hamsa u erbghin gallun kienu jkunu) ghax ftit kienu l-postijiet li ma’ kellomx pressa biz-zejjed.
Issa la qbadta fuq il-bjut lanqas kont tara dixx tas-satellita fuq il-bjut ghax ma’ nafx kemm permessi u licenzji ridt ikollok. U l-anqas ma’ kont tara Solar Water Heater ghax kien hemm dazju fuqu u mhux sussidju fi zmien il-Labour.
Allura meta thares lejn bejt ftakar li t-tank ta’ l-ilma huwa zejjed u nghamluh ghax drajna inqiegheduh minhabba n-nuqqas ta’ l-ilma minn zmien gvern bla direzzjoni,u meta tara dixx tas-satellita ftakar li Eddie fetah lil Malta ghal-komunikazzjoni u meta tara Solar water heater ftakar li Gonzi qed jghin lil-kullhadd biex jifranka d-dawl u min ma’ jiflahx ihallas il-kont jghinu wkoll.Hekk se naslu x’imkien ghax il-flus sejrin biex nifrankaw mhux biex inberbquhom f’sussidju lil-kullhadd.
you are such a looser daphne haha !! publish my comment
How is this dinosaur still around?
[Daphne – Barney is purple, not red.]
And Barney is always cheerful and happy.
“Barney is purple, not red.”
But both dinosaurs make me want to bang my head against a wall.
Tony Zarb on Youtube :” Poplu…poplu…a hundred times poplu.” Is this the same person who condoned the millions of liri of annual losses at the drydocks? To Tony it was perfectly OK to subsidise the dockyard out of our taxes. There comes a time when subsidies are no longer affordable apart from those badly in need of them.
‘traitors to the people’ indeed! This is 2010 not 1789. Sometimes I wonder where this hotchpotch pretend ideology came from. Isn’t everyone a ”haddiem” even if they’re professionals or own their own business, wherever they may live? It’s a token word used by GWU/Labour especially at their mass rallies. They know that it is perceived by the masses in a comforting way as referring to “us poor meagre mortals who need someone to protect us” from the greedy rich. I’m sure Tony Zarb et al see themselves in the role of Robin Hood. Didn’t Toni Abela host a show by that name, on Super One? The GWU really does need to modernise its act in getting its message across!
It is quite appaling to see Paul Pace but most of all John Bencini participating in this rally, when witnessing the language, attitude and intimidation used for today’s vote. Is it this progressive?
I must admit that this is a good eye-opener about how the GWU and the MLP still have the same approach and mentality.
When you set up a privately owned company called ARMS to crucify those families that can’t afford to pay with further penalties you are indeed an anti social TRAITOR. John Bencini’s magnificent speech was an eye opener into Pn’s treachery of trying to hide behind a mask and webs of treachery and purposely confusing the average joe who has to suffer for Pn’s greed and incompetence. From now on I know that every word uttered from a Gonzi or Tonio is not to be trusted. Your blog has been made blunt with his marvellous speech. If PL are the modern day robin hoods than Tonio is the sheriff of Nottingham.
[Daphne – No wonder you can’t get a job, Mark.]
And who’s Friar Tuck?
[Daphne – Tony Zarb, of course. Now ask about Maid Marian.]
Ok. So who’s Maid Marian?
Ahem but ARMS is jointly owned by Enemalta Corporation and Water Services Corporation which, if I am not suffering from amnesia, are still owned by the government – so ergo not “privately owned”.
It seems a lot of people have their priorities wrong: instead of paying their bills within 45 days they still prefer to try their luck on the Super 5.
Maid Marian – that’s an easy one: Joseph Muscat, the fairy who waves his magic wand and, presto, the GWU appears to deliver yet another blow to the economy.
Mhux Kate Moss? In Blackadder at least.
I’m curious Mark, are you the same Mark C that had a discussion with me on this blog last week? If you are, lots of luck in finding a suitable job.
No Frank, if you mean the conversation about tin-pot despot it was me. It’s been a while since I was unemployed: 1985, to be precise.
I thought the PL’s claim was that the increase in the price of utilities was due to Enemalta inefficiencies? Surely the learned mexxej is not suggesting that Enemalta’s buildings and equipment are spending too much of the corporation’s money. That means he’s saying that the wastage is down to the payroll bill and too many employees on it. So much for his party’s much-vaunted love for the haddiem and all with the blessing of the redoubtable GWU. The plot thickens.
Your stupidity has no bounds!
ARMS ltd is not a privately owned company – it is a limited liability company set up by Enemalta and Water Services to streamline the bill-paying facility of these two entities.
You insist that you cannot find a job but, as Daphne commented, this is not a surprise. It seems that you are one of those dreaming of finding a cushy job (maybe a minister’s driver or a messenger or better still an Air Malta employee or even in Enemalta or WSC) when Labour is elected.
You cannot understand that with the Labour Party’s attitude to the economy and the future of this country, the ones who will really suffer are persons of your type and social standing.
Others who are successful thanks to their own initiative and who do not not require government support, will either be even better off or, if they are in a worse position here in Malta, they have what it takes to move away for work (thanks to the PN and certainly not to Joseph ‘No-to-Europe-Made-in-Brussels’ Muscat).
Ahjar is-sur Bencini jiftakar ftit kemm giet attakkata l-edukazzjoni, ma riduniex nitghallmu biex nibqghu lura, u minflok noqoghdu mmorru ghand il-ministru Laburista biex itina linja tat-telefown!
U llum kulhadd bit-telecell (aka mobile phone). Mur ghidli li se nitla fuq ix-xarabank u npoggi hdejn soru li flok izzebbeg kuruna jkollha f’idejha iphone! Dan missu jghid Bencini u z-Zarb! U btw kien hemm il-crew tal-Air Malta wkoll ta’ fil-protesta……is it true that their wages are getting fatter and fatter due to their collective agreement and the other KM workers have been forgotten? Thanks, GWU, u thanks, ministru Tonio Fenech!
I believe, but could be wrong, that the Air Malta crew were there on a personal basis and not as a union – this is something that I heard through the grapevine and I do not have a positive confirmation.
The Air Malta unions took part in the protest officially. Lou Bondi mentioned them and remarked that, for example, cabin crew (basically the stewards who seat passengers, distribute meals, etc) get 3000€ a month. They were at Valletta saying that they could not afford to pay their bills.
“Traitors to the people”, “se nzommuh responsabbli”, “naraw min huma dawk it-tradituri”. Going back to the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties … Mintoffian language and threats at their ‘best’. I’m sure Tony Zarb is not including me in the people. Progressive and moderate, my foot.
So what’s wrong with being a Robin Hood, Elle? If someone, somewhere ever ran an independent poll asking the question “Was Robin Hood a hero or a villain” we both know what the answer will be…by a huge margin!
[Daphne – Robin Hood operated in a feudal system, Frank, and not in a 21st-century democratic member state of the European Union.]
There’s nothing wrong with being Robin Hood. I would even commend it if the situation calls for it and if the person employed is a truly selfless genuine person.
But this is not a situation where the “greedy rich” are stealing from the poor. The whole country will be charged the same tariffs – remember? And also, Robin Hood and his band of merry men lived meagrely in the forest, incognito, and got their adrenaline rush from helping the poor and not from parading and chanting away in front of the masses to calm that socialist conscience and gain political mileage.
But if the people need some soothing right now then someone must come up with the balm, and there’s nothing better than a march through Valletta on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
I agree that the PL is Robin Hood, a fairy tale without substance!
They are ashamed to wave the torca, Daphne. Gonzi shouldn’t be worried at all – that pantomime yesterday in Valletta was attended by the usual suspects who turn up to Labour meetings when they have nothing else to do on a Sunday afternoon and free buses are laid on by their kazin.
Irrespective, Daphne, his motive still makes him a hero to most fair-minded people.
[Daphne – I think you mean insufficiently educated people, Frank, not fair-minded ones. Do you know that the vast majority of new electors – even those raised by Labour-voting parents – voted PN in the last general election? I know some of them struggled with their conscience: loyalty to their parents’ wishes versus their own judgement, but in the end their own judgement won out. Mintoff raised a socialist generation (or tried to and failed, really, because what he did was make us permanently angry at Labour) by denying us education. The Nationalist government played the same card in reverse, as a by-product of making sure that the country had an educated workforce. If you actually had experience of life in Malta, as I do, and the ability to sit and assess situations (as you probably do), then you would see quite clearly that when educated people support Labour, it is for very specific reasons: they have been raised in Labour households and cannot bring themselves to break with tradition because they have been brainwashed, they have some kind of resentment towards the other party and want to exact amorphous revenge, or they are just generally chippy. Then there are those with a personality problem who think they are doing something renegade by coming from a tal-pepe background and voting Labour – a sort of wet version of the Patty Hearst syndrome.]
What do they think they are doing by going to Valletta, waving their hands and shouting TONY! TONY!
Do they imagine that if Joseph Muscat becomes prime minister he is going to reduce the utilities bills? All this fuss is to get people’s attention bytrying to show that they care and they know what people are going through. Yes, right.
From Maltarightnow.com today: Ħanut tal-kafe’ ġdid fil-Belt Valletta qed jiċċelebra l-ftuħ tiegħu b’tazza kafe’ b’xejn tul il-jum tat-Tnejn, l-ewwel ta’ Marzu. Bejn is-7am u t-3pm, oh!food, li jinsab fi Triq il-Merkanti, qed joffri espresso jew capuccino b’xejn, mingħajr il-bżonn li wieħed jixri xi ħaġa oħra.
It is a pity that this establishment did not make this gesture yesterday evening so that Zarb/Bencini would have had the opportunity to tell their audience how the government should operate. Joseph Muscat might wish to include the idea in his new 20-year model. I am sure today will be a success for this new establishment as the ‘everything for free’ syndrome is part of the Maltese culture now.
I am glad that he has not made cuts (but indulged in cuts of perzut galore) where food is concerned….every bit of contribution to the ailing Maltese economy helps.
From all this my opinion is that Bencini has become a puppet of the GWU and the MUT is now a branch of the General Workers Union.
‘Traitors of the people’ said Tony Zarb, aided by John Bencini and Pawlu Pace: Stalinist slang used by supposed progressives and moderates.
Aided and abetted, also, by the Union of University Academics (something like that).
Oh, so the GWU has come out of hibernation, as it did during the 22-month stint when the Labour was in ‘power’.
I thought that Bencini was a different type of man to those found in the GWU. Does he represent the teachers or does he have a different agenda? After listening Tony Zarb I could not picture Bencini and Pace in the same mediocre scene.
I am anxious to watch Ridley Scott’s “Robin” with Russell Crowe. Remember “Gladiator”? I loved the part Oliver Reed played as Proximo as well. At times I find blogs to be like modern amphitheatres; we have to thumb up or down the performance of the selected “gladiators”.
[Daphne – The thumb signal was for death or life, not a verdict on the performance.]
There was no ‘thumb up’ signal. The thumb was either pointed down or tucked away inside the hand.
Actually that was wrong too, the thumb was used to simulate cutting the throat for death, no thumbs down.
Remember the member Oliver Reed used to stir his coffee at that restaurant in Spinola?
Some Unions do have wrong priorities……We the people need work and not bullies in the street. It is well known that too many subsidies have ruined the country.
Nothing the GWU does surprises me but John Bencini should know much better – dialogue is nowhere to be found in his dictionary. With him it’s now full frontal and personal agendas.
Anton Buttigieg had once said that the Labour Party is elected through ignorance.. need I say anymore.
[Daphne – And the grinding of axes…]
Traitors of the people – straight out of the Soviet playbook.
From his choice of bedfellows it would appear Bencini’s memory is either short or flagging. Does he remember the teachers strike in 1984?
Maybe he should re-read his own interview in Malta Today.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2002/10/06/people.html
No prizes for guessing which “Union thugs” he is referring to in the interview. Perhaps he should re-read it also with a view to comparing the problems faced by his union before 1988 and those after and see the difference in scale.
Does he remember the MLP distributing lists of striking teachers names and addresses to MLP clubs in each locality so they could post them on their notice boards? With the obvious violent results he describes?
Has he also forgotten these more recent words in concluding that 2002 interview:
Q: So what next for the future of the teaching profession, Mr Bencini?
A: “Europe. As a union we have declared we are 100% in favour of EU accession. We see Malta in the EU, a truly democratic organisation. Only the EU can guarantee that there will be no repetitions of the 1980s. And that if ever another Maltese attempts to do what happened in the 1980s, the EU can act as a shield of democracy. The EU is a club for solidarity and democracy, as we have clearly seen in the case of Haider in Austria. I just cannot think of an island as small as Malta remaining isolated.
“My opinion is that it is better to have a voice inside than a voice outside.”
Strange bedfellows indeed…..
Good one, Mike!
When will the Labour Party begin to understand that undecided voters HATE seeing it closely associated with a workers’ movement?
This relationship has been going on for decades, and people just don’t like it. They do not trust an uneducated semi-literate GWU leader who has no basic sense of political leadership. How can someone who presents a report but fails to divulge its authorship be taken seriously?
We know that Tony Zarb is a lost cause but Joseph Muscat, if he is really as progressive as he tells us, should know better.
How can someone be taken seriously when his union opposes EU membership and then commissions reports to justify itself only to lock them away because their conclude that EU membership is a positive move?
John Bencini became president of CMTU when Alfred Buhagiar had passed away. If I am not mistaken he did not serve the full term as president because the next CMTU elections were held when Alfred Buhagiar’s time was up.
William Portelli, who is the current president, had contested those elections successfully. This did not go down well with John Bencini. In fact, the MUT had pulled out of the CMTU, and from that day on things went from bad to worse with all the other unions. It was then that the GWU accepted the MUT.
I have no doubt that when John Bencini decides to quit the MUT presidency, this same union will change tack. When I speak to teachers and say something like ‘Hemm x’intkom taghmlu?’, the reply is that if there is another independent union which is ready to form a teachers’ section they would immediately shift their membership.
“My opinion is that it is better to have a voice inside than a voice outside.”
What’s changed, Mr. Bencini?
Have principles become pieces of elastic?
It seems that Joseph Muscat is set to reverse most of the “distancing” policies which his predecessor Alfred Sant had pursued, including retaining some distance from the GWU. This will of course ensure that Joseph recovers some of the old lost sheep, but he is now set to lose others – those who are progressive and moderate.
Do these people watch the international news? Greece was in the same situation with the socialist party protesting against the government…and now look at them full of debts! The weakness of Joseph Muscat’s and Tony Zarb’s planning and foresight is incredible.
Of course they do. That’s where they get their inspiration. “Ninzlu fit-toroq. Bhal ma qeghdin jaghmlu barra” and to hell with the context and reasons.
“What if Labour find a much worse financial situation than they presently know about as happened in 1996? What if the price of oil in the international market doubles? Would they be raising the basic utility rates so as to make the surcharge irrelevant? Would they be funding this by raising other taxes? Would they compromise our commitment to maintain a balanced budget as from 2010? And those already exempt from the surcharge – aren’t they feeling left out from such a measure that would ease the burden for the well-off who can afford to overuse energy whatever it costs while leaving social cases in the cold?”
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=65741
Two years ago Alfred Mifsud asked what would Labour do. We have no answer yet.
Mela Humpty Dumpty ghadu jejx fil-politika ta’ zmien Mintoff?
Tony, who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?
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