After Elton John and the Golden Circle: Jet Set Tony flies off to protest
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September 30, 2010 at 3:46pm
Dalwaqt napplika biex insir MEP ha nitla Brussel klabb kless.
The Labour Party media tells us proudly today that the GWU was the only Maltese union demonstrating in Brussels along with tens of thousands of people protesting against spending cuts and belt-tightening in the public sector.
Ah, so Tony Zarb and his General Workers Union defend impoverished Maltese families by milking their members to pay for trips to Brussels to protest against job losses in the private sector in Malta.
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What cheek! And the workers are not even aware of the salary Tony Zarb gets from the union.
Any idea of what that would be?
Maltastar reported the story as: “GWU protests about families in financial straits”
What sort of English is this?
They probably had Strait Street, a stone-throw away from South Street, when they wrote this.
I believe it exists in English, though.
It has to be preceded by “dire”.
When, for a full sixteen years belt-tightening was the official government slogan, the GWU never did as much as go for a walk down South street in protest.
Now they can afford to fly all the way to Brussels and pay for board and lodging to fight windmills .
They have never had it so good, to quote Harold Macmillan.
Prosit Anthony!
And they are not even restricted by a limit of Lm200 (that’s 466 Euros, for the benefit of the younger ones) to cover all travel expenses, including hotel fees, food and spending money. Remember those days?
If pigs could fly!
That one just did.
You seem to miss an important fact.
This weekend is ‘The Malta in the European Parliament Week’ with all the parties and receptions for the big shots.
You’d think that Tony would miss it?
He’s not alone. There’s a total of 18 delegates from the GWU. For a couple more delegates, the group leader woulld have travelled for free.
Tony Zarb @ the Sheraton on Place Rogier. Oh yeah.
Does this remind you of anyone?
http://xavierng.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/barbapapa.jpg
In these difficult times, when, according to the GWU and the PL, workers are finding it really hard to make ends meet, the least one would expect from the GWU is that they themselves do some “belt-tightening” and cut down on their unnecessary expenses. A protest holiday in Brussels is surely an event the union could do without.