Maltastar: Now reduced to lying outright
Read this snippet from The Times today:
9,430 utility suspension letters in a year
Throughout 2009 the number of letters issued threatening suspension of water and electricity for failure to pay bills was 9,430, according to Finance Minister Tonio Fenech.
He was answering a parliamentary question by Anthony Agius Decelis (PL).
Now read Maltastar’s reportage of the same parliamentary reply:
No water and electricity for 9,000 families who can’t pay bills
Over 9,000 families had their water and electricity supplies cut last year, because they couldn’t pay their bills.
The Minister of Finance Tonio Fenech said this in reply to a parliamentary question by Labour MP Anthony Agius Decelis last night.
Unbelievable. Sorry – entirely believable.
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Idiots! There is no other word to describe them. Idiots.
This is sooooooooooo sad. I want to weep.
They just missed the word ‘threatening’. U dawn mhux dejjem jaghmluha fatta. For example, they are always so sure of winning elections which they eventually lose.
They didn’t miss it. That was deliberate.
Allow me to be a smartass – perhaps 9,430 letters were issued, and uhhh, precisely 9,000 families had their utilities suspended?
[Daphne – None had their utilities suspended. If it had happened to even one person, you can be sure that this tragic family, complete with weeping children in their ragged clothes, would be plastered over every bit of media owned by the Labour Party and John Dalli Today. Let alone 9,000 families.]
Allow me to be a smart ass.
Could it be that ‘Ta Times’ is lying?
They must suffer in silence, all 32,000 of them!
Not surprised, Maltastar is in the same category as The Beano.
please don’t insult The Beano…please
Oh, please. The Beano is amusingly *witty*. Maltastar is unwittingly amusing.
Defaulters are simply asked to start paying off their bill by paying a fixed sum every month according to their means.
Wow, that’s 7% of households. Imsieken.
Must have been a boom year for candle sellers though.
Tajba tal-candle sellers, Alan!
Most probably most of these found the “threatening” letter in the letter box when they returned from a Norman Hamilton cruise and after switching on the satellite TV receiver; after parking the two cars in the garage and after checking whether there were any wins on the Super Five plus bingo tickets.
Good point. Who’s taking all those cruises that help to keep Hamilton Travel afloat?
Entirely unbelievable but, sadly, very true.
When the majority of his readers are morons this type of reporting is known as licence: the editor feels free to feed them trash.
I was most surprised, recently, when a family who regularly goes begging professionally from door to door, complete with a youngster screaming on cue, was spotted going on a holiday tour to Paris.
On their return they had the cheek to knock on our door again begging for money.
I bet that they were among the 9000 or so who were threatened to pay for their electricity – or else – without having their water and electricity supply actually cut off.