1.05 million euros to Dom Mintoff? I don't remember Joseph Muscat making a fuss about that.
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January 21, 2011 at 4:37pm
Joseph Muscat, his merry men and all the usual suspects whining in ‘Swieqi’ about how ministers ‘paid themselves a salary increase’ might wish to note that it will take rather a lot of these increases to make up the 1.05 MILLION EUROS paid to just one man, Dom Mintoff, as compensation for being deprived of his view from L-Gharix. He got to keep L-Gharix as well, incidentally – it wasn’t requisitioned.
Frigging hypocrites, the lot of them.
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“as compensation for being deprived of his view from L-Gharix”
That’s one hell of a view I can tell you! And the smell of fresh air in that area reminds me of the Bavarian Alps.
But Daphne, Mintoff is a SAVIOUR. He saved us from…from..from….
The only things he saved were his skin and his money. And to top off his savings, he was given another 1.05 million euro. Yet, he was the one who brought real austerity to this country, known to this day as “issikkar tac-cintorin.” Which is probably why he carried one with a big “bokkla.”
… the man in a wig.
… from Sant governing for a full term?
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And then he gets free hospitalisation, even though he was probably too important to pay his national insurance.
Do you remember Ninu Zammit? He got close to Euro 200k. But my father, for instance, Mr. Nobody got Euro 5,000 only for a strip of land twice the size of that of Ninu Zammit. By the way, my father’s case dates back only 2 years.
[Daphne – Both Zammit’s case and your father’s were compensation for requisition. In other words, they got the money but they lost the land. Mintoff’s was different. He kept the land and the house and got Lm450,000 for pain and suffering, which is far, far more than that hideous shack in a downmarket area is worth.]
Ok granted and I do not accept the decision taken with regards to Mintoff’s case, but still if you had to compare my father’s case with that of Ninu Zammit, don’t tell me that rural land in Place A is more expensive than that in Place B. And if that was the case, still, the difference in compensation is astronomical.
This is what really pisses me off in politics – the lack of uniformity when political people are compared to common citizens.
In the Mintoff case the Constitutional Court in its appellate jurisdiction decided that what the Government had done was tantamount to requisitioning his property, and that by not outright requisitioning the property the government was attempting to avoid compensating him for the loss in value of the property.
So, even legally, the Court considered Government action to be a virtual requisition and in awarding the comepnsation it was mindful that the property was going to be kept by the claimant.
Furthermore, the Government in requisitoning the property ought is bound to provide adequate compensation. In the Magro case, they simply ought not have accepted that paltry figure and fought it all the way to the ECHR.
Why did I get a duplicate comment error here?
That kind of money will buy his daughter a top notch Florida holiday home. A far cry from the miserable Eur20,000 they collected for the new emblem.
Who was the judge who came to this decision? Couldn’t the Attorney Genera’s office appeal? Or the prime minister?
My point is, these things happen to both sides of the political elite while the common people, we get peanuts.
Don’t forget that he’s their Salvatur. If they whisper a word against him they might lose some votes from the suldati tal-azzar.
If a Salvatur is worth 1 million euro, how much is a Traitor worth?
I don’t think I can hold my bladder that long.
Start filling jerry-cans, H.P.
I think I’ll hire one of those bright yellow turboprop firefighting planes. There’s none of the close-quarters charm, but it gets the job done in one go. Unlike jerry-cans.
And the bl**dy bastard is still on and about.
Ghadu jferfer
“Malta and Maltese MEPs punch above their weight. Malta was amongst the last EU member states to enter recession and amongst the first to emerge, something the Maltese government and citizens can be proud of.”
– Jerzy Buzek – President of the European Parliament
Tal-Biki!
From timesofmalta.com
mario gellel
“We face common challenges – rising international food and oil prices, immigration, climate change, energy security. Malta’s concerns are Europe’s concerns.”said EP President Buzek .
BUT WE HAVE SOMETHING ELSE THAT NO EU COUNTRY HAS >> A GREEDY, OUTDATED SELFISH ,AND OUT OF TOUCH GOVERMENT.
Hmm.. One of the Caps Lock Brigade.
You will never see this lot kicking Mintoff. These guys are treating Old Dom like George Cini treated Strada Stretta in his book.
It is becoming glaringly obvious that Joseph wants to be likened to Is-Salvatur ta’ Malta. For those who don’t have an idea of what Dom Mintoff was in his ‘heyday’ I would suggest to them a discussion with some fifty-year-olds who lived the ‘best days of their lives’ under his rule.
Note to the PN politicians: everybody is bound to die, just like Philip Muscat, George Hyzler, and Renato Agius Muscat did lately…….please do not eulogise ‘il-perit’ when he departs. Just say “Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine” and that he left his imprint on Maltese society for more years to come and hope we won’t have another one like him.
How many millions of Maltese Liri are we paying for the write-off of the debts of the Dockyard and for the millions he lost in one fell swoop when he gambled our money from the “House of the four winds”?
But the 1.05 million euros was justified compensation for bringing down the Labour administration in ’98. Who paid the 1.05 million? The tax payer – and Joseph Muscat didn’t make a fuss about the 50 million paid to the drydocks either. Like they say – other people’s MONEY!
Ah my point and contempt that I have for politicians.They help each other while Tom , Dick and Harry never get compensated for any injustice done to them or if they do they get crumbs.
how would I know if my comment will be published or not?
My grandpa was a policeman and I remember him telling us how Mintoff used to tell his crowd that if needs be they would even take/collect their wedding rings and shockingly enough in response to such statement the crowd would cheer and clap in approval.
Mussolini collected wedding rings to finance the war in Abyssinia after the League of Nations imposed sanctions on Italy in the 1930s.
I don’t see much difference. Both were dictatorships and the 80s weren’t very far away from Italy’s 30s.