No wonder he is writing letters galore begging to be let in the EU parliament where the salary is much higher than a Malta MP.

Seems that one is a loser in the LP and a loser even out of the party!

“When Muscat was elected leader of the PL, he carried on as an MEP for a few months.”

I suspect he carried on those few months to ensure he was eligible for his MEP pension.

MPs got a rise – I can’t remember the actual amount – when we only got a 50 pence pay rise.

When I pointed out this difference in the pay rise, an MLP supporter told me that ther are relatively few MPs and wouldn’t cost the taxpayer that much.

Also In Mintoff’s time, MPs became entitled to two pensions while the rest of us got only one, and I believe workers could only get the 2/3 pension and couldn’t get another even if they paid for it privately.

In fact many private companies which had a pension scheme stopped them. Because of this pension law, widows of ex servicemen, to whom the Thatcherite government issued a pension, had the English pension deducted from their Maltese one. So much for Mr. Mintoff’s love of the needy.

[Daphne – Don’t forget that Joseph Muscat wasn’t elected by The People, and that he couldn’t become Opposition leader for some time after he was elected party leader. The Constitution doesn’t give a damn about whether you are the party leader or not. The only thing it cares about is that you have a seat in the house. And he didn’t. So there was a major crisis there until that found that sucker Joseph Cuschieri and browbeat him into giving up his ghas-sahha tal-partit. But isn’t this just typical of the Labour Party’s ‘do first and think later’ approach? Imagine allowing somebody to contest the party leadership when they don’t have a seat in the house. What were they planning on doing if they couldn’t find a poor sod to strong-arm into giving up his?]