Comments on: Somebody at Malta Today understands that it's not all about Lawrence Gonzi

By: joshua agius

joshua agius — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:42:18 +0000

Watch and forward to your friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_GYTrLHek

By: fran

fran — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:52:48 +0000

The problem with Malta Today is Roger and Saviour. I think Roger should be ashamed of himself being party to the crap that is usually printed on Malta Today. Whilst talking about problems, the problem with the Labour Party is definitely that f**kwit Muscat.

By: Fair deal

Fair deal — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:10:54 +0000

Qedin sew issa, veru ma jafux jisthu . Mela l-ewwel wahda Marie Louise Coleiro harget tghid biex lill-parlamentari innehulhom l-ghotja ta’ 4 tickets tal-Air Malta. Issa qed
jitgholbu 1500 euro bhala travelling allowance. Zgur li erba tickets tal-Air Malta ma kienux jiswew 1500 euro. Zieda bill-pulit. Hallas, ja poplu.

By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:52:44 +0000

The sooner somebody tells this Joey that Malta, the Mediterranean and the rest of the world stretch beyond Burmarrad the better.

By: rigu

rigu — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:21:57 +0000

I have just heard that the Opposition want to hang onto an allowance for Air Malta flights for the remainder of the year in lieu of free flights – because of the qada imwergha fl’Air Malta. Addio generosita u s-solidarjeta mal-poplu.

By: K Farrugia

K Farrugia — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:17:32 +0000

Oh, another gaffe by Silvio Parnis
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110201/local/health-minister-pn-see-discrimination-in-mps-question

By: ciccio2011

ciccio2011 — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:33:07 +0000

The Opposition, led in this case by Anglu Farrugia, has just proposed “the appointment of a high-powered permanent commission to come up with a mechanism to establish the remuneration of the President, the Prime Minister, ministers, parliamentary secretaries, the Speaker, the leader of the opposition, related holders of political office and the honoraria of MPs. The remuneration would be relative to salaries in the public sector. The proposed salaries would be made public immediately and would come into force from the next legislature. Opposition was proposing that the Commission would be made up of the Ombudsman, the Auditor-General and the Chief Electoral Commission, all of whom hold institutional posts.”

How can persons holding Constitutional posts, hence of equal standing to those of the Cabinet members, PM, Leader of the Opposition and MPs, decide on the pay of the latter?
Especially when one considers that the roles of the Ombudsman and the Auditor-General depend on their independence from Parliament and executive government?

Why does the Opposition believe that the next legislature will coincide with the right time to make salary changes to MPs and ministers?

Another piece of poor thinking from the Opposition.

By: Stephen Forster

Stephen Forster — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:32:44 +0000

Shame it was a blog and not the editorial.

By: mc

mc — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:27:18 +0000

This evening, the Opposition proposed the appointment of a high-powered permanent commission made up of the Ombudsman, the Auditor-General and the Chief Electoral Commission to decide on the salaries of holders of political office, including ministers and MPs.

It seems to me a nonsensical proposal. These people occupy posts whose responsibilities and mode of operation are defined in legislation. Labour wants to put them together in a committee, like in a big pot of stew, to decide on something which is totally outside their remit.

Why not put in the secretary, the messenger and the cleaner who work in parliament for good measure?

Following the let’s-play-parasite-on-other-peoples’-misfortunes gaffe, I am convinced more than ever that these people haven’t the foggiest idea what they are doing.

By: ciccio2011

ciccio2011 — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:05:37 +0000

We have already had too many examples of this crass attitude, including leaving the prime minister, the King of Spain, and a plane full of passengers waiting for him to turn up, and his on-again-off-again appearances at public ceremonies late last summer after an alleged leg injury which, however, did not stop him from taking a cruise.