Being prepared and eager to work is a given which does not guarantee a prosperous Malta – and judging by the people they are pushing forward I cannot see the prosperous happening!

Unless northern Europe syphons off its money to southern Europe, the eurozone is bound to fail and is already failing, as the British gleefully keep pointing out. However, people in this country remain oblivious of the precariousness of the euro.

You are quite right about the ‘worth-nothing university degree’. Some degree courses at the University of Malta are of dubious quality, run by people of dubious academic pedigree, or should I say pay-degree.

He states, amongst other things, that ‘Gozo should be a centre for government’s processing centres in tax, inland revenue and social security. That way employment there will be given a boost’

How’s that for efficiency? Having to plod up to Gozo to meet the taxman.

Gives a new meaning to the term ‘tax break’.

I couldn’t find it, so I have no idea what they are talking about.

But above all, how exactly do you measure a “40% decline in potential activity”?

In fact I see no evidence of any of it whatsoever.

Neither do eighty percent of the business community for that matter.

This figure of 40% decline in potential activity is, at best, fatuous.

These people are not even capable of amateur dabbling.