24 hours in, and things are getting desperate already at therealbudget.com
They’ve been reduced to quoting Maltastar’s leading article.
So inspirational.
Diary note: Buy milk. Ring Tom. Remember to vote Labour.
Here it is.
What’s in this Budget for Gonzi PN?
The PM and those paid out of our taxes to prop him up, clearly think the Budget is not an economic tool, but a PR exercise to help Gonzi stay in power.
No wonder PBS brought footage from Italy and Greece. Leaders have been toppled there and Gonzi’s toppling seems to be the only current obsession left in the PN. After leading an unnecessary vote of confidence to show us the PM is still in charge we were yesterday feasted to a Budget which the man on the street views as cynically electoral.
It is easy to see why. Most leaders are benevolent when economies are booming and tough when times get tougher. Not in Malta!
Tonio Fenech as reported on the front page of the Independent yesterday seemed to be implying he was tough with us when times weren’t bad, so now he can afford to be kind to us, or not to have austere measures when so much is very seriously wrong in the Eurozone.
It’s not merely upside down politics
It’s just playing with people’s minds. The truth is very different. For the last three and a half years, the PM still chose to have very austere measures, not least the infamous water and electricity bills, although they are now saying things weren’t that bad?
Now that an election is coming up in the next year and a half or sooner, the PN is attempting a repeat of 2008. It desperately wants to get back the haemorrhage of middle class voters that left it after its promise to lower taxes never materialised.
We ask Tonio Fenech. If times were not that bad why did you not reduce income tax as promised in the previous three years? More importantly why did you promise it if you had no intention of keeping it?
Now it is good that pensioners over 80 are going to get some relief and it is certainly good if families with children are really going to be helped with the new tax band for parents.
However this Budget is doing nothing to steer us away from the dark clouds to the north of us, nothing to make us the best in Europe. Gonzi PN’s spin machine can only compare us to those who are performing the worst, as the winners of their policies are not the Maltese people but Gonzi PN themselves.
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Oh, there was me thinking that this site was set up by Karmenu Vella to propose an alternative budget model that he would have presented in Parliament instead of Tonio Fenech.
If you had the pleasure of watching Dr. Lawrence Gonzi, our Prime Minister and leader of the Nationalist Party, on Bondi+ yesterday, you would have heared all the answers to the above.
But it seems envy and spite are still two stong elements in the Labour Party, as it was when Sceberras Trigona, Grima, Karmenu Vella and the rest, were in power.Again, spite and envy are still crystal clear evidence that the PL has not learned a thing during all these years in opposition, where, it is sincerely hoped, they will again find themselves after next election – simply because they have absolutely no ideas.
I’ve just seen Anglu tat-Taks Fors in Valletta sporting a jacket and trousers from two different suits: thick pin-striped trousers and a plain jacket in different shades of black, both several sizes to big for him, nibbling pensively on a white smart phone.
REALTA’ was excellent yesterday. Very balanced.
Well done Mr.Hansford!!
I like the !!!!!!!!!!!!
It makes a certainty out of the initial suspicion that this is an advert for what is a below-par product.
Anybody told them that education is still free from kindergarten up to a masters level?
That is what moves the country towards being the best in Europe.
To have a knowledge-based economy you need human resources, otherwise you have to poach the brains to Malta with a significant expense, ergo back to square one.
Robert Musumeci = Jason Micallef …according to Saviour Balzan.
http://i43.tinypic.com/22c5g8.jpg
I had a look at what the site had to say, before even tying to chase snippets from other sources.
It was very underwhelming. A partisan pot shot with a nice front end.
I don’t mind Labour keeping its cards to the chest until electioneering starts in earnest, but if this is the quality we’ll be getting then I cannot put any fate in Muscat’s party. Even with the new logo.
Maltastar’s report seems to be one sentence short. I wonder why?
A reporter worth his salt would have at least given us an indication of what his favourite Party’s policies would have been under the circumstances.
He couldn’t because it hasn’t and it won’t.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzJB7kXwzrw
See 04:12
I particularly enjoyed……’an election is coming up in the next year and a half OR SOONER…….’
Sooner than ‘in the next year an a half’ would mean in the past! Before, well……NOW!
My God I do believe il-Guy may have invented time travel. So THAT’S what he’s been up to when we thought he was working on PLMLP election policies!
This is extremely embarrassing! Shouldn’t every site have an editor and a fact checker?
I was watching a press conference headed by Karmenu Vella. All the speakers’ name-cards had one word – ‘Ghaqal’ – printed on them. Is everyone in Labour called ‘ghaqal’ now? It looked so stupid.
If only they had any, I’d have fewer nightmares!
That’s a minor mistake.
They meant ‘Laghqa’
Who’s the woman doing the voice-over in the realbudget clips?
This newsletter is a highly technical analysis of the budget and a truly inspirational way of educating the electorate.
The harsh reality is that when you ask L-orizzont readers what ‘Prodott Gross Domestiku’ is, they stare back at you, even though they have just been reading about it.
Indeed their Leader doesn’t help much either. Here’s his way of saying that this budget is good as it will be giving the people a lot:
“Se nżommu lill-Prim Ministru u lill-Ministru tal-Finanzi responsabbli tal-kalkoli li qegħdin jagħmlu u nittamaw li meta niġu biex nagħmlu l-kontijiet ma nsibux li rridu niddejnu aktar,” qal Muscat.
Not very clever, especially when considering that this is our future prime minister.