Please may I have a party at Montekristo?
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November 14, 2011 at 10:40pm
My, I learned through First magazine yesterday that even Marlene Mizzi’s daughter’s wedding reception was held at ic-Caqnu’s Montekristo estate. He really is Labour’s NBF (new best friend, my dears).
But all that effort is beginning to pay some kind of dividend. I watched the budget headlines scroll across the screen on Super One.
DAQQA TA’ HARTA LILL-INDUSTRIJA TAL-BINI. IZJED TAXXI FUQ IS-SIMENT.
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Reply to Harry Purdie Click here to cancel reply
Haha.
It would explain why Brain Hansford’s heart was bleeding for the increase in import duty on cement.
“Brian Hansford The minister also announced €3 per tonne increase in import duty on cement. wow this is good news for all those building contractors”.
A tax on cement.
Like an ant raping an elephant.
Blokcrete and blockheads.
It’s not all that impossible,but just imagine it the other way.
Now that would be something .
This is outrageous.
I never voted gonZiPn for an increase in task on cement.
Three euro per tonne.
Ma jarawx wicc’Alla.
A tax on cement! We shall all starve!
Referendum!
Free vote, and make it one of conscience.
I will not be swayed. My principles are cast in concrete.
Seriously now, I suppose we’ll just have to go back to living in giren (that’s “Maltese corbelled sonte huts” for Harry Purdie). And there I was, hoping to invest in cleaner energy and solar water heaters and double glazing.
Now concrete prices will skyrocket, Caqnu will be reduced to begging in the (un-asphalted) streets, and nothing will remain but the hope of cheaper utility bills in 2013. Or cheaper oil. Or gas.
Or cold fusion. Or zero-point energy. Or whatever it is.
Baxxter, spent a night in a giren once. Reminded me of a Canadian eskimo igloo–spent a couple of nights in one also. Was very impressed that no concrete, ashphalt,or cold fusion energy were involved. (in the giren, the igloo only uses ice,)
Innovative people back then. Where are they now? Certainly not in a ‘heap of shit’.
Yep. Dry-stone buildings (is this the right term?) are found all over the place in Sardinia, Southern Italy and especially Provence. That’s one element of Maltese heritage which I’d love to see preserved. Together with the skills of course. I’m told “sejjieh u tal-fiel” experts are a dying breed.
Gvern bla qalb!
Is-siment ghola issa!
Forsi ghax se tigi gholja l-gallarija. X’sar minnha? Hargilhom il-permess?
It was being used for porridge. It’s a good source of calcium, you know.
What poor taste. A wedding at Montekristo? It must have been sponsored…
The place is huge and impressive but the decor is kitsch and the right definition is “post tal-hamalli”.
A comment on Maltastar:
reno – 15 November 2011 00:05
“Nothing done to us contractors who try hard to keep maltese workers earning a onest liveing.but putting more to destroy us with putting up prices on cement thankyou once more p.n . how can we keep prices low on property.”
Il-kahhala bla ktieb li jpejpu zewg pakketti Du Maurier kuljum l-aghar li ntlaqtu minn dan il-budget.
X’dizastru se jaqa fuqna!
That’s it now. I’ll have to give up my cement addiction. Can’t afford it anymore.
Cement Anonymous will be opening its doors soon for all those suffering from withdrawal symptoms.
“Hello, my name is Johannes and I am a cement addict. I first started dabbling in cement when I joined my dad. I should really have been at school, but the pull towards cement was too much for me. I can still remember my first encounter with cement; the smell of it, that bland colour all around me, walking knee deep in it with my work boots…
“I could go on and on. But I guess your experience must be the same as mine. And then I moved from small boat houses to garages and then to flats and finally to large blocks, and before I knew it i was hooked, hooked on cement.
“But now that the cost has gone up to 3 euro per tonne, I know, I just know that I have to stop here before it’s too late”.
http://cementlover.blogspot.com/
Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.
(yes, some people are very very weird).
Forsi jonqos xi ftit il bini spjetat li tiela madwarna – anzi 3 euro ftit.
If anyone doubts Labour’s true agenda, this should clarify.
Let them insist on consumption for its own sake, declaring mobility, energy and urban development as vote swapping exercises, ignoring sustainability.
They live in the 90s, given the systematic censoring of the past twenty years.
I expect another dismal performance at the university.
Wasn’t Miriam Dalli’s wedding reception held there too?
[Daphne – I imagine so, given that she married Karmenu Vella’s son.]
Maybe one day, a reporter might ask her whether she paid for the catering and for the venue rental.
Why is Labour worried about a tax on cement? It hasn’t yet come up with any concrete plans for the country.
Din ghogbitni.
I vote to make it the Comment of the Week.
The European Bank is forecasting anaemic growth or recession for most EU member states. Yet the Maltese government has just announced a generous budget.
Our neighbours in the EU had to implement austerity measures in their budgets while in Malta it’s party time.
Did we discover oil? Could it be the next election is coming in March, one year sooner?
I had no idea that the economy is this strong. Didn’t I hear Joseph Muscat telling us that the people don’t have money to buy steak any more?
Taf minn jkun bla qalb?
Min jghid mod, imbghad kif forsi jiehu r-riedni tal-pajjiz f’idejh jaghmel mod iehor. Ghalhekk ma jikkometiex ruhu min qabel, imma imbaghad fatta la zorba, ja poplu jkun tard wisq, ahsbuha sewwa,
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249012725152272
Transcript from Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s Facebook wall today:
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando: Nawguraw li l-girien taghna jimxu l-quddiem wara l-avvenimenti politici ta’ dawn l-ahhar jiem
Doris Catania: ahjar tawgura lil maltin ghax minflok il/quddim sejrin lura bhal granc
Robert Musumeci: Xhieda ta’ kemm il- faxex politici ma jistghux jibqghu jimxu ghal rashom u kemm huwa vitali il- kunsens idejologiku
Isa Bartoli: tkellem ghalik doris hi
Joseph Falzon: tkunx mielha ira mela ma dqx ghall widnejk
Isa Bartoli: mhux affarijik hi
Louis Pace: Hi Robert how about a €500 a week sounds to what you said…
Joseph Falzon: mela bhal gvern lghandkom dak ma jatix kas maltakisirna gonzipn
Isa Bartoli: ommi ma x intom mahruqin tistennew 20 sena
Joseph Falzon: hazin ghalik
Isa Bartoli excuse me ?
Joseph Falzon: hazin ghalik fejn trid tifhem nahseb u ikteb bil malti jew int x daqxeen poshy
Isa Bartoli: yes im poshy sorry
Joseph Falzon: poshy tmur tniehi il hmieg tal pazjenti
Isa Bartoli: isma jien ma ajjartekx ta ar ama mmurx inehhi tieghi ah xih zmagat
Isa Bartoli: ara nispicca inehhilek tieghek ghax jizloqlok
Joseph Falzon: ma xjuh nitfek mhux fil boghod
Isa Bartoli: dan li ktibt hawn ghand il puluiza ham mmur bih biex tkun taf
Isa Bartoli: ara x inti thgid
Rebecca Paris: pfff bla sens e ….both of you..aqtawa naqa xi zikk veru jahasra qas haqq kulhadt andu opinjoni ma nahsibx li andkom alfej taslu b da diskors
Isa Bartoli: sorry ta u qabada fuq ix xoghol li namel jien u namlu ghax proud ima li jghid li jibatni max xjuh din ghal ghand il puluzija
Isa Bartoli: qed jghid li jaghtini transfer kieku biss ix xjuh xorta ghandmom bzonni mhux problema
Rebecca Paris: li tkun nurse huwa xol rispetabli u dedikazjoni imens u ija karriera sabieha u allahres ma jkunx aw nurses ax kieku xej sew…hu andu il punt tijau wkl sa certu punt,,,ima nahseb jn ta kieku jn certu diskors nevitah
Isa Bartoli: li nhehhi il hmieg tal pazjenti namlu bil qalb kollha imma ma jigi hadt jajjarni
Isa Bartoli: x ghandu x jaqsam
Isa Bartoli: jien danma kellimtux
Rebecca Paris: isa jn mijak naqbel e ax alija parla zejjed…ima nahseb ma nies ek kelma inqas ahjar min zejda ax mux sa tiehu palju mijau hi..isa int taf jn parir tajtek
Joseph Falzon: miskina
Isa Bartoli: ija miskina
Isa Bartoli: issa tara min hu miskin
Rebecca Paris: la timrad int jos xi darba thanks to nies bhala jghajnuk ta…tkunx kiesah.. kull xol fih i rispett tijau
Isa Bartoli: mhux problema thanks rebecca imma hallieh hi belive me
Isa Bartoli: im proud li inehhi il hmieg veru mhux problema
Reading this kind of crap confirms my opinion of Facebook and its users.
[Daphne – That’s a silly generalisation. Facebook is terrific and only some of its users are idiots and exhibitionists.]
These people must be missing the Strowger. Hi lanqas haqq kemm nefaq il-gvern.
The debt servicing costs will shoot upwards from 400 million to over 700 million Euro next year, and the only thing the Opposition has to say is to moan about the cement “tax”.
What a pathetic little country.
A MEPA director resigned over abuse of car allowance.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111115/local/mepa-director-made-to-resign.394031
The rise in cement costs has contributed to an increase in the financial estimates for the additional balcony at Mile End HQ.
What? Joseph has to rework the costings for the balcony again?
First the change in the MEPA rates… and now the cement tax?
Why doesn’t he leave it to his technical sidekick to work it out. Oh wait, it’s the otherway round.
So who does Labour have to take care of the country’s finances if elected to government?
The mind boggles.
Labour is silent about the government’s incentives for restoration and rehabilitation, even though it is supposed to be enthusiastic about the regeneration of urban cores. Instead, it express shock at the higher tax on cement, which it says will affect new building.
Linking these and all other contractors, however, to cement is doing these a great disservice, they are, after all, just that, people capable of taking on a job against a contract.
As for those specialised in concrete, the tax is but a signal to the end of this cannibalistic free for all.
I think there will come a time when removal of overdevelopment and restitution of vacant space will actually prove profitable. If only architecture were upheld, this detente could end.