Joseph Muscat: just like a condom, he’s safe for business
This image was lifted from future parliamentary secretary Silvio Parnis's Facebook albums
This was in The Times, last Monday. I found it very amusing, for all sorts of unintended reasons.
Joseph Muscat protests too much. Not hindering business should be a given for the government of a democratic state.
A future Labour government will offer “lean and mean” governance that will not hinder business, according to opposition leader Joseph Muscat.
He delivered this sales pitch for a business-friendly Labour government in the most unlikely of settings, in front of party activists at the Rialto Theatre in Cospicua yesterday.
In what was a re-run of his Budget reaction last week, Dr Muscat started his hour-long address by saying that a Labour government will be “safe for businesses”.
He repeated the statement at least twice and insisted that companies that were doing well would have the opportunity to make more profit and those in difficulty would be helped to get back on their feet.
“A government led by me will offer a lean and mean administration that will be at the disposal of businesses and not vice versa,” he said, adding that a Labour government would be a partner to large and small businesses and the self-employed.
“I will be the enemy of bureaucracy that stifles opportunity,” he insisted.
Dr Muscat said a Labour government would offer the private sector “a stable relationship” and criticised the government’s decision to introduce a hefty service charge for factories that was later scaled down in the Budget.
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Condom yes, but made in some underground plant in China and appropriately counterfeited AS – a bad copy of the original however possible that is.
The Rialto, another protected building cornered by Labour.
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Will he clear the civil service of dead wood so that those who actually work can be effective?
Will he allow employers to make workers redundant without the GWU raising disproportionate hell?
That’ll go down well at the Rialto.
We all know very well how Labour protected business and simplified their life in 1996 when they promised to abolish VAT. Need I say more?
Joseph’s Labour is safe for business. In opposition.