Ah! Now we know what ‘konsulent tal-housing’ means.
Mhux kulhadd irid jiekol?
Two years ago, Malta Right Now had run this story:
Stefan Buontempo jabbuża mill-email ta’ membru parlamentari għall-kumpanija privata tiegħu
Josianne CAMILLERI
14 ta’ Novembru, 2009
Id-deputat Laburista Stefan Buontempo qed juża l-indirizz elettroniku, li ġie assenjat lilu bħala membru parlamentari, biex iħajjar lin-nies jikru u jixtru proprjeta’ mingħand il-kumpanija privata tiegħu.
B’abbuż ċar tal-indirizz tal-gvern, Stefan Buontempo, il-kelliem ewlieni Laburista dwar il-Kunsilli Lokali, jibgħat email lil numru ta’ individwi u kumpaniji fejn jinfurmahom bid-dettalji tal-proprjeta’ li għandu għall-kiri jew għall-bejgħ.
Filwaqt li jiffirma bħala d-Direttur, Buontempo jgħid li l-kumpanija tiegħu d’Aniens Development għandha f’idejha numru ta’ spazji kummerċjali fiż-żona tal-Imsida. Dan il-bini jista’ jinkera jew jinbiegħ.
Mill-istess indirizz tal-gvern li Stefan Buontempo għandu għad-dispożizzjoni tiegħu bħala deputat fil-kamra tar-rappreżentanti, huwa jistieden lil min jirċievi l-email u jixtieq jara din il-proprjeta’ tal-kumpanija privata tiegħu biex jagħmel kuntatt miegħu u hu jagħmlilhom appuntament.
Fil-firma tiegħu f’din l-email, id-deputat Laburista ma jiddejjaq xejn iniżżel l-indirizz tal-gvern bħala l-kuntatt ewlieni tiegħu. Dan minkejja li din l-email hi dwar xogħol privat tiegħu u m’għandha x’taqsam xejn mal-kariga tiegħu bħala kelliem għall-Partit Laburista.
Din mhix l-ewwel darba li membri parlamentari tal-Partit Laburista wrew li ma jistħux jabbużaw mill-faċilitajiet tal-Parlament.
Ftit tal-jiem ilu, intbagħtet posta f’envelope tal-Kamra tar-Rappreżentanti li kienet tinforma lir-residenti tax-Xewkija dwar laqgħa tal-lokalita’.
Iżda f’dak il-każ kienet mara min-Nadur, Emanuela Vella, li rċeviet id-dettalji tal-laqgħa tal-kumitat sezzjonali tax-Xewkija minkejja li hi min-Nadur. Hija kienet ukoll irċeviet it-tessera tas-sħubija fil-Partit Laburista minkejja li qatt m’applikat biex tissieħeb.
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Maybe it is for the best he uses his Yahoo account, he obviously can’t be trusted.
Ghax issa dawn tal-Labour saru juzaw l-IT, ta. Basta il “kbir ta z***” Mintoff kien qal li l-computers tatijhom il-kakka u jatuk il-kakka.
U mhux hekk biss. Kienu jitghajru b’min jilbes il-glekk u jgorr ‘il-briefcase’. Xeba’ hdura ghal professjonisti u llum kollha jaghmlu l-weghdi biex jilhqu avukati, tobba u accountants.
Bis-saħħa ta’ Gvern Nazzjonalista, għax kieku fi żmienhom aqta’ kemm kont se tilħaq avukat jew tabib jew perit bin-numerus clausus. Kieku llum għadhom jieklu l-ħobż biż-żejt jew is-soppa tal-corned beef, jew il-luncheon meat taċ-Ċiniżi, jaħdmu f’xi Korp jew Taks Force… anki Anġlu aqta’ kemm kien se jilħaq avukat? Għandu għalfejn ikun daqshekk ingrat u aħdar lejn min tah opportunita’ biex forsi jkun xi ħadd, allavolja naħseb li kollu ta’ xejn (u n-Nazzjonalisti ma jitgħallmuha qatt din għandu jkun) – ħmar taqtagħlu denbu, ħmar jibqa’!
I think Mintoff said: Ittih il-qrusa u tohrog il-kakka.
The fact remains that the awful bastard deprived us of them for so long, trying to keep the bl**dy lot of us under his control.
Importing any computer involved reams of paperwork, licences, etc – even purchasing a rather primitive Sinclair Spectrum or ZX81. Oh, and they were all monochrome, since colour TVs were banned, thus colour monitors too.
Rid izommna wara l-muntanji, bhac-cwiec li kienu jivvultawlu.
Grezz,
naqbel mieghek 100%. Kont trid taghmel weghda biex ikollok bicca computer dak iz-zmiem.
Grezz, colour TVs were not banned. They were in Malta, being sold by friends of friends or barunijiet (but of course internal friends of the Malta Labour Party) to who could pay in Liri Maltin. The social heart of the Labour Party.
You are a one Daphne, I must say…
The proposed reforms should include some very clear guidelines to conflicts of interest. I suspect this may result beyond the capacity of a number of members of the house to regulate themselves. It requires experience and political resolve.
It didn’t reflect well on the opposition when it abandoned the committee, set up at the beginning of this legislature, to tackle the subject.
The silence seems consensual, unless someone understands what civil society really expects and adopts it. Malta has reached a stage where voters are looking for stark evolution, not gratuitious change.
I don’t expect Joseph to be able to, he’s in no position to subject himself to accusations of ‘arrogance’ nor risk alienating the ‘moderates’. They have everything to lose and would erupt into ideological conflict.
It’s THE subject Labour wants to avoid, late as ever.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Government-opposition-mum-on-Armier-commitments-20120130
Why should these squatters expect by right to be awarded the public land they appropriated illegally anyway?
Viva (NEW) Labour;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIC1YnEyAY&feature=related
After inviting Mintoff Yana at New Labour’s jamboree the other day to help entice the old Socialist guard back into the Skip, Dr Muscat is now concentrating on herding various other assorted lost sheep back into the fold with this catchy tune;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpw9MKXLguw&feature=related
“Hija kienet ukoll irceviet it-tessera tas-shubija fil-Partit Laburista minkejja li qatt m’applikat biex tissieheb”.
Mela ghalhekk tal-Lejber jiftahru li aktar u aktar nies qed issiebhu mal-Partit Mintoffjan!
Mela halhekk il-MLP qieghed f’pozizzjoni finanzjarjament prekarja ghax qed jibghatu tesseri bil-mijiet minghajr ma jigbru il-mizata!
Mela ghalhekk il-Mintoff Labour Party kien tant anzjuz li jnehhi l-‘M’ minn quddiem il-LP. Sewwa, Joseph jiddikjara li hu Mintoffjan waqt li nehha il-kelma ‘Mintoff’ mill-isem tal-Partit! Mur ifimhom.
And they told us that Labour’s average age is coming down. Is Mizzz Mintoff Yana younger than Karmenu Vella, AST and Joe Grima?
The actions described above basically mean that Buon Tempo was using the Parliament facilities as an estate agency. Altru milli “konsulent tal-housing.”
And the Good Times are yet to come, according to Labour.
A rather bad case of Mintoffian revisionism, lionising the man before he’s even snuffed it. Anyone care to bet where they’ll put Mintoff’s bronze statue?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PYqY0-EkW8c
[Daphne – Have you watched it yet? I haven’t, so I can’t say.]
No, you are right, I have not watched it yet.
I am questioning the way the church/state debate is being presented, as if to strike a chord with current issues. It definitely was not ‘the’ defining part of the Mintoff administration – particularly in the late seventies.
And that “waslet is-siegha” part. I thought there was way too much of Mintoff running circles around Lord Carrington in it.
But it is a trailer, designed to garner interest.
[Daphne – It was produced by Pierre Ellul, who is married to Anika Psaila Savona. He had spoken to me briefly about it. I believe he did a lot of research work and one of his main difficulties was finding people to talk to camera about what they endured in the Mintoff years. He was surprised and shocked because even after all these years, people were reluctant to do so. Pierre, if you are reading this (I’ve lost your number), all you have to do is read the 900 ghastly comments and threats beneath my MY GOD ROT MINTOFF’S SOUL post to understand why people don’t want to speak on the record and on film.]
Then again, there are those who will glorify Mintoff till long after he’s rotted away, judging by the comments here – http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=19645 .
It is frightening that people are still afraid to speak freely about their suffering under Mintoff and from the comments I read beneath your ‘MAY GOD ROT MINTOFF’S SOUL’, I can understand their reluctance to speak in public about this hated figure Mintoff.
Let us not forget that many are still afraid because many (though, I fear, not enough) know that Labour is still the same. Why are people afraid to talk? Because they are afraid of Labour’s eventual return to power.
I wouldn’t use a nom-de-plume otherwise and I know many others wouldn’t.
Which brings me to another cold realisation: have these past 20-odd years (bar a couple) been a reprieve from what life really is in Malta? Has the peace of mind, which has reogned for all these years, really been an “Awakening” (as employed in the famous movie?) hence a period, fleeting and chimerical, which is so fragile that come next election, will evaporate?
When I step back and look at the situation objectively, I see that this is all a dream, this well-being, this getting-on-with-our-lives-serenely is dependent on whether we are asleep or otherwise, figuratively speaking. One day we will wake up and our re-awakening will not be pleasant.
Sometimes I feel it is like the PN is trying to hold back the tide and the natural order of things in Malt is life under Labour lived in fear and misery.
Fact is many are still afraid. Perhaps, like me, they know that we are merely living a truce and, given a chance, Labour would start turning the clock back.
Think about 1996. Now, 16 years later, I am deeply surprised (only now it hit me) that a mere 9 years after 1987, Labour was re-elected. And, soon enough, the demons came back to haunt us.
No, it is clearer now more than ever that currently, the PL is worse than 10 years ago and they will show their true colours once they are elected.
Yes people are still afraid, and I daresay, justly so.
If Pierre Ellul did not LIVE at least some parts of the Mintoff years and relied only on what was written, than I’m sorry to say that we won’t have the ‘whole’ picture.
First hand experiences are very important in a documentary.And sometimes the juicy parts are never written.
It’s worth noting that a documentary by the name “Two trumpets for Saint Andrew” was shot in Luqa around 1968(?) by an Australian crew. This was about village life and the Mikiel Gonzi/ Dom Mintoff ‘fight’.
It seems that the film is for free on line, but I don’t know how to download it.
Daphne, and if you allow me: this is something which I will never ever forgive Mintoff for: the instilling in all of us, otherwise fully-socialised adults, this deep-rooted and lingering fear. Many take this peaceful state for granted. But it is fear which we need to take for granted.
And you know what? Even PL diehards know this and implicitlly acknowledge it.
On FB I have taken a sharp and open stand against Franco Debono. A Labour acquaintance called me and shamelessly told me: mhux ahjar ma tikxifx x’int? Jekk jitla’ l-Labour taf iddur kontrik.
He was not threatening me. His was a genuine concern. I didn’t give two hoots. But the implications of this incident hit me as very significant and telling.
So my last reflection: Do labour supporters (the sharper ones) realise that the way of life we have now is exclusively dependent on whether we have a PN governnent or otherwise?
[Daphne – I get that ALL the time.]
Biex tkun taf kemm huma kattivi u njuranti l-Laburisti, trid tahdem go xi dipartiment maghhom. Jiena kont ninnota li kattivi anke ma dawk il-laburisti li ma jaghmlux parti minn klikka. Ghax dawk tal-klikek ma jista ghalihom hadd.
My sister is a simple school cleaner ‘purtinara’. You can imagine the sort of people that do these jobs.he gets lots aggro from nasty ‘hodor’ LP supporters. They make her life a misery.
Lomax,
The mentality you refer to is as strong as ever within Labour. They witnessed Sant’s debacle in 1997 and chose to keep quiet in the run up to the EU referendum. Rest assured that even Labour MP’s voted in favour of EU membership.
Have you noticed how the Labour media tries to instigate discord in the PN, misquoting MP’s and written statements?
I am by no means a labourite or mintoffjan, but it highly sickenning that people still use a quote that mintoff used decades before the modern computer. You would not blame mintoff for saying that expression, similar expressions must have been used when people where changing from horses to cars. Mintoff might have kept the country back from many things, but definitly not room sized computers !!!!
[Daphne – Room-size computers! This is the 1980s we are talking about, Karl, not the 1960s.]
@Karl Borg
It all boils down to the politician’s vision and ability to decipher what is in Malta’s best interest.
Mintoff’s vision was to discourage the introduction of computers on the workplace because it would result in JOB LOSSES.
The vision of the various PN governments since 1987 was that computers will increase efficiency and make us more competitive. The introduction and promotion of computers will result in JOB CREATION.
Mintoff and MLP were not able to see beyond the tip of their noses.
The PN were forward looking and consistently had a vision for Malta’s economic and social progress. More crucially the PN in government worked and invested to bring that vision to fruition.