A job as a chambermaid at White Rocks is not better than all the freedoms and benefits of the EU, Joseph
Joseph says in this video that zghazagh ask themselves “Fejn huma l-impiegi fil-White Rocks? & c & c”
Yes, Joseph, and there are plenty of zghazagh (and their parents), I can assure you, who wake up every day and say “Thank God that balding ginger bastard didn’t get his way and have Malta out of the European Union and the eurozone, because where would I/they be then?”
They might not actually say “balding ginger bastard”, but I certainly do. And I know that others, of a similar disposition, do as well.
Fejn huma l-impiegi fil-White Rocks! Trust the frigging Labour Party to be as pedestrian, visionless and mean in its ambitions for young people as I always remember it.
In my time it was Il-Pijunieri and horrible little jobs for the minimum wage with no future and no prospects, obtained after extensive favour-begging and asking around, and now it’s “jobs at White Rocks”.
Doing what? Washing floors and scrubbing out lavatories? Not that there’s no dignity and value in that work, but it’s hardly the kind of aspiration decent parents have for their children, or sensible children have for themselves.
Is this what Joseph means when he says he wants all 16-year-olds in work or training? Fantastic. He’s going to build a new mittilkless of chambermaids and porters.
The only place in Europe where I have seen porters and chambermaids who are not immigrants from the more disadvantaged part of the world is Sicily. And these are Joseph’s ambitions for young Maltese people.
The Nationalist Party talks about careers in financial services, information technology and forging one’s career path through the big cities of Europe, possibly to return to Malta with far more to contribute.
The Labour Party talks about making beds for holiday-makers and hoovering their stray hairs up off the carpet.
What’s the better aspiration for a tifel jew tifla tal-haddiem? A high-flying job with one of the best communications agencies in London, after a postgraduate course with an Erasmus scholarship, like a tifla ta’ bidwi I actually know personally, or a job as a chambermaid at White Rocks, like she would have had 10 years ago?
Labour = rubbish.
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Rubbish has value, it is recyclable (also thanks to PN in Malta). PL is not!
Going by the comments on timesofmalta.com, lots of people still think that the service industry (financial services, on line gamimg, IT, tourism and so on) employment is a joke as it does not produce anything like a pair of jeans.
I think that the Air Malta and the Dry docks early retirement schemes produced a generation of people with nothing to do, except for commenting on timesofmalta.com.
They are all retirees.
The other commenters are Labour voters who work in unproductive and safe jobs.
The Nationalist voters tend to work in the productive sectors of the economy and consequently, are too busy to place a comment on every single newspaper report put on line.
Can somebody tell Dr Gonzi that with its guarantee, what the PL has in mind is what it has offered us in the past:
1) Skema student-haddiem
2) Il-Pijunieri
3) Izra u Rabbi
4) Bahhar u Sewwi
5) Dirghajn il-Maltin
Please PN / Please Castille, get Dr Gonzi to explain to all our youth what this guarantee means.
Insejt id-Dejma.
Insejt il-Fabbriki tal-Kappar.
A couple of years ago, I was on a flight from Palermo packed with Sicilians coming down to Malta for Pausini’s concert. It seems a lot of them had never been to Malta.
Their cockiness on the plane was soon over once we touched down and proceeded through duty free. Punta Raisi has no such thing and is downright shabby.
What got to them, however, was the number of adverts for commercial banks, investment funds, yachting facilities and property, rigorously in English. A couple walking in front of me were in shock, the husband commenting sardonically as to how Sicily is falling behind.
Malta faces becoming a net contributor as early as next year in the EU. Do they know this?
Malta airport is impressive and a superb showcase for Malta.
But what about once you leave the airport? Embarassment starts to sink in when one drives in our roads all potholed and deformed surfaces.
I travelled from southern Africa and was embarrassed for Malta to see such poor quality roads in a country that prides itself as being European. Only Zimbabwe has roads that are ranked as worse than those in Malta.
We have a major problem with the aggregate used. It simply isn’t up to it.
This could, ironically, be the tipping point to start considering alternative integrated transportation to limit usage.
Randon, that ranking you speak of is based entirely on opinion.
Randon, have you been to Zimbabwe? The new road at Luqa is impressive and very well made.
It is the rubbish you discuss everyday in every article. Hmmm, either you have no prospects in life, (apart from discussing the rubbish that is), or that same rubbish is of quite a substantial value. I, personally, would never opt to discuss rubbish, except for environmental purposes, let alone dedicate a full-time job analysing that rubbish.
He has the same vision of previous crap Labour leaders who only mixed with their own hopeless and unambitious supporters.
Just look at the socialist guarantee to young people.
The Partit Laburista is not even telling its supporters here in Malta that it is an initiative of the European Socialists in the context of the situation on the continent where there is high youth unemployment.
Yet, it is nothing more than spending the money of others. The Socialists are suggesting to use Euro 10 billion out of the European Social Fund of the EU every year to get 2 million young persons to work by 2014.
Joseph, would you be able to give your Guarantee to the young people of Malta if we were not part of the EU?
Would you be able to give your Guarantee with the Partnerxipp which you promoted?