I suppose in his mind it is the opposite of “meritocracy”. The English word is nowhere to be found in 2152 pages of The New Oxford Dictionary of English and his Maltese translation is not found in Erin Seracino Inglott’s “Il-Miklem Maltl”. What do you think?

Le, issa:

IT corp (Window clijners)
Smart City Corp (mejntenince u woccmen)
Piano City Corp etc,etc..

The Nationalists need to fish out video clips of Muscat’s (and his cronies) anti-EU rhetoric before we joined the EU as a reminder of how the PL were against opportunities, choice, etc.

Shades of Korp Tal-Pijunieri, Dirghajn il-Maltin , Bahhar u Sewwi, Id-Dejma, Tnejjek u Nejjek , Izra u Rabbi, etc…….

[Daphne – Oh, people will only say that it’s a lady’s right to change her mind.]

When a 16 year old finishes school and wants a job, yes of course it will be provided. There will be the menial work which, let’s face it, not many 16 year olds want to do; even if I believe that the simple discipline of performing work for the actual utilitarian value of work is of value in life.

Now, we know that people respond to incentives and the actual, real incentive in his offering is that you wouldn’t want to be a cleaner (I am also a cleaner myself) and this will motivate you to study harder to eventually get a better education and contribute to the well being of your country.

Perfect example of such a person:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120429/local/-Someone-needs-to-take-notice-of-people-like-us-.417456

My thoughts exactly.

Will Labour start to eulogise ignorance again?

Why should people who leave school at 16 be mollycoddled? And how will they be given something to do, anyway?

Will he create the “Izra u rabbi again”?

I fumed when I heard he had said this because this is scary. Downright scary. Apart from all the obvious implications (creating jobs for people when they do not deserve them) does it mean that people will be given jobs?

Shouldn’t jobs be “created” because there is an actual economic need for them? I mean, he should know this.

And who will be paying for these jobs anyway? Will employers be picked upon? Will they be threatened into submission? Will they be forced to accept semi-illiterate employees?

Because, let’s face it. Nowadays, even the most school-phobic kid can go to post-secondary institutions such as MCAST where their natural inclinations can be even academically qualified and certainly not thanks to Labour.

So, why should we encourage our youngsters to drop out of school at 16?

Well, indeed, he didn’t say as much but when I was a kid, leaving school at 16 was not even remotely considered, so much so that for some time, I used to think that university naturally succeeded sixth form which naturally succeeded school in the same as, say, Form 4, succeeded Form 3, because that is the way University was considered at home.

Indeed, I was lucky to be 10 in 1987 so I could, eventually, go to univeristy. If Muscat goes on about how he will be finding jobs for people leaving school at 16, he might just as well tell them to stop studying.

You’re absolutely right when you speak about the “cleaning-women” and all the men and women who are struggling to make ends meet but who want to ensure that their children get the best possible education. It’s unfair, downright insulting, for the Leader of the Opposition to speak in that manner.

Anyway, I can go on and on. Fact remains that JM will say anything to grab a couple more votes.

Thankfully those whose heads are not simple implements to which their ears are attached will realise that, again, Muscat is desperately trying to grab all the votes he can and read through the lines that JM might, once again, embark on corps-style recruitment.

We’ll see.