He has been in the leadership four years, and so far he has no concrete plans and ideas. He seems to have even forgotten about his 51 big budget “proposals.” And here he goes giving the young people a guarantee.

Any serious business, organisation, or political party, will first show us the product, let us touch it, feel it, discuss it, analyse it, try it, fall in love with it and then it tells us that it is so confident in its product that it can guarantee it and it gives us the terms of guarantee.

Muscat’s proposals so far have not been serious: the living wage, 51 proposals, 10 energy measures and Sargas. And consequently he cannot be taken seriously with the socialist guarantee.

Compiling anonymous statistics about the numbers of young people in work or at university is one thing. Actually combing through the records to identify perceived defaulters by name, address and telephone number and calling them in for supervision and questions is another. It is outrageous.

Clearly, Joseph Muscat and his dinosaur network do not feel the same way because they have no true liberal soul. If I were a 16-year-old in that position, I would tell the government where to stuff its concern and how to stay out of my life (but I have said that already). ”

Three things come to my mind:
Evarist Bartolo, future Minister of Education, and secret service.

Been there, done that in an other country.

Their backbone is flexible and they don’t recognize that.

I believe very much in these questions: Who I am? Where I go? Why do I exist?

If one manages to answer them deep down in her/his being activity, vitality, humility etc will follow.

In socialism there is no room for these kind of questions. Individual’s identity is not the starting point – and not even the goal.

Where is he going to legitimately obtain his data from?

And even if this were to be done through a process of elimination and not by direct data mining, the process itself will still require authorisation and sanctioning by the Data Protection Commissioner.

Which Data Protection Commissioner in his right mind is going to sanction something like this? It would be reported to the Commission in no time.

Besides, it’s also a monstrous task that would cost the taxpayer a pretty penny and be quite unjustifiable.

Some 45,000 parents sued

A staggering 45,000 contraventions have been issued to parents between 2000 and the end of last month for not sending their children to school.

Answering a question by Silvio Parnis (PL), Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici laid statistics on the Table of the House showing that there was a pendulum effect between 1,396 cases in 2000 and 4,501 last year.

The Education Act states that every parent has to ensure that, unless there was a good and sufficient cause, a minor attends school on school days until compulsory age.

The number of contraventions were 3,804 in 2001 and in subsequent years were the following: 2,852; 3,899; 3,391; 3,476; 4,114; 4,011; 4,476; 3,648; and 4,046. During the first four months of this year, 1,270 contraventions were issued.

The first three cities in the list were Valletta (4,178), Cospicua (3,447) and Birkirkara (2,784).