Well said both David S and anthony

Godfrey Grima trivialises what has been achieved and encourages people to take Malta’s economic success for granted. How sorry we will all be when the clueless Joseph Muscat is voted in as PM.

Of course, the mayor is a buddy.

David, you are spot on.

Two out of every three new jobs in the UK under the last Labour government (thirteen years) were directly or indirectly bankrolled by the state. It was simply an expensive exercise at masking government incompetence and mass unemployment.

The Uk economy was built on a mountain of debt.

The same can be said of the fictitious economic policies of the socialist Zapatero government in Spain.

In Greece both ND and PASOK were up to their shoulders in the disastrous economic pie.

The EU funds have nothing to do with this.

And Grima knows it very, very well.

He is certainly no slouch.

Sadly, he is very heavily tainted by politics and by opportunism.

You don’t need a print copy.

http://henleyalumni.org.mt/news-events_section/news/the-executive-new-issue/

Normally Godfrey appears to make some balanced arguments, but this time it was utter nonsense.

1) Joseph Muscat will be the next Fenech Adami because of his leadership skills.

2) Spain and Greece messed up when the EU funds ended. Rubbish – speaking from his ass. Spain messed up because the socialist party, led by Zapatero, screwed up the economy so badly 2004 – 2011. To generate employment there was an uncontrolled building boom which went belly up and so Spain now has 24.6 % unemployment. That would almost be equal to 40,000 people out if work in Malta.

Greece suffered from chronic corruption and employed thousands in the public sector, mostly by the Socialist party of Pasok. They also cooked the books to enable themselves to join the eurozone.

Sur Godfrey Grima, mur saqqi l-hass tal-Marsa – by saying that Spain and Greece’s woes are due to EU funds drying up, you demonstrate that you are clueless or deliberately twisting the facts for your Super One audience.

It’s solely due to the incompetent and corrupt (socialist) governments they had.

It may be worth mentioning that even the Labour Party in the UK screwed up the economy there with the debt as a percentage of GDP ballooning from 35% to 70% in a mere 1000 days under Gordon Brown’s leadership.

By comparison, Malta’s debt in the past four years increased by a mere 5% of GDP in the face of a harsh economic climate.

U kif, par idejn sodi, Sur Godfrey Grima.

Bloomberg, eh? Did Purdie have a hand in this?

L-aqwa li hemm il-hostess Nuxellina.

Seriously now: The Executive always send written questions for interviews with senior politicians. This is a case of idiotic shadow writer, and even more idiotic boss.

“Malta Lures Hedge Funds With 300 Days of Sunshine ” ……. and with 7,000 years of history ……. and with a pair of safe hands at the helm.

[Daphne – Right, is there anyone out there who’s got the actual print copy of The Executive and can oblige? Please send it to dcg@proximuspr.com. Thank you.]