Can you believe a future prime minister would send this around? How inspiring of confidence.
Oh look! It's an exciting change.
This is one of Joseph Muscat’s latest phishing emails. He sends them out with the frequency of a Nigerian scammer (“My uncle is bishop of Bonga and I need to come to UK to study. I have big monies in bank account, but need help for transfer.”).
No mention of the Labour Party, of course. The man runs the Partit Bla Isem – you know, like the day the singer Prince woke up and decided to become the Artist Known as (symbol).
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From Joseph Muscat, emailed to your junk mail folder:
While Lawrence Gonzi is busy squabbling with his PN colleagues our movement is focussing on the country’s future. We are drawing up a roadmap for economic growth, to give a better life to all Maltese people.
In the past few months, Labour has put forward exciting new policies. These include:
-Our guarantee that every young person will have a job, education or training.
-Our promise to commission social impact assessments before taking major economic decisions.
-A better deal for people with disabilities, and their families, giving them peace of mind for the future.
As GonziPN implodes, we are opening our movement to more people. We’ve attracted new candidates to stand alongside experienced figures. And hundreds of volunteers are helping the Labour Party too because they know that for life to improve in Malta there has to be a change of government.
Why don’t you become part of the exciting change Malta needs and join our movement now.
Living under the GonziPN government has been tough for families but brighter days lie ahead and you are welcome to join the movement that will get the country back on its feet.
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IS THE PBI (PARTIT BLA ISEM) NUTS? Don’t all reply at once. Tough for families? Mur arhom l-Grecja jew Spanja. Brighter days lie ahead? What, under the Partit Bla Isem?
Joseph, getting the country back on its feet? It doesn’t need to be got back on its feet, because the main problems right now are called Jeffrey and Franco, and even if it did, a Super One hack and il-Guy are the last people you’d want to do it.
Gej bl-exciting change. “Hey folks! I’m an exciting change!” What is this man? Il-Bambin jilliberana.
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“Living under the GonziPN government has been tough for families”.
He is perfectly right.
Not everyone can afford to buy a smartphone for his/her children at kindergarten.
They can only provide them with cheap phones with no access to the web.
X’gharukaza.
Hey, no complaints. Not when the youngsters will have a choice under a Labour Movement.
Either a job or education. A job, or training.
How does one get a job without training? And what kind of job?
Ever thought of education first, training second and job third?
Road Map – Mappa ghat-triq biex twasslek mill-Milied sa San Stiefnu.
Hello Daphne, I follow your blog regularly and find a haven of (like) minded people here.
This is the first time I’m writing.
Regarding this post it’s rather insulting the way PLnoName tries to use “big” words such as “policies” just to try and impress people. These are not policies.
If one would want to define this list, you might call them promises/wish list, based on nothing more than flat, misguided PR catch phrases.
They lack depth and one immediately notes that PLnoName spent less than half a minute to come up with them between frantic calls and cups of Earl Grey.
And what’s with the “better deal”? The car salesman description is really fitting here. They even call these “policies” exciting. They’re about as exciting as athlete’s foot.
Censa, you are right to criticise the 3 items on Joseph’s wishlist.
Actually, was it not a list of 51 items at the time of the last budget – where did the other 48 items go?
Out of the three wishes, the one about the Youth Guarantee is actually an idea of the European Socialist group, and they are seeking to implement it in all of the EU and to finance it via the EU Social Fund.
Therefore, it is definitely not a policy of Joseph Muscat. And moreover, even a PN government may be forced by the EU to implement this policy if the European Socialists manage to enforce this scheme through the EU institutions.
But more specifically, Joseph Muscat has been leader of his party for more than 3 years now. And all he could come up with in all that time was 2 ideas. That’s less than 1 idea per year.
But the opportunities are already there for every young person to have a job, education or training. So what’s new?
The only difference I see is that the ‘korpi’ may be with us soon for those who do not want to work or do not find a job immediately.
“Our guarantee that every young person will have a job, education and training”
Mintoff’s party made the same promise in 1971. They kept it. Youngsters were offered to engage in paramilitary corps such as the famous Pijonieri, Dirghajn il-Maltin, Bahhar u Sewwi, Dejma and so paid minimum wage (cheap labour) and prohibited from taking any form of industrial action.
This was the best that successive Labour administrations could do since 1971 even under the leadership of the one who the Labourites used to call ‘SALVATUR’ and who was afterwards demonised and called by the same people ‘TRADITUR’.
Is there anyone in his right senses in Malta that believes that Joey can do better than that. Of course not.
“Youngsters were offered to engage in paramilitary corps such as the famous Pijonieri, Dirghajn il-Maltin, Bahhar u Sewwi, Dejma and so paid minimum wage (cheap labour) and prohibited from taking any form of industrial action.”
We all seem to remember these paramilitary corps, but we tend to forget KMB’s implementation of the (in)famous WAGE FREEZE as part of Labour’s strategy to keep unemployment under check.
Can Joseph guarantee that Labour’s wage freeze under KMB will not be resorted to once again?
This must be the first time he hasn’t mentioned il-kontijiet tad-dawl u l-ilma.
This is actually an English version transcript of the video about the roadmap bla bla.
It’s sick the way PFKAL (Party Formerly Known As Labour) and many of its supporters keep talking about hardship and how the Maltese are suffering.
I don’t see homeless people sleeping rough on the streets like you see in a lot of European countries and the United States.
I don’t see hundreds of thousands losing their jobs like in Spain and Greece.
I don’t see students scraping by after spending all their life savings to get an education like in most of the world.
What I do see is everyone with mobile phones (a large number being expensive smart phones), almost everyone with internet (even on their smart phones) and laptops, lots of people boasting about their 700 euro dreambox’s and 50 inch tv’s and lots and lots of fat and obese people.
Malta has one of the world’s highest obesity rates. Go to the beach and all you see is obese children with their equally obese parents and obese extended family.
And all this when the country is suffering and people have a hard life to bring bread to the table.
That might be true after they spend all their money on laptops, internet, iphones, 50 inch TVs, BMWs tal-Ingilterra, chest freezers full of meat, and airconditioners.
I just love the way you’re blogging right now. Keep it up!
This particular pic brings this to mind:
http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/d/d7/Dark_Lightning.jpg
Right, a guarantee requires compensation if the promise isn’t kept.
During one of his electoral campaigns, Berlusconi pledged to retire from politics if he didn’t keep a number of key promises. One of them was a million jobs.
Let’s see Joseph’s.
I remember clearly Mitoff shouting in Paola Square:
‘Xogħol għal kullħadd fi zmien tlett xhur’
He fixed us really good; but it looks like the digging of a new lower level in hell is nearing its finish.
When he became leader of his party Muscat promised an earthquake. Is he promising the same, with the same results, if he were to become prime minister?