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July 23, 2012 at 2:41pm
This comment came in response to my bit about Lino Spiteri’s badly judged remark that never in Malta has the situation been so chaotic.
From Min Jaf:
I actually remember watching the annual MLP Budget Show on TV and Lino Spiteri, then Minister of Finance, winding up his budget speech with the words “,,,u din nistghu insejjhula il-Year of Employment”.
In the following 12 months, as a result of that budget, several businesses folded up or were compelled to shed employees, and some 11,000 jobs were lost in the private sector.
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The “year of employment” was when, just before the elections of 1987, the Malta Labour Party government employed 8,000 persons in government departments and entities.
And told them that if the Nationalist Party won the election, they would throw everyone out again. The PN had to issue a statement promising them that they would do no such thing.
Did a few find their way to Air Malta as well?
Yes they did – and quite a few.