Doesn’t this wonderful picture fill you with hope for the immediate future under a Labour government?
Our future awaits us.
This photograph was taken today, when Labour leader Joseph Muscat (centre), Labour’s CEO and sec-gen replacement James Piscopo (second from right), Labour electoral programme chief Karmenu Vella (third from right) and Labour electoral programme writer and former ‘elve’ Aaron Farrugia (first from right) met Tony Zarb (third from left) and a couple of other General Workers Union officials (first and second from left).
Karmenu Vella – people tend to shrink with age, but look at that, it’s ridiculous because he’s suddenly even shorter than Joseph, how amazing – was on familiar turf because he’s in private business with the GWU through Orange Travel, an arrangement he made with S Mifsud & Sons, to feather his nest even further.
Tony Zarb went there to give the Labour Party his union’s suggestions for its electoral programme. Muscat responded by saying that “the PL’s electoral programme will be built on realistic proposals that will form a roadmap for economic growth, rather than on a wishlist of grand proposals which could not be implemented.”
So help us God.
He sounds as though he runs the Greek or Spanish Opposition. The reality is that we’ve been in comparative heaven these last four years, with trouble and problems caused only by the personal grudges and vindictiveness of a few barren souls.
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Then what about this more complete one?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=165464713578587&set=a.110360542422338.6867.107710212687371&type=1&theater
I don’t think I’m getting a wink of sleep tonight.
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“the PL’s electoral programme WILL be built on realistic proposals that WILL form a road-map for economic growth…”
So, he is now using the future tense, hinting that the programme hasn’t even been started yet!
So, it seems it’s not Karmenu Vella, not Charlie Mangion, not Edward Scicluna and not even Aaron Farrugia writing it, but Toni Zarb?
We had better start a novena to all the Saints in heaven, maybe a miracle will protect Malta from a catastrophe of cataclysmic proportions.
I think that there is a slight slip in the first quote. I think ‘realistic’ should read ‘elastic’ since Joseph Maximus is promising everything to everybody; even what is in Maltese proverbially impossible, “triq fil-baħar” by his sea reclamation brainwave to appease developers.
“the PL’s electoral programme will be built on realistic proposals that will form a roadmap for economic growth, rather than on a wishlist of grand proposals which could not be implemented.”
Hmm. I guess his “wishlist” of 51 grand so-called “proposals” is out of the window then. How did I not see that coming?
Let us assume that, at most, elections are to be held in about a year’s time or, at least, weeks after summer recess ends. Then, surely a political party intent on winning must have a plan on how to win voters.
The Malta Labour Party is banking on (a) partisanship (hence, rallying the Golden Oldies because Maltese are suckers for the days gone by (“O zmien helu kif ghaddejtni”)); and, (b) Maltese ‘gemgem’ – people incessantly grumbling and assumed to be a reflection of the mean voting direction. By destabilising the MLP appear to be banking on transforming (b) into a winning majority.
My question is, what is going to happen after they win? It is easy to say that a government will not reduce spends on social aspects. However, that means reducing infrastructural spend so as to reduce the deficit and increasing taxes or creating a progressive tax.
The immediate implication of progressive taxation is tax avoidance by the rich (because they can afford and do have accountants) and heavier burdens on the middle and lower income earners simply because some form of indirect taxation will be introduced to make up for the bleeding (and because this is what the Golden Oldies did).
We have not heard anything about increasing spend to get foreign investment – the trip to Dubai was to ‘appease’ investors – that is, someone there is getting scared. The more modern intelligent approaches to economic growth centre around innovation. I have heard nothing about this from MLP.
Conclusion: I am scared!
You’d think with all the money he’s made during the PN reign, Karmenu Vella could afford a tailor-made suit.
The jacket falls nearly halfway down his thighs, and he looks like he raided some one else’s closet.
Joseph’s only credible guarantee to the Maltese electorate:
“Il-passat garanzija tal-futur.”
“he’s in private business with the GWU through Orange Travel, an arrangement he made with S Mifsud & Sons, to feather his nest even further.”
WHAT? this is news to me.
[Daphne – Well, you should make a point of checking this site several times a day, or risk missing the real news.]
And we thought that the worker-committee “in charge” of the Dockyards under the Malta Labour Party and GWU tandem was an anachronism of days gone by after the ultimate privatization of the dockyards (formerly subsidized by the Malta taxpayers and its debts absorbed by J.Q. Citizen)–and with the ever dwindling numbers of the GWU (because of the changing nature of productive work). Workers of the world, unite (GWU)! Rally around the (newly invisible) retouched and recoloured torch & flag.
If there always was a “Tweedledee”, there must be a “Tweedledum”: under the PL, the future is a blast to the past, or its a trip back to the future, or nostalgia for the “Golden Years”.
How can that be? 20 yrs + in the opposition and not a clue regarding politics. They are good for throwing mud. Nothing else. Squeeze their words and nothing comes out.
After the photo shoot Joseph Muscat probably thanked Tony Zarb for providing some point which Karmenu Vella and Aaron Farrugia could include in their still empty electoral manifest. In a few weeks time, Tony Zarb will commend Joseph Muscat for having the same proposals in the electoral manifest.
Kemm huma helwin, qishom zewg namrati u l-familjari.