here we go again.

Alla maghna.

WOW! A congress of coffee-morning regulars waving red-socialist flags is going draw up a roadmap for economic growth.

Hold on tight for the next boom.

What are they going to call it this time? “Pjan ghal-bidu gdid, mibni fuq dawk li farrku Malta fis-sebghinijiet u fil-bidu tat-tmeninijiet”?

In the first place, it is an admission that a Labour government would have no clue how to create jobs.

In the second place, Labour still has no idea that it is in the private sector that productive jobs are created, and the only partnership that the private sector needs is an efficient, honest and competent government that limits its role to regulation, not a government that involves itself in the drawing up of partnership agreements, dabbling in business decisions, interfering with competition and possibly giving rise to State Aid issues.
The involvement of the government in business creates even more bureaucracy, because of public procurement issues, political appointments, political decision making and so forth.

Therefore, we should expect a decent explanation of what Labour means by a “partnership” – the last time they used that word, in the context of the EU, they proposed something very messy. “Partnership” is probably the last word in the dictionary they should be using.

I am very concerned that this “partnership” idea is more likely to be another National Bank saga. You either do what we order, or we take a stake in your business or acquire your property and compel you to do what we say.

Partnership – L-ahjar ghazla.

[Daphne – It’s a link to a blog. Click on it and you’ll see.]

So we are going to have a congress, made up of people who understand nothing about business and the economy, to “draw up a road map” foreconomic growth – a sort of plan drawn up by the masses for the masses.

It will presumably feature “plotts tal-gvern”, “bulk buying”, “issikkar tac-cinturin”, “rohs fil-prezz tal-kavalli tal-bott” and “lanzid and hdura”.

‘launch an unprecedented partnership with the private sector…….’

And if one forms part of cabinet or happens to sit in parliament the investment is assured.