Break out the canned laughter
Published:
August 3, 2012 at 1:07pm
Now they want us to aim higher in education? Too effing late. It’s not as though anyone’s been standing around waiting for them to come round to the innovative idea.
The Labour Party’s news wabsajt, Maltastar, reports Evarist Bartolo’s latest statement, under the heading:
PL WANTS YOUNG PEOPLE TO AIM HIGHER IN EDUCATION
Dawn il-vera nies li jghixu dinja ghalihom. Unbelievable.
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It’s worse than that. Today I received a circular from Labour MP Michael Falzon.
With an election looming, one would think that a Labour circular may have some reference to their plans for our country’s future, but no, this circular is replete with pictures of fireworks, and is entitled “Stagun tal-Festi 2012”.
His reason for writing to me? To wish me a happy festa.
Oh, so that’s what Labour’s plans for government are.
Names such as Philip Muscat and Agatha Barbara come to my mind when I hear MLP and Education mentioned in the same sentence.
Mela l-istess nies li ma riedux li tfal tal-haddiem jmorru l-universita jekk mhux bil-parrinu issa skoprew l-edukazzjoni.
Just this very morning, whilst I was walking to my office, I was thinking about the many thousands of people my age, coming from solid modest backgrounds, have become the success stories which the PN has helped, with its policies, to “write” along the years.
Indeed, many of us, like me, have had the luxury of having a very good upbringing, two intelligent parents, books all around us and the type of upbringing which gives one, I believe, enough material to be able to make something out of oneself.
However, all our parents’ moral and financial investment would have led nowhere had it not been backed by the PN’s open-university policies, the creation of employment in sectors which, in the 1980’s and 1970’s were unheard of, the PN’s policy of being pro-EU, and other country-changing policies.
Thousands of people my age (born in 1977) have the “luxury” of being able to remember the 1980’s and who know that if we have made something out of our lives it is not certainly due to the alignment of all the planets or some other chance event.
It was the PN in government who has created a future for us all and enough opportunities to achieve what we aspire to achieve.
This is, in my humble opinion, the fundamental difference between the PN and that other nameless party. The PN creates opportunies. The Party-that-shall-not-be-named creates precious nothing. It is not even capable of creating an identity and a name of which it is not ashamed.
They shouldn’t want that, as people who achieve higher education generally don’t tend to vote for them.
Labour’s history and performance when in government were such a disaster that its current leaders rarely make any reference to any achievements made when in office.
Their politics included the then much vaunted parastatalism. All those parastatal companies (120 of them) that operated in a government-controlled market failed miserably the moment the market was liberalized.
It is thanks to Nationalist governments that Malta was liberated of those inefficient labour projects and replaced by healthy and competitive industry in a wider spectrum of economic sectors.
Evarist Bartolo mhux ahjar ifakkarna li kien hu il-Ministru tal-Edukazzjoni tal-Malta Labour Party li biddel l-istipendji tal-istudenti Universitarji f’dejn fl-1996-98?
I was born in 1977 too.
I am like Lomax and think exactly the same way especially when I get to hear these “unbelievable” PL statements.
The irony of it all though, is that many others born in the late 70s,who remember the 80s well, speak for the urgent need for change due to the incompetence and “infiq bla razan” of PN.
These same people have an extremely good life, which was a dream during MLP years, only thanks to PN.