Which twin engined helicopter?

Aha, a socialist paradise. Just fucking lovely.

However,although I hate to admit it, Ciccio is right about almost every word he said. I don’t hate to admit it because I am a labour supporter but because it saddens me to have no choice when election day comes.

There are a few more prediction which we can make on the basis of the little that we do know of Joseph Muscat’s programme.

Malta will withdraw from the EU Defence Committee. Which means that all staff assigned to it will be moved elsewhere.

For AFM members or anyone working in defence, it will be even worse. We will withdraw from EU militarty missions. No more Atalanta, EUPM or training missions in Uganda for AFM members.

We will also, of course, withdraw from Partnership for Peace, yet again. We can kiss goodbye to any access to NATO planning that we currently have, and of course we can forget a twin-engined helicopter for our Armed Forces.

Naturally, the AFM will no longer require a NATO-standard rifle if we withdraw from any international missions, so anyone hoping to replace their venerable Type 56s with a Beretta 70/90 will be disappointed.

All that collective effart will have been in vain.

AFM beware.

Now for our academics.

MCAST will be given university status, and it will run itself using its current staff. Who will obviously have to be paid university salaries. But they got there with different job requirements.

The result will be a blasphemous injustice where academics with vastly different qualifications are paid the same salary.

This will of course divert even more funds from the education budget. So we can kiss goodbye to “research” and “academic development” at the University of Malta. Juanito Camilleri had better speak out against these silly fantasies of Muscat’s. And I mean in public, like a man.

Academics, beware.

Now for utility bills.

Water Services Corporation is currently losing about 4 million Euros a year because water prices have been kept artificially low by a government obsessed with “social conscience”.

Joseph Muscat will LOWER those utilities even further. So WSC can expect to go bankrupt, pure and simple.

Ditto for Enemalta.

And when companies go bankrupt, they lay off their employees.

WSC and Enemalte employees, beware.

Joseph Muscat has promised a gas-fuelled power station. Which costs money, so the interconnector project will have to be put on hold or cancelled altogether.

Any private companies working on the project will have their contracts revoked. Yes, compensation will be paid, but only for those contracts which have already been signed.

M. Demajo Group of Companies, beware.

Thank you, Baxxter.

I can’t give a long answer now. I should have gone to bed at ten. But the short answer is this:

Many decisions should have been taken in 2004 to set the country on the right track. Some were. Many more should have been taken in 2008. Very few were, because Lawrence Gonzi’s government is ineffectual and paralysed by its blind adherence to the tenets of socialism, and held hostage by too many links to big business.

However, Simon Busuttil can lead this country out of this paralysis and into modernity. But he cannot do it from the opposition benches.

If Joseph Muscat wins, it will be shady links to big business all over again, compounded by a breathtaking incompetence at the technical level, and free rein to overturn nine years of progress since 2004. Which may very well include withdrawal from the EU.

Mark my words. He is the sort to build his policies on the back of public opinion. If he wins the election, he knows he has the backing of an anti-EU majority.

In short, and though it may shock many, we need a PN victory so that Gonzi can bow out and Simon Busuttil can take his place.

My friend, plausible prediction, Daphne blogged this over three years ago. However, what do ‘the people’ want, in your opinion?

C’mon, partner, lay it out. I have two Maltese/Canadian grandchildren here. They appear to be perfectly content with their present situation.

So the reds win. will my grandkids still continue to be happy and content as they grow?

Now, I know you’re very sharp.Baxxter, as we have met numerous times, and i always leave overwhelmed. Predict, for me, where my two little people will face after 5 years of Labour disasters.

[Daphne – Calm down. And when you do so, please also register the fact that the Nationalist Party has been in power for the last 14 years, not the last 25.]

Bazuzlu? Din il-kelma xi tfisser?

The only message you registered is that you are a a sub-literate, uneducated, superb example of the misguided bunch of Neanderthals that still inhabit our rock.