Oh look, I agree with Lino Spiteri
The liberal and progressive couple (gosh, our friends include pufti and nisa-irgiel) are going to very progressive by encouraging Gozitans to restrict their horizon even further.
At a time when young and not-so-young Maltese are pursuing opportunities of work all over Europe, Joseph Muscat’s ta’ wara l-muntanji talk of jobs in Gozo for people in Gozo is particularly dissonant and non-progressive.
What next – the only job in the village for the only gay in the village?
Here’s Lino Spiteri, writing in The Sunday Times yesterday on the subject of the Most Feminist Movement of Liberals and Progressives’ promise to provide jobs in Gozo for people in Gozo who refuse to budge.
Labour, though some might say it will win by default, by disgruntled voters shunning the Nationalist Party, should work harder at adding substance to its presentation. At present, perhaps wary of its clothes being taken over by the Nationalists, it is dealing out generalities, rather than hard doable stuff. Gradually it needs to show there’s meat in the fridge.
It has to be fresher than promises to enable Gozitans to work in Gozo. That has been the objective of every administration since the start of self-government. Economic fact is that it is not doable. Socially mobile Gozitans realise that openings that exist or can be created in Gozo are limited.
Holders of strong middle-management or upper qualities have to wander abroad with competitive intent to make good. If that involves travelling to Malta, as is the case of many workers abroad, why not?
Achievement beckons, and it will remain very restricted in Gozo, even if some further economic activity is added there.
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…. and he wants Gozo to be the motor of the Maltese economy. Un-fucking-believable.
Maybe he plans to dump a power station on Gozo.
There’s a small mistake in the caption (“be” missing).
Where did she get that dress? The stitching down the skirt and hem are positively ugly.
Was Joseph’s mother not a seamstress?
From what Muscat gave one to understand the jobs in Gozo will be in the catering sector. Turning the Goztans into waiters and chambermaids.
Here we go again. Isn’t this ripped straight off Barack Obama’s ‘jobs-at-home’ policy? Wara kollox, Ghawdex u l-Amerka kwazi l-istess le?
Actually, it’s not the “Movement of Liberals and Progressives” but the ‘Movement of Moderates and Progressives’.
Moderates are people who eat, speak and shit in moderation, while progressives are those who haven’t yet realised what being progressive means – that is, relinquishing one’s fate to the international brigade of globalists who use ‘social democracy’ to set up BIG (supranational) government to reign in whole nations under centralised control.
“Reign” should read ‘rein’.
Not to ‘rain’ on your parade, but must you always repeat this drivel?
Do bear with him a little while longer. Autumn in Brussels is a tad too drab, especially when the wife is at work and he’s left to do the dishes.
Right, Kev: it should be Movement of Moderates and Progressives. And Eurosceptics.
Let’s not forget that other brigade of globalists, the ones who growl at the hand that feeds them but never actually bite.
Why are you still in Brussels, Kev? If you hate the EU so much why don’t you leave everything and go live with the gorillas? No, not at the Centru Nazzjonali Laburista, I mean the real ones, in the Congo.
My reply would go beyond your Talibanic code of comprehension, Vella.
Let him entertain us. I remember he arrested me once on a trumped up charge made by another businessman.He always was a bit strange Kev is in Brussels simply because the sauce there is thicker, the gravy far more luscious, than anything here in Malta.
it’s what the UKIP keeps asking Nigel Farage back home. Indeed why are they still in Brussels?
If only Sharon made him a director of Stepping Stones, he would have had an excuse to come to Malta. But he wasn’t allowed even that. She is the sole director.
Would you trust him with your kids?
Wrote reign, meant rein, realized schoolboy mistake, realized you’d effed up, ‘kev’.
Should do better, could do better…..but won’t. Simplez!
Thanks for your worries, Pepso. I usually re-read my comments after I click ‘submit’ – my bad, Pepso, I know… would you like to be my proof-reader? I can pay in gravy, you know.
‘The morons from outer space’ – correct spelling but genuine apologies to the ‘Not Nine O’clock News’ team for associating their film title with such mediocrity as the MLP/PL and even more aptly the ‘;movement with no name’.
Well that’s 200 words that basically translate to “cut to the chase and tell us HOW the proposals will work”
I endured 10 mins of Joseph Muscat’s speech, which is the most I could take. Chav(ez) rhetoric apart, it was all hot air and zero substance. And how utterly irresponsible to use the words “garanzija ta’ xoghol”.
But then again, when Labour DID give one proposal – that dismal and utterly crazy Sargas venture, it was trashed within inches of its life. Marlene Pullicino was butchered about Sargas on Bondiplus.
Perhaps, they have learned to stay coy and sidestep all issues. The PN is doing a wonderful job as handing them victory.
Joseph’s ‘linji gwida’ are no more than catch phrases for short term consumption.
They will expire the moment the result of the general elections is announced.
At that point, it will dawn on everyone that what had been said for several years – that Joseph Muscat has no political substance – was true, and at that point the electorate will have to devise its own plans how to survive for 5 years under Labour.
My children moved and studied abroad and remained there. They never mention that they will come back here. Many opportunities elsewhere. Nothing lures them except the sunny weather here. Politics is a number one problem.
“Gradually it (Labour) needs to show there’s meat in the fridge” (Lino Spiteri).
Reminds me of Mintoff, round about Christmas, exhorting us to tighten our belts until the cake he was baking for nation in the oven was ready for the table – which it never did!
“Gradually it (Labour) needs to show there’s meat in the fridge” (Lino Spiteri).
Yeah. For the time being, we know that they’ve got the minimum wage in the freezer.
You’ll only find hamburgers in their fridge. They cannot afford meat.