Labour’s dreams for our children: LOWER WATER AND ELECTRICITY BILLS
This is the newspaper advertisement version of one of the new Labour billboards (they use several at the same time, because they’re naturally confused).
It encapsulates, beautifully, the difference between the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party. On a PN billboard, that little girl’s face would have been paired with an appeal to her parents and older relatives to vote so as to make her a citizen of the European Union (and in fact, there was something just like that at the time).
But Joseph Muscat, who campaigned so ferociously so that same little girl on his billboard posters would stay forever the citizen of a opportunity-free 17 mile by nine rock in the cusp between Tunis and Tripoli, now gives her the biggest dream he can think a little girl might need for her future:
LOWER WATER AND ELECTRICITY BILLS
At this point, I think every parent should tell Labour, loudly and clearly, to go f**k itself.
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Poor kid who was used for that Billboard. People will remember her for life.
According to this billboard they are promising to lower all bills not just water and electricity.
[Daphne – Time to buy a new bathroom then.]
U Gonzi PN GHAD IRID JAGHMEL IL-KONTJIET MAL-POPLU MALTI, fl-elezzjoni li gejja !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Daphne – Mr Privitera, I repeat (ad nauseam): you should use only a single exclamation or interrogation mark unless you wish to come across as a member of the Anglo-Saxon underclass.]
Sew qalulek, Privitera, skadut int.
Tant int skadut li iddarrasli l-istonku bl-injoranza baxxa li ghandek.
Jekk ghandek it-tfal, imsieken. Qas b’xejn ma rrid ikolli xi hadd bhalek fil-familja tieghi.
Jaqq!
I suppose I would be joining you there, then ! There you are , OK ?
He’ll never learn. Don’t waste your time with the likes of him.
Mr. Privitera, you should thank Daphne for expressly allowing you to use exclamation marks at all. You should familiarise yourself with her terms and conditions for using this blog.
Daphne, according to one of their latest PL billboards, the socialists are now promising to only reduce electricity rates, and not also water rates.
This means that they’ve already gone one step back on their promise to slash water and electricity tariffs.
I clearly recall Muscat stating that he will reduce the utility bills “b’mod responsabbli” – the eejit let the cat out of the bag – obviously read “bi ftit, b’ammont nominali” i.e. insignificant – for “responsabbli”.
He was of course acknowledging reality and being honest.
But, without any due respect, I would hazard a guess that 60% of voters are cabbages so they would fall for the “inrahhsu” ruse, and never see through “responsabbli” even if they tried.
Insejt x’qal Gonzi dwar li se “jnaqqas” ir-rata tat-taxxa minn 35% ghal 25% ????????????????????????????”
Madoffi x’antipatiku! (Skuzawni, mdorri nuza ‘!’ wahda).
Tghaggilx, Sur Privitera.
I remember him saying ‘b’mod sostenibli’ which many understood as ‘b’mod sostanzjali’.
So he will probably stop sending the meter reader around, stop sending the bill by post and hey presto he will reduce the bills by the same amount. Sostenibli.
Then you get to login to Arms, submit your meter readings and pay your bills online.
One could even consider closing up the Arms customercare office (early retirement) and set up a call centre (more jobs). Cheaper and the laburisti will be so happy! Sostenibli.
This Muscat thinks he’s a genious, unfortunately he is surrounded by many more of the same.
60% of voters are cabbages….well if you voted for gonzi guess your one of them ;)
I’m afraid the PN wannabes don’t make it past the superficial, there’s nothing beneath.
Watched Iswed fuq L-abjad yesterday, the discussion was about capital investment, tourism and restoration projects, De Marco and Pullicino literally walked all over Gulia and Buhagiar.
The latter produced three images of a couple of square meters of snags to illustrate GonziPN’s failures, he was utterly pathetic.
Gulia resorted to the crafts village, of all things, to spout something.
I hate the crafts village, I find it an excuse for tasteless Mintoffian haddiem rhetoric and the imposition of bad taste on children, exposed by the busload to that other contradiction in terms, national culture.
If Pullicino literally walked all over Gulia and Buhagiar, then God help them.
Jekk Pullicino “jghaddi” minn fuq xi hadd nahseb li ma jibqax haj ! Pullicino kien , ma nafx ghadux, li kien responsabbli mil-MEPA,
il-Kapolavur tal- MISTHIJA li ghandna f’pajjizna (il-MEPA) !
Eddy Privitera, il-ministru Pullicino ilu ma jkun risponsabbli mill-MEPA min qabel l-elezzjoni tal-2008.
Basta titkellem, imbagħad qed tgħix fuq il-qamar. .Żatat.
Privitera – Bid difetti kollha tal-MEPA tghid ma nippreferux is-sistema ta Lorry Sant?
Mhux ovvja li wiehed bhalek jattakka Mepa. Il-verita’ hija li nies nvoluti fil-process tal-permessi, membri tas-sorvaintendenza u osservaturi jghidu haga wahda, li ghal-certi nies Mepa ‘iebsa zzejjed’ jew ahjar, mhix korrotta bizzejjed.
Mepa llum taqa’ taht id-dekasteru tal-prim ministru. X’tixtieq Privitera, ix-xalata fejn n-nies tibni bl-addocc mbaghad japplikaw ghas-sanctioning? Ir-riforma qatghet il-hara lil hafna cowboys li issa gew jaraw x’ser jiehdu minn ghandkom. Biex taccettaw wiehed mixli li nfexx isawwat bniedem u issa jippretendi li l-gvern jixtri il-griebeg li tella’, bhala wiehed minnkom, vera wasaltu fit-tarf.
Basta tridu tghozzu l-ambjent, kif appena r-regoli jihraxu tibdew teqirdu. Ghandkom ghazz fil-hsieb u telqa fl-ispirtu li lanqas biss tiftiehmu. Tghidu kollox u l-kontra ta’ kollox. Mbasta kontra. Pajjiz tohonquh bil-qrusa.
Hawnhekk trid tibda tirraguna Sur Privitera, mhux twaddab ic-cucati.
Labour must really work hard to come out with such crass stupidity.
They would be more successful if they left their campaign to nine year olds.
Thank God for small mercies: they didn’t promise “Living wage paid to husbands, so the wives can stay at home”
The more time passes, we realise that Joseph Muscat’s priorities are topsy-turvy.
Childrens future is closely linked with education.
The Nationalist Government is on the right track as regards education by building new and modern schools, and by equipping classrooms with interactive whiteboards and laptops. What is Labour offering for children? The repeater class. Tal-biza.
I’m afraid Labour is going to f–k us all.
It’s been quite a while since I told Labour, ‘Go f**K yourself’.
And now, as a parent, I shall.
Franco Haiku;
Cock loses his ‘nuts’
in the pot with veg and herbs
bubbling merrily.
if you really want this country to offer the best for the coming generations, think long term, think PN.
As if 25 years haven’t been “long-term” ! Or do you wish GonziPN to beat the likes of Gaddafi, Ben-Ali, and all those leaders of other countries where, in reality,, are ONE-PARTY STATES ?????
[Daphne – No. We just wish that Labour were fit for purpose. You’d think they’d have retrenched by now. But no. The reality is that Labour was never fit for purpose, but the lower standards of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s concealed that.]
This country’s had free elections for the past 25 years.
Your argument verges on incitement Mr.Privitera.
Mur intefa ma’ hajt. Ja njurant.
So when, not if, Dr.Muscat’s PL movement gets elected, how would you consider the standards of the Maltese people ?
Mr. Privitera, this post is about “kontijiet,” so please let me correct your maths.
The PN has been in government since 1998, so that’s 14 years. How could you forget that there was a Labour government for 22 months between 1996 and 1998? I suppose that if Labour is so good at governing the country, you would do your best to remind us of its terms in government.
I remember especially when they froze Malta’s application to join the EU, when the Labour Deputy Prime Minister called the University students “abjetti” and how Labour replaced VAT by CET.
That’s a brilliant idea; children can leave all the rooms lit even if they are not present and have hour-long showers. Mothers and fathers will not complain as the state will be sponsoring waste.
and let them know that if they ever offer their services for a tender, its useless since it would already be given discreetly to il-hbieb tal-hbieb…
Sorry DCG, but I prefer FD’s blog :-)
Istja, but you came here to point it out.
Anyway, Franco’s blog goes down well with Labourites, all their “go for it Franco, you da man!” comments get published, the stinging ones rarely do.
There are many “stinging ones” too. So you are grossly mistaken, or malicious in your comment !
Nice. The little girl will now afford to take a shower every day.
Futur li Jaqq-Ghadna.
”Id-Dejma” and ”Dirghajn il- Maltin” were,. according to the presenter of a ONE radio program right now (14.32pm), part of the ”gid” and successful progressive european education system of the golden Mintoffian era and part and parcel of the student-worker scheme of the times. Thanks to these ”korpi” people got a good education and training in the trades.
Taking part in this discussion and in full agreement was whizz kid Conrad Mizzi
UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE!
Ghid minn ghandkhom li jista jhabbatha ma Conrad Mizzi f’GonziPN ? Il- Junior Accountant Tonio Fenech ???
Konrad Mizzi ma riedx jirrispondi kif ser jaqleb il-power stations ghal-gas, gimgha ilu.
Mid-dehra ghadu ma’ jafx kif. Basta energy consultant.
Conrad bill-K jispellija. Qas tafu sew tiktbu l-ismijiet tal-grupp taghkom ahseb u ara kemm tafu min huma, x’inhuma u xi jsarrfu.
Tronga!
Ah yes, the ‘energy consultant’ who’s keeps quiet whilst Labour puts forward hare-brained proposals like the Sargas experimental power station.
The poor chap who, like other countless labour supporters, suffered discrimination at the hands of the gOnZiPN Evil KlikK – you know, like when he “joined the Office of the Prime Minister as a management consultant where he led various projects” (having just graduated) and subsequently “held the position of CIO at Enemalta”.
He also had to endure being “awarded a Chevening Scholarship”, which naturally is always given on pure merit. With contacts like his, no wonder he joined the sales team of a private company.
What, is Labour’s energy spokesman Konrad Mizzi now?
Was it not Marlene Pullicino, the one who learned about the carbon capture techonologies from the internet while Labour was pushing for a Sargas carbon capture power station?
Labour’s energy policies never fail to shock me.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/bondi-and-the-power-station/
Naturalment, dawk li dahlu f’Dirghajn il-Maltin u Korpi ohra sakemm sabu impjieg ahjar, hafna minnhom mal-gvern, inthom xtaqtuhom li jemigraw lejn l-Awstralja u l-Kanada, kif kien ikollhom jaghmlu fis-snin 60. Halli b’hekk jonqsu bl-eluf il-laburisti minn pajjizna. U l-PN jibqa dejjem fil-poter !
U l-PN xorta baqa dejjem fil-poter, Sur Privitera.
Izda ghaliex kellu l-ahjar politika u l-ahjar imhuh, u holoq u qassam il-gid sew.
Joseph ma’ jaqbilx mieghek, jinsisti li l-PN kiseb is-successi elettorali (int issejjahlu poter) ghax resaq lejn ix-xellug u ghamel votanti tieghu eluf li kienu jivvutaw ghal-Labour. Ezattament ghax-spiccaw jaghzqu taht il-bankini li jkunu ghadhom kemm qalghu biex jergghu ippogguhom.
Int stess qed tghidha, ‘sabu xoghol ahjar’
Nithassrek Sur Privitera, jkollok tmeri lilek nnifsek biex zzomm il-Labour fuq l-idejn, qisek zugraga.
What tosh! Those two ‘korpijiet tax-xoghol’ had absolutely nothing to do with the worker-student scheme,
They were set up to try to bring down the unemployment numbers which were spiralling out of control. And you would have had to look very hard for anyone with a single qualification to his name.
The only thing they had in common with the student-worker scheme was the mediocrity of thought behind them.
PS No wonder Dom Mintoff spirited off his daughters to the UK for a sound (and very expensive) education in the UK at the time.
So, according to you, all those professionals, labourites and nationalists etc.., who studied and got their degree during the 1970s and 1980s do not have a sound education, is that right ?
It’s the ones who did not study and get a degree during the 1970s and 1980s that should worry us, Mr. Privitera.
That was the time when a university degree was “bicca karta tal-incova” according to the great Dom Mintoff.
Ok, this is exactly what’s wrong with Franco Debono:
‘At this stage, as Franco Debono tried to speak, the Speaker, Michael Frendo said he had not yet given him permission to do so. Dr Borg then resumed his comments, whereupon Dr Debono walked out, ‘thanking’ Dr Borg for not giving him permission to speak.’
Where does he get his logic, at Lidl?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121004/local/borg-insists-no-urgency-for-debate-on-car-parks-privatisation.439639
What’s Fr.Mark Montebello doing next to Franco anyway?
Joe Grech
Today, 15:56
@ J. Busuttil.
Jekk jogghok tista tghid lill popli Malti kemm telgha id-dejn ta’ Malta matul l-ahhar snin? Fejn PL fi snin 80 ma kienx kemm centezmu dejn. Jew din ma tissejjahx ekonomija????
Hilarious – this guy thinks that economy means ‘trekken u tahbi taht is-saqqu’, like the MLP used to do in the 80’s, and not investing in ones infrastructure and citizens.
U tberbqu milljuni kbar fi progetti bla sens. U fi progetti li jispicca jiswew id-doppju milli kienu stmati ! Tghid ikun hemm xi parti li tithallas f’donazzjoni lill GonziPN – dik il- famuza lista ‘JS’ li GonziPN QATT ma cahad li tezisti, fejn kuntratturi li jiehdu kuntratti tal-gvern jintghalbu jghatu f’donazzjoni lill- partit !
Dak zgur investiment tajjeb – ghal GonziPN !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Semmi progett bla sens.
yawn ……..
YAWN!
Sur Privitera, bi progetti bla sens, forsi qed tirreferi ghal-isptar li Alfred Sant kien sejjahlu “state of the art”?
That is what I really think about Labour: go f**k yourself.
We want high quality education so that we can equip ourselves with the best possible knowledge and then it is up to each individual to find the best employment to suit his aspirations.
How can floating voters be ever convinced by Labour? I’m baffled.
Frans Cassar: Youll be baffled much more in a few weeks or months, when you will not be able to understand what has hit GonziPN !
Ghidilna, what’s hitting Labour mela.
Old bed-ridden folks like you.
[Daphne – Hekk ghidlu, old bedridden folks like him. Dak ha jizzewweg, tafx? Ghandu ‘parrrtnerrr’ u se jgib id-divorzju minghand il-mara. Baqalux zmien ukoll: forsi s-sena d-diehla igiba zewg: jizzewweg u jitlalu l-uno (Labour).]
Oh, it’s easy to understand: intelligent people will always be a minority. As Churchill said “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”.
Having said that, to quote Churchill again, “Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” So we have no choice, really.
Thankfully Labour are now coming round to the NP’s stance that education is key to this country moving forward. Hopefully it will result in more discerning voting too – such that Konrad Mizzi, Owen Bonnici and others will replace the likes of Luciano Busuttil, Anglu Farrugia & co.
Privitera, do you realise that before every election you repeat something along the lines that Labour will walk over PN?
Do you realise that invariably when you lose Labour predicts the new government won’t last more than one year? Some foresight you have in your party.
LOL. But even PN have multiple billboards around, no?
[Daphne – No. It’s just the one (first ‘Labour won’t work’ and now ‘wage freeze’.]
And both Billboards are based , 1. A prediction, hence not on reality.
2. A LIE !
What do you mean based on prediction and lies?
They are based on the experience of the Golden Years, when Malta experienced high levels of unemployment and the wage freeze.
I am disgusted at their latest billboard featuring our PM covering his eyes. In my opinion they purposely timed it to coincide with 5 + 5 meetings to embarrass government.
This crap is what really promotes instability and scares off foreign investors.
Those boards won’t scare foreign investors. They show that the PM can lead the country even blindfolded.
The phrase Joseph Muscat used recently in one of his speeches ‘what you see is what you get’.was originally coined by an American comedian popular in the sixties and seventies, Flip Wilson.
When Flip Wilson said it it was funny. When Joseph Muscat says it it’s scary.
Good one, Marlene. Bet ya, Eddy Privitera did not understand you.
I would rather get what I see – Dr. Muscat. Then get what I don’t see- Austin Gatt !
Dan ghax ismar?
Ma nibdewx bir-razzismu isa, qed narahom ghajnejk zoroq.
Eddy, ghadek thossha s-sensazzjoni? Nawguralek zwieg hieni.
Forsi taqta twins mad-disa xahar. “….. a crutch a crutch why call you for a …..”
Out of subject but could not resist sending you this link:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=465515953479395&set=a.435168469847477.100242.100000629830661&type=1&theater
Modern day Quccija with a tattoo gun, a packet of cigarettes, what looks like a flick knife and rosary beads…no more comments required
Twits to the very end.
Are grandparents allowed to say ‘Fuck Off’ also?
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=432679776789056&set=pb.118054371584933.-2207520000.1349384730&type=1&theater
Why isn’t anyone doing the math?
300,000 bills issued by Enemalta. If bills under Labour are lowered by just 10 Euros per month what would it change?
Nothing will change to your lifestyle but to the country…….10 x 12 months = 120 Euros x 300,000 = 36 million Euros each year.
Enemalta will be bankrupt in no time.
The EU will intervene and we’ll be asking for a bail-out in no time.
Labour have already taken our country through this time and again. In the 70s, the 80s and the late 90s. They never learn and we get to pay dearly every time.
WE’re paying dearly for all those projects which end up costing double the estimate !
look who’s talking!
This little girl’s future is in the balance.
It all depends on the kontijiet.
Poor little girl.
She is unable to comprehend what is in store for her.
Her parents, who probably comprehend as much as her, or less, will almost certainly vote PL for a few cents’ reduction in the kontijiet tad-dawl u l-ilma.
By doing so they will **** her future.
She will stand a good chance of spending the rest of her life cleaning toilets at White Rocks or elsewhere on Scicluna’s minimum wage B or C.
If Malta deserts the EU, she will be joining Ahsel u Naddaf on a wage paid in Liri Maltin.
Poor thing.
That ” poor little girl” receives children allowance introduced by, you know who ? Mintoff !
And paid for by Gaddafi (l-aqwa li ma nhaffrux ghaz-zejt u nibnulhom moskea u skola)
Exactly my thoughts whilst driving in Marsa today when I saw the billboard. Unfortunately my windows were open as I shrieked what the f..k.
My next thoughts were that of my daughter who constantly asks “how” ….Can Labour give the little girl her answer too.
Din it-tifla fejn tmur skola? Chiswick House bhal ta’ Luciano Busuttil jew L-Imselliet bhal ta’ Joseph u Michelle?
H.P.Baxter, int ghandek jew kellek tfal ? Fejn kont tibghathom ?
Lili baghtuni San Alwigi u form II ghamiltha ma’ Malta kollha, bil-mohbi ghand in-nies.
O zmien helu.
So taking the argument to extreme, who needs wages? All we need are vouchers and coupons for shopping with white outfits made available to everyone. No wonder they are back to admiring Mintoffian politics.
Issue bills at more frequent intervals, so that the amount due in “il-kont” will be less. So yeah, labour’s promise is possible. Viva l-manipulżjoni tal-imħuħ “ejburustu u floating vowter.”
MuscatMLP 2016 (Divorce from Brussels) Campaign:
Bail Out Iva. EU Le.
issa din gdida; Xogħol li jixraqlek biex int tgħix aħjar, Arja aktar nadifa għal uliedna… jikkupjaw il-proposti antiki tal PN
Skaduti. M’ghandhom xejn. Lanqas ftit melh ma baqalhom. Zero!
Bid-differenza li hafna mill-weghdi tal-PN QATT ma twettqu – LIRA B’LIRA, INNEHHU L-INCOME TAX, F’DAREK, FIT-TRIQ , FUQ IX-XOGHOL BLA BIZA, , KULL META TIXGHEL IS-SWITCH IKOLLOK ID-DAWL ETC…..
I see this blog has acquired a new mascot. Eddy Privitera has taken over from Laiviera and James Tyrell as the resident troll.
I urge all PN and floating voters to vote PN in the next election. If you do not vote it would be like giving a vote to the MLP.
I’m sure many of us at times have been angry with the government and say you won’t vote if there had to be an election tomorrow, but you would only be cutting of your nose to spite your face.
Only the MLP say that there is instability because that is what they want, that is what they are trying to create. They don’t care and will stop at nothing to bring down the government.
The Malta Labour Party are very bad news and Malta would be ruined in less than a year of a MLP government.
Naturally the bills do affect the child’s life. If her parent’s have less bills to pay her life would be much more simpler.