You mean, ‘only if he can understand it’?

True, true. I suppose I like my reports to be all McCrystalline “actions to be taken”.

Partit tax-xejn – ghalhekk iridu kollox b’xejn.

shhhh sos ! Otherwise Joseph will add reducing the price tickets for coffee mornings and bingos to his short list of promises.

“These are all fictions by the evil click. We don’t need foreigners to tell us that everything is alright when we know differently. If Joseph says we’re in knee deep, then it is so. Time will prove him right like it did Sant.”

“Look at all those poor people. Look at the dwindling retail sales. Look at the electricity and gas bills. Is this standard of living? Didn’t you see that poor lady being mugged in Sliema?”

“Why, even the Mayor of London introduced a Living Wage just like Joseph said.”

“Poverty is a serious problem in Malta. Look at Airmalta – it never suffered losses under a Labour administration.”

“Mintoff would have gotten the Brazilian company by the legal balls and made sure it did not shut down and leave all those employees out of a job.”

“What about Smart City? And what about the 101 or 1001 broken promises by GonziPN?”

“Daphne, you are paid to say these things. So who would believe you?”

Suggested retort to above crap:
“Look at the figures by the NSO and compare to other countries”. Otherwise, “Burn”. And, when you stopped “burning”, look at the figures again. (WARNING: Don’t take “burn” literally please, we aren’t in the middle ages even though Labour still believes in witches”.)

Here’s one for Joseph:

12. Cyprus: Deep recession to prevail over the forecast horizon.

http://picgoes.in/v/7xa5.jpg

Reading the full report and not the short summary in The Times is even more encouraging – in particular the paragraph on the changing demographies of the labour market i.e. higher wages as a result of an increase in “high-skilled occupations”.

http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/european_economy/2012/pdf/ee-2012-7_en.pdf

Eddy is quiet and happy at the moment. He is back on the free medication pills dished out to him at he expense of the exchequer.

Titpaxxa tara dawn ir-rapporti. Hasra li nies bhal Eddy ma jaqbilhamx jifhmuhom.

C’mon Baxxter. As an economist, representing the ‘Dismal Science, we’ seem to be doing not too bad. Can’t wait to hear how the Labour multiple ‘Finance idiots’ (who’s who?) respond.