Good grief. It gets worse (and more infantile).
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November 9, 2012 at 2:22pm
This is the Labour Party’s new billboard. Has Facebook banter addled their brains, or were they addled to begin with, hence the Facebook banter?
Is this the way to discuss foreign direct investment? Or is it one of the very best ways to scare it off?
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I don’t employ anyone, yet I make use of the services provided by at least a dozen companies or freelance individuals.
Does that make me a 0 as well?
Ditto.
But don’t expect Labour apparatchiks to understand that.
But you haven’t moved your “headquarters” to Malta now have you? Nor did our prime minister boast about your investment on telly either I suspect.
Nobody: Daphne had no reply to your comment, otherwise she would have written it. So you have hit the nail on the head, much to Daphne’s displeasure !
The prime Minister was not boasting; it was Joseph Muscat who first mentioned the company from Brazil.
Well judging by your attitude, I think I better make an exit.
I won’t even go into why Odebrecht came to Malta, nor what the potential could be. Given that a registered office means nothing to you, let alone understand the reputation Mintoff gave us, Benghazi’s still off limits.
And if by investment you mean risking my own money following the crisis in 2009, instead of plain grumbling, yes he did.
You’re so absolutely pathetic and vicious in your spite, treating others with such disdain just like your latest billboard’s glee at a missed opportunity. An attitude only those who live off others will ever flaunt.
If I had any doubt, you provide ample proof what will happen to people like me once you’re there.
@ Nobody and Eddie Privitera
Admittedly, Gonzi could have handled this somewhat more professionally. What really has irked me, is the fact that the LP seems to jump for joy when companies (be they local or foreign) close shop on our island.
If you, with your horrible and warped mentalities, feel so good with such unfortunate events…Then, go right ahead.
This confirms my reasoning that the Labour Party do not have Malta and it’s people at heart.
I suggest that you read Mitt Romney’s speech after he had conceded defeat… Maybe one day people such as your like, can get it through those thick skulls of yours that a political party, being in opposition, doesn’t mean putting a spanner in the works of the ruling party by all means necessary… Think about it….
Privitera, insejta il-famuza fabbrika ta’ l-elf?
They don’t, Brian. They never did. Labour becomes the anti-state in opposition and carries the methods into power. The violence was just a matter of time.
It’s been like that since Mintoff hijacked the party, they haven’t learned an iota from Sant’s failure to acknowledge a country distinct from government, imagine now. You’ll get the Priviteras demanding their dues. As if anyone ever held them back.
Mafjuzi.
The end justifies the means, apparently.
The whole idea of billboards is to push your campaign, to try and put a point across, to convince the wavering and hopefully gather a few extra votes in the process.
You would have thought.
Not Labour, though. Labour, it seems, use billboards for a purpose best described in Maltese (perhaps because it is a uniquely Maltese concept) – “biex jahirqu l-ohrajn”.
I’m sure it will do wonders for bilateral relations with Brazil. I trust Labour. I am one of Joseph’s zaghzagh.
Daphne, it looks like anything the Labourites do is wrong and I don’t recall reading any criticism from you agains Nationalists. I suspect you side with the Nationalists ;))
Be fair for crying out loud. Above poster is well deserved by Gonzi.
[Daphne – If you don’t recall my writing anything “against Nationalists” then that’s probably because you’re not one of my readers and have been directly here through somebody’s Facebook wall. But no, I’m wrong on that score. A quick check reveals that you’ve been posting pro-Mintoff comments as A. Grech and curious for some months now. ]
“well deserved by Gonzi”, you say. How, exactly, is it meant to persuade the wavering and the die-hard anti-Labour voters that Joseph Muscat’s just what we need?
If anyone thinks that that poster is infantile, they should have tuned in to One Radio this morning.
For most of the time they were gleefully playing tunes with a Brazilain theme.
That is, when they were not flogging off that new gospel song-style song of theirs to ”jghatu gieh lil Dom Mintoff”.
The lyrics of this song have got to be heard to be believed. It is unashamedly plagiarised from popular Maltese gospel songs sung at prayer meetings.
At least they are on One Radio. I am dreading to hear them on PBS.
Forget the economy for a while. I dread to see them in government if only for this kind of behaviour. But they wouldn’t understand, would they.
maryanne: So you are happy with a prime minister LI JIPPROVA JINGANNA LIT-TELESPETTATURI BI STORJA TA’ KUMPANIJA LI KIEN JAF LI QED TGHALAQ IL-BIEB TAGHHA F’MALTA FI ZMIEN GIMGHA !
Yes, Eddy, I am happy with our prime minister. And don’t keep on shouting or you won’t get any replies.
@Eddy
Short of Gonzi turning into a Mintoff, the PN will always be a better choice than Labour in every possible field.
One day you might get it through your thick skull and realise that some of us do not vote for PN but to keep il-Mintoffjanizmu and the rabid anti-EU Labour away from power.
How’s that for a kev ‘aha’ moment?
Mur hu il-pilloli Eddy u orqoghd.
Taht il-Mintoffjani l-pajjiz kellu deni ta’ ziemel bil-qaghd.
Uncannily, for a few weeks now, my favoured tunes for relaxing are “Putumayo Presents-Brazilian Groove 2004”.
The Labour Party geniuses design their billboards only for the amusement of their own kind and those traveling during the rush hour. The problem is that the joke gets old till one gets to his destination.
A total waste of money, material, and space.
Joseph Muscat cut a very poor figure in the Xarabank debate; one of his worst moments was when he rashly claimed that the Brazilian company had never come to Malta but was promptly proved wrong by the PM.
Muscat was shocked and Labour supporters must have been dismayed: it was an incident that characterised the debate. They are therefore seeking to pick themselves up and forget that horrible (for them) moment by harping on the fact that the company employed only four people and is closing down.
That Muscat was still wrong – and stupid – to blurt out that it had never existed isn’t going to stop them, of course. On the contrary.
Antoine Vella. Mid-dehra ghandek widnejk specjali – jisimghu kliem li Dr. Muscat ma jkunx qal !
Eddy Privitera, do you mean to say that you didn’t hear Joseph Muscat say that the company had never come to Malta?
They are so retarded, it’s unbelievable.
They make it sound like it’s the end of the world. They should take the time to promote the positive stuff instead, but yeah it’s labour we are talking about.
Betsson (around 500-750 employees), Unibet and other gaming/financial companies.
And of course thanks to EU and sound policies.
Don’t forget the pharmaceutical companies – one of them is now up to two sites and a 1000+ employees.
Il-fabbrika ta’ l-elf – paying well both skilled workers and professionals thanks to the EU accession and sound policies.
And these are the people who want to run our country?
God help us all.
The Labour Party are like little boys who are stretching on tiptoes, standing on empty beer crates with their noses pressed up against the window of a brothel, sniggering at what goes on inside.
If by chance they were ever let in, they literally would not have a fucking clue.
I watched the Xarabank programme where this charade stared.
The leader of the opposition, always keen to belittle the Prime Minister (when he has nothing to show for himself), tried to diminish the importance of Dr. Gonzi’s announcement of further FDI coming to Malta by saying that he hoped this company was not like the Brazilian one which PM had announced some time ago and which never showed up.
So the first mistake was that of the Leader of the Opposition who did not have his facts right and was quickly corrected by the Prime Minister. I think that this alone should make the Labour Party shy away from this issue not make more of a fuss about it.
Apparently the Brazilian company does not employ many people – someone should tell us what business if any it has generated.
The company seems to be leaving the country soon. When I heard this my first reaction was “so what?” such companies come and go and the fact that this particular one is leaving is not the end of the world even if the Prime Minister had announced it (during some business Meeting).
I would do the same and the Dr. Muscat will do the same.
Any Prime Minister will be glad to announce FDI and rightly so because it boosts our economy.
If the FDI does not materialise or moves on to some other country the same Prime Minister will not be glad of course but this is normal in any economy unless the FDI departs as a direct result of governments inefficiency.
You win some you loose some.
What is worrying is that if the Labour party continues to push this point it is confirming that it knows nothing about business and FDI and as you said this is what scares FDI away.
First of all this is private FDI and as such they have every right to invest wherever they want and usually this depends on the tax regime and the stability of that country or region.
The fact that any FDI is coming to Malta in the current financial situation is already a great achievement for Malta and hence its Prime Minister.
Secondly the amount of business and hence wealth that a company generates for a country is not measured by the jobs created – that is a plus – but rather by the money that it leaves in that country through taxation, employment, products and services bought and other spill off.
Thirdly the only thing a government should do is to create and maintain a stable and fertile environment for these companies to remain in Malta and nothing else. When the government starts getting involved its usually time for that company to leave.
In this context i would have assumed that if the Labour party wants to make an issue it should be talking about how the government has pushed this investment away.
By making fun of the company and its country it is showing how ill-prepared it is to govern this country.
Call it a cock-up by Gonzi, but let us face it, it’s not exactly the end of the world.
I think the gist of the whole thing is that Gonzi got the fact wrong on an issue and in the grand scheme of things. If people really believe that he was trying to pull the wool over our eyes by means of this error, then they might as well vote Labour because the great party that is all things to all people (provided they are of below average intelligence) will never betray anyone.
Genna ta’ l-art Malta tkun la jitla il-Labour.
God forbid.
People like Privitera really are pleased when something bad happens, like an office closing its doors. They love bad news.
Is-sur Privitera qisu mejda tal-qubbajd – kull festa ssibu.
I happen to think that the posters put up by the PL are effective. I also happen to think that there is some thought behind them. Posters will not win any election, but they may help in certain areas.
Lately, the PL has been trying to discredit the PM through a number of these posters, and I actually think that the posters are working. Even the latest one with the Brazil shirt. The more the PL manage to sow doubts about the PM and his credibility and integrity, the better chance the PL have at winning the next election.
So as a tool in a box with a number of other tools, I think the PL’s posters are working how they want them to work.
This is not exactly news in an election campaign. Obama’s campaign very successfully managed to define Romney as a rich bastard long before Romney thought of fighting back, and when he did, it was too late. The damage had been done.
So if the PL manages to plant the seed of the PM’s fallibility in a number of people’s minds, they have scored a victory on the way to winning the next election.