Eddy Privitera, do you mean to say that you didn’t hear Joseph Muscat say that the company had never come to Malta?

Antoine Vella. Mid-dehra ghandek widnejk specjali – jisimghu kliem li Dr. Muscat ma jkunx qal !

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.

Mur hu il-pilloli Eddy u orqoghd.

Taht il-Mintoffjani l-pajjiz kellu deni ta’ ziemel bil-qaghd.

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.

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.

@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?

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.