Mamma mia, Labour doesn’t know whether it’s coming or going
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December 16, 2012 at 5:59pm
Leader Joseph Muscat, electoral-programme-writer Karmenu Vella and deputy leader Anglu Farrugia have all made conflicting pronouncements on how, when and whether a Labour government will make water and electricity cheaper to the consumer.
The latest was last night, when that cabbage Farrugia made the unequivocal declaration that Labour never said anything about cutting the cost of water to the consumer. “We never said anything about that. You’re mentioning water. We never did.”
UNBELIEVABLE.
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I agree with you, unbelievable, but more than that, this is becoming scary by the day.
After so much time spent in opposition, the Labour Party still cannot come up with a single clear political idea, let alone a vision/plan for running the country.
Way to go, Joseph – and god have mercy of us all.
And yet, considerably more than half of the electorate believe them, even if the truth is staring them in the face.
The “X Files” had the motto “I want to believe” and this is exactly what is happening in Malta.
People know that Muscat is a joke, will ruin their lives, but they want to believe.
U ejja, it was going to be a surprise, to be announced on 7 January, with the beef.
“…Eh bilhaqq, anke l-kont tal-ilma ser inrahhsulkom.”
L-aqwa li l-pjan qieghed konkret. Ma jidhirx?
Mela. Three-point plan, cara daqs il-kristall:
1. Irbah l-elezzjoni
2. Ghamel ceremonja tal-qziez f’Kastilja
3. Imbaghad naraw
I never approved of you calling persons Cabbage , Turnip etc, but this time I have to agree with you.
He was nothing but a Cabbage.
May I suggest that you add the words BASLA and Gidra to your vocabulary. they are Maltese and so more .patriotic.
May I suggest minestra , that way the majority of vegetables are included .
Better still, ‘brodu’ because it is made up of dead (beef) bones, and some of the vegetables mentioned above.
Ara kemm jerhu sugu, Alex (Secret pacts) ST, Karmenu (fakkarni) Vella, Leo (Herr Flick) Brincat, Joe (qatta bla habel) Debono Grech, Marie-Louise, Charlie (DNA) Mangion, Anglu (hares lejja) Farrugia fil-brodu ta gvern Laburista!
Cabbage? Please Daphne show some respect ….. to the vegetables.
Busuttil, Busuttil… u goal…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgJL9McKEuI
This is really precious from the deputy leader of Labour – he does not really know that his leader actually meant water and electricity?
Daphne, take a look at Maltatoday. Something is about to happen regarding Dalli and they’ve put out a story about Castille putting pressure on the police.
That will be the story of the week.
Wasn’t Saviour all sub judice once?
The PL is going to pull a rabbit out of a hat, or more likely to rob Peter to pay Paul.
People must be gullible or in denial if they believe this clap-trap.
Electricity prices and water prices are connected at the hip, even more so in Malta than most other nations with abundant fresh water.
As for water as a public utility.. both reverse osmosis and pumping stations rely on electricity, lots of electricity, generated by fossil fuels that are bought on the open market at the going world price.
My monthly electricity bill (not in Malta) just went up 12% in cost and I used the same amount of power as the previous month.
Power is generated at the local power stations by nuclear fission and by hydro generation to a lesser extent, both have relatively stable fixed costs. What did I do about it yesterday?
I bit the bullet and paid the bill. Now I hear that water prices are going to increase another 10% .
So it is not an “only in Malta” thing.
Attakk fahxi minn Professor Dominic Fenech tal-Labour fuq Franco Debono – sejjahlu ‘village idiot’.
“He drew analogies with 19th century Maltese politics. “Back then, politicians would protest British rule by nominating the village idiot to the council of government, to discredit it. Yesterday, the PL protested it being dictated to by PBS [by sending the 21st century idiot]” Prof. Fenech said.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121216/local/Xarabank-stunt-has-backfired-on-Labour.449701
You should see Joseph’s damage control this morning, elves out in force, with their ‘mhux ovvja’ and ‘u ajmaaa’ taunts. Do they really intend to spend the whole campaign playing these games?
Anglu specifically begged to differ. I don’t blame him, he simply quoted Joseph.
It was inevitable, if, or better, when he’s not aware of Joseph’s ‘plans’ he doesn’t feel he should risk. Nor would all the other mp’s, Farrugia just found himself on the line given his position. Fancy that, the higher up in Labour, the more your credibility’s at stake.
Vai avanti tu, che a me mi vien da ridere.
Why we have to witness this shambles, ten weeks from elections is so familiarly dreary.
That’s why God made the coming yellow and the going white.
Yes, God loves Labour as well.
This is incredible! I’m speechless.
It is absolutely frightening that these people will probably be ruining the country in three months’ time, despite their so obvious ineptitude.
Isn’t blind faith wonderful ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe19Sas5RSs
0:02: “Gvern Laburusti imexxi lili.”
[Ehm, tinstama ħażina.]
0:03: “Imexxi mini.”
What a Freudian slip.
Quite a slip that one.
The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.
I obviously do not mean this in the context of Matthew and the sermon on the mount.
I am referring to the English idiom here.
The PL is in a mess and pretty soon Malta will be hit by a tsunami.
Santa Rita tal-impossibbli (avvocata delle cause disperate) idhol ghalina.
Dan ir-ragel (Anglu) kretin ta’ veru.
I think that this is an occasion where editorial balance did Anglu Farrugia no favours.
He did such a good job of scuppering his own credibility that nothing Simon Busuttil said could do more then he did himself.
If he had been given less time to speak then perhaps he could have just weathered the storm of being pulled apart by someone else.
Apart from being flummoxed, flustered and utterly clueless at various stages, he seemed to have a very tenuous grasp of basic matters of fact.
It seemed to take him a few seconds to remember what indirect taxation was. When he finally remembered, the only example he could give was VAT, to which he had no response at all as to what Labour planned to do with it.
This is apart from the obvious flaw in his reasoning – if the government’s income from VAT is increasing, surely this is by no means a bad thing in itself, as it is a sign that people are spending more and that the economy is moving.
At one stage, when asked about how much Labour’s tax plans would cost, he actually said: “They will cost however much they cost”. Very reassuring.
Things got even more bizarre when he referred to Malta’s standing in the Corruption Perception Index, claiming that it was behind both Zambia and Colombia and “many African countries” and “every European country”.
In reality, Malta is 43rd, while Zambia is 88th and Colombia is 94th. There are several European countries behind Malta; Italy is 72nd.
http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/
What is hilarious is that he actually produced the piece of paper he he didn’t refer to Colombia, Zambia or European countries or even “African countries”. The best thing he could fish out was Bhutan.
Shortly later in the debate, he stated that where Malta was actually behind Colombia was in the World Bank’s Doing Business report. So he knew Malta was behind Colombia in something important, but he wasn’t sure what.
Anyway, Colombia has moved on a lot since the drug cartels had a stranglehold in the 1980s and is one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America.
Which is not to say that Malta’s position in the Corruption Perception Index is not of concern, but what is also worrying is that the person who is blustering his way through a discussion about corruption, taxation and business, like some whisky-soaked Labour Party kazin blowhard, spewing out half-remembered, muddled facts, is very likely to be the next Deputy Prime Minister.
Nista’ nkun naf kif dan l-avukat jirbah il-kawzi l-qorti ?
Meta jarawk targumenta, kif tridha ma tinzilx il-percezzjoni tal-korruzzjoni, Ang?
Taf meta mxiet ‘il quddiem il-Colombia? Meta nehhew qatta’ pulizija korrotti bhal you-know-who. Gej bil-Medellin cartels.
As soon as I heard him say that I knew he was making a mistake, but it was expected as the truth is nobody knows exactly what Labour will do, not even its deputy leader.
I have a feeling the Leader also has no clue but is doing an Alfred Sant and will wing it once he is in Castille.
Since PN has done nothing in terms of energy, I’d be interested in hearing what PL’s plans for this sector are.