If Muscat was so bloody wrong about Europe, just how wrong do you think he is about a power station project?

Published: January 12, 2013 at 2:25pm




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  1. Jozef says:
    January 12, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    The campaign has been hijacked by a couple of gas tanks. All he does is to stimulate the voter’s curiosity.

    If he could, he’d issue a proposal by the hour, leaves him at the top of website updates.

    ‘Muscat says, Muscat pledges, ad nauseum.

    He’s killing it.

    Leaving voters at home works to his advantage.

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  2. jack says:
    January 12, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    So far I have not seen the PN scoring heaving points on Joseph Muscat’s take of going the Cyprus way.

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  3. Tonio Bone says:
    January 12, 2013 at 3:08 pm

    I would not say that Muscat was wrong about Europe. He was Alfred Sant’s disciple at the time and followed his leader, as all good disciples should do.

    It is true that Labour, 25 years +/- (less a 22 month pit-stop resulting in epic fail) in the Opposition did just that on all matters of national and non-national interest: OPPOSE.

    Is that what they are meant to do, objectively yes, but only when the party in government is taking a path that would damage the nation.

    Did Labour operate that way?

    Muscat has been promising lower utilities because he knows it is what has hit the families most.

    It is a clear and aggressive sales pitch that will endear Labourites to the cause, but it might also persuade dormant and disgruntled PN voters to go to the Polls….and vote PN!

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  4. Floating says:
    January 12, 2013 at 4:35 pm

    Bloody wrong about Europe? Whether this true or not is not the point. EU membership effected different people in different ways, individually and collectively, not to mention that it was on the brink of bankruptcy. For sure it was not the financial stability heaven Simon Busuttil used to harp about 10 years ago, and thank God that after 2003 the PL has developed a phobia towards EU criticism, for it now would have a field day with Simon’s pre-accession prediction clips and promises.

    In any case, today such an argument is not a vote winner, but quiet strategically counter productive. At best it assumes that few of those who voted in favour (and their children) have any misgivings. When it is not the case. People in Europe still elect eurosceptic leaders anyway.

    The PL power plan may not be perfect, perhaps far from it, but in my opinion the way the PN is criticising it is also puerile. Ridiculing it is not the way. Neither is the blatant imbalance being shown by WE on public TV. It is making the PN appear paternalistic, aided and arrogant, when it was caught napping in this area.

    In their psyche many people may know that even if doable, PL’s projections on it are over-optimistic. But they are much appreciating PL’s genuine commitment and effort to a cleaner energy, if not lower and regular tarriffing. In not building a gas plant in the first place, instead of an HFO one, PN does not have any moral advantage on the issue, no matter the details and costings. And that may prove fatal. When someone proposes something ‘healthy’, most people would want it at all ‘costs’.

    The useless parliament costed almost as much anyway, so might as well give this less useless thing a chance.

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    • M. Bormann says:
      January 12, 2013 at 4:59 pm

      Do you know the difference between ‘effect’ and ‘affect’?

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    • Snoopy says:
      January 12, 2013 at 5:01 pm

      “The useless parliament costed almost as much anyway”

      Is around 15% of the cost of the Partit tal-Likes proposal, “almost as much”? If so, I would be very happy if you could send me the difference.

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    • Futur Imcajpar says:
      January 12, 2013 at 10:40 pm

      The PN has not been caught napping in this area. All these proposals were considered and discarded because they were not feasible, years ago.

      The PN already has a clear strategy regarding electricity generation. That is to connect Malta to the European grid and to lay a pipeline to Sicily to have a supply of gas. The reason this has not yet happened is because the government had to convince the EU to foot most of the bill, which it will in the next budget. When that’s in place, the tariffs will be revisited without putting the country’s finances at risk.

      Anyone hearing Dr Tonio Fenech speaking about the project could immediately conclude that he was far more knowledgeable on the project than that Konrad Mizzi was.

      Do you think that the government built the first power station that was offered to them? Did you see the pile of fat reports and detailed studies that Dr. Fenech re-submitted for scrutiny? Compare those to the flimsy presentation Mizzi used to explain the project and it becomes glaringly obvious who’s been caught napping.

      But it is quite obvious that you are prepared to put your trust where it is so poorly deserved. I wouldn’t mind it so much if it was only your own foot you will be shooting. Unfortunately that’s not the case.

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