Dear Daphne, I don’t think you really expect me to give you an answer to the first part of your comment,reg,the drydocks, I am sure you perfectly know that remark was meant to just generate an argument and be a bit provocative.
The other part, your question why I have become a LABURIST, needs a very serious answer,some of which I am not going to go into, as this is neither the time nor the place, If some time we meet in private, I will first introduce myself to you and than I will tell you the hundred and one reason why I will not vote P.N
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I never turned Laburist,and this I wrote on various occaisons,I will simply not vote P.N. as I do not trust many of the party’s exponents .They are not true NAtionalists but Opportunists, Their prsonal interest comes first and if you do not dance to their tune, watch it!

I supported John Dalli,who by the way has not yet been revealed a crook, because I liked the way he operated when minister, he got things done and he had an ear for suggestions that made buisness sense.

In closing, as I would not like to take too much of your space,I can honestly assure you that had you gone through some of the injustices that I suffered under MY PARTY, and especialy by one certain minister, without even a small degree of help from some others, you would not only have been hurt but you would, yes I am not ashamed of saying, be longing for Vengence.

Since we’re doing the experts’ work, here’s more.

A September 2012 EU directive on energy efficiency obliges all operators to reduce their clients’ energy consumption by 1.5% from 2014.

RIght. If Enemalta will be the distributor and Caqnu the producer, then we’ll all be Enemalta clients, and it will be up to them to reduce our energy consumption. The producer, on the other hand, can over-produce to his heart’s content and sell the surplus to Sicily, as per Joseph Muscat’s plan. But whose cable will he use? Enemalta’s, or will the cable be sold/handed over to the private operator?

See what I mean about the bureaucratic train wreck and the details which everyone is skimming over?

You don’t enter into a gentlemen’s agreement with a politician, especially in the run up to an election. Simples.

The PN had made similar promises to Sea Malta and Drydocks workers years ago and we all know what happened there too.

In any case, it’s about time the Maltese workforce grew some balls.

It’s not fair that young adults and graduates are expected to give in a full day’s worth of work and have to learn to accept definite contracts, whereas their parents’ generation għaddejjin ipappuha id-dar mas-2pm fis-sajf.

Any political party that phases out this spoon-feeding gets my vote. Alas, I can only dream.

Having said that, MLP could give me my electricity and water for free and I still would not vote for them.

My life, my future, my family’s life and future is not based on the total amount of what is spent on electricity.

People are not looking at the bigger picture.

What else is Labour promising?

Absolutely nothing of substance.

Voting Labour based on electricity bills is just stupid. So trying to guess how they are going to do it is superfluous.

True, HP. The sad thing is that people are believing this spiel hook line and sinker. If you ask me, the Nationalists are weak in their argumentation (not their arguments).

It is as if their results over the past decades are left to speak for themselves. The attitude of “no explanation is necessary”.

People (and I count myself in this) need to be reminded:

(a) what the PN did, (b) what Labour didn’t do and (c) clarify myths like Playmobil was established through the efforts of Mintoff.

In this last respect, someone on the Times pointed out that Brand was set up in 1970. The counter argument was that, fine, but Mintoff got the to produce the Playmobil toys. This is bullocks.

The Playmobil toys were invented by Hans Beck (I believe that was the name of the CEO) and Inmold was established to cater for plastic injection moulding needs of Brand. I know this for a fact.

[Daphne – That’s disingenuous, Silvio, you know that. Malta Drydocks had been bankrupt for years. Indeed, it was never going to be viable because the structure and employment level of a full naval shipyard were maintained thanks to the GWU and Labour. The drydocks bled Malta dry for three decades after the British navy left. Its employees were not sent packing. They were paid for nothing for many years, and then given golden handshakes, early retirement schemes and help in finding other work, which most of them have done, largely because they had alternative work already, I suppose. And why have you become such a Laburist all of a sudden, anyway? You used to say you turned against the Nationalist Party because you supported Dalli. Now that Dalli has been revealed as a crook, are you still supporting him? There must be some other reason.]

X’jahsbina tfal ma nafux niehdu hsieb darna. Jekk irrid jaghmel hekk ghal partitarji tieghu jaghmel li jrid.

The fact that he promises they get to keep their jobs when it’s clear what will happen.

He had to correct the definition from audit to efficiency support services.

One wonders whether it’s compulsory and if the conclusions reached by the engineers become obligatory.

Free of charge he said.

I’m not changing an iota in my house, can manage very well thank you.

We’re all still guessing, guessing, guessing.