Comments on: This is what I mean when I say that people like Joseph Muscat and Franco Debono are bloody irresponsible

By: Angus Black

Angus Black — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:55:44 +0000

‘Questions sent to Labour yesterday remained unanswered”.

Well it shouldn’t be so damned difficult for the Labour Party.

After all they are promising everything to everyone, doable or not, so why not answer the question?

Maybe they did by e-mail which, because of a computer error, went to RTK instead.

By: mixx09

mixx09 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:44:39 +0000

Don’t know about you but if this is the best they’ve got to offer, their so-called energy trump card, then we’re heading for trouble come March 9th and beyond.

By: zbubu

zbubu — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:27:37 +0000

take your time Daph, dont hurry to submit my comment I stated this afteroon.

By: Riya

Riya — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:55:44 +0000

Franco is not only a highly irresponsible person but a huge coward, because if his target was Austin Gatt he should have been a real gentleman and voted against Austin Gatt, and not against the budget.

His vote againts the budget effected all the Maltese people and the whole economy and not the Nationalist party or Austin Gatt.

But I am sure that with all his high results when he was in form 2 and moeover with his degree, he was not able to realise and foresee the effects on the country by his decision and therefore he is a very dengerous and incompitent persion.

By: silvio

silvio — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:58:16 +0000

All this could have been avoided when Gonzi should have called it a day months ago.

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:13:14 +0000

Even if the Labour Party thinks it over and finally promises to copy-cat the Nationalist Party assurance, it would still require an act of faith on the part of prospective car buyers. All Malta remembers how the student stipends were demolished after the 1996 election win by the MLP.

By: Neil Dent

Neil Dent — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:18:02 +0000

I tried to speak sense in a comment wherein I lamented that had the budget been allowed to pass, all would be fine, the elections would still be round the corner, and that the MLP would have surely gained from an act of parliamentary maturity.

Apparently all I’m doing is spreading lies, however, because everyone knows that any opposition voting against a budget is apparently set in stone, like the eleventh commandment!

So we must realise that these ignoramuses are happy to allow the economy to deteriorate and put jobs and businesses at risk, as long as the MLP ‘won’ the budget vote.

They can’t see the woods for the trees, and it’s not worth arguing with them.

By: Jolly Roger

Jolly Roger — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:08:45 +0000

We have had enough of bluffers and bullshitters. Kif jghidu bit-taljan

“non li posso soffri” dawn it-tnejn. Insopportabli. Jghidu li haddiehor arroganti u huma arroganti daqshekk. Ma humiex kapaci u jridu jilhqu. Allajbierek.

By: aJS

aJS — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:31:25 +0000

Any reasonably good newspaper should investigate the effects on property too.

A number of people have postponed purchases leaving sellers very much in the lurch and under considerable strain.

Effects on real estate agencies include higher overall incidence of overheads.

Not to mention shrinkages in ancillary services.

Also, include the added effect of reduced demand for bank loans and higher pressures on loan repayments.

While this may be temporary, there have been no guarantees by Labour that they will respect the higher ceilings on real estate taxes proposed by the Nationalists.

We cannot afford to have a country scared of investment. We’ll soon be travelling down the path of other countries.

Anyone thinking of not voting? Anyone disguised as a disgruntled Nationalist? While we may have a reason to be generally annoyed. However, at least under the Nationalists business and life moved in the right direction – forwards.

At least, we could wake up in the morning and live our daily lives ignoring the fact that the Malta Labour Party remain completely in the dark with respect to economic progress.

Soon we’ll realise that we made a damn mistake in trusting Muscat and his “tim maghqud” of merry men

Oh, and one last thing: why are special purpose vehicles for funding projects now OK in the eyes of Labour?

By: Min Jaf

Min Jaf — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:04:11 +0000

The nameless party led by Joseph Muscat has only just launched its cunning plan and the chickens are already coming home to roost.

Perhaps Sandro Chetcuti would care to send in a report on the effect of the budget stunt on the property sales front.

Another valid contribution is awaited from Charles Mangion regarding the effect on property transfer contracts.