Wall to wall Konrad Mizzi
I’m watching Bondi+. Today, I have already seen Konrad Mizzi on Super One during a live broadcast of the Labour Party’s press conference. Then I watched him live on TVHemm. And now he’s on Bondi+.
And each time, his ‘facts’ change. He fudges further.
Confronted with the fact that security risk assessments take a year, he replied “But that consultant is used to dealing with bigger power stations.”
Oh come on, Konrad. He’s a security risk consultant who came to talk about a specific project. Rest assured that he would have checked what size it is before speaking about it.
Tal-biki. Really. No wonder the only people who are impressed by him are the sort who I long ago cast as ‘third-rate brain’. I won’t, of course, mention names.
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Riding to victory on Konrad’s back. That trusty steed, with an illustrious history in……roundabouts.
Konrad and Franco – the dream team.
Ah Giovanni, there is a certain je ne sais quoi in the air, a whiff of something fresh amidst the fog of Konrad, it must be the lack of Franco; blissful.
Konrad Mizzi was also this morning on TVAM.
I see in Konrad Mizzi the new Alfred Sant.
He distinctly reminds me of Dr. Sant during an interview with Reno Bugeja before the 2008 elections.
Bugeja: “Dr. Sant, inti tahseb li l-Ewropa ser taccetta li jerggha jinfetah il-pakkett?”
Dr. Sant: “Konvint.”
“Ghandi feeling”
Remember that one?
Sparat se jitla’ dan, a spejjez tal-Ministru tas-Sawt. Lanqas haqq kemm gera wara xjuh u jigbrilhom pilloli, Silvio Parnis.
Dan se jfejjaqom mil marda tal-kancer, x’cuc huma l-pilloli.
People of Marsaxlokk, take note.
1. Do not vote Labour because Konrad Mizzi has basically stated that the project will proceed immaterial of whether the study is ready or not. And if you were not one of those people lucky enough to interviewed in a vox pop, your view does not count.
2. Do not vote Labour because Konrad Mizzi is inviting the private enterprise to carry out the health and safety assessments within 3 months and not the standard time where the impact of seasons are studied. Even more so Malta where the different winds impact our shores extensively. Remember Chernobyl and the latest Japanese power station problem.
3. Most improtantly, do not vote Labour, because they have effectively, as of today, halved the value of your property.
People of Malta take note.
1. Do not vote Labour, because they are going to take us back to a time when our safety and views counted for nothing.
2. Do not vote Labour because all they are is a bunch of boys who are trying to see whose dick is biggest.
3. Do not vote Labour, because when this fails, and it will, we will find ourselves with an unfinished power station, a private enterprise that has cut its losses and left, and no funding or connections with the EU. And worse still with more expensive energy costs because of the failure in this project and the failure of the pipeline due to lack of funding.
You must be super human to watch him twice in a day.
[Daphne – Oh, it’s not working in a quarry. At least I’m sitting down.]
Yes, all well and true, but it is most depressing that the majority DOES NOT see through the smoke and mirrors.
Watched a ‘discussion’ programme on NET TV in which Marlene Farrugia (JPO’s ex wife) was a guest.
God almighty, talk about a fishwife. No one could get a word in edgewise. Bla nifs.
Kien veru miskin JPO.
u hekk baqa
X’ma jistinkax favur id-divorzju.
Yes, they’ve thrown Konrad Mizzi in our face at every opportune or inopportune moment.
The whole of Labour’s campaign is focussed on the power station, while nobody seems to be questioning their proposals on other – equally important – matters.
At this rate, they will get away with anything.
They are not going to get away with the promise of reducing utility tariffs.
I’m afraid you’re right. After tonight’s performance, Tonio Fenech’s concluding statement directed at Konrad sounded so true.
I had mixed feelings, loathing the cheek and feeling sorry for him at the same time. All I know is that any comedy has been overshadowed by some very sinister prospects.
Labour’s proposal isn’t safe, and not because of what they think could be the problems. The true problem, a core issue, is that they’re testing their case against the arguments being presented to them.
It’s no joke, seeing them retreat very slowly into a subtle silence where to consider what they’re being told.
I got the same feeling watching the journalists from ONE being lectured the culture of planning, design and owning a project.
The distortion done to the merits of safety and its aspect, where it has to be a criterion from day one, and not some package to be integrated at a later stage, is asking for trouble.
One does not, as Konrad said, make the choices, then expect to absolve risk by buying some prepackaged mitigating factor. The superficiality betrayed by his words, but also Cilia Vincenti’s are unacceptable.
The question we should ask him is, is he willing to sign off the choice and carry the burden of risk?
Of course not.
Labour’s proposal fits perfectly the following definition of “a big lie.”
“…in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”
– Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf. Translation by James Murphy.
A big “Thank you” – because I have never brought myself to actually read Adolf’s very words in his ‘magnum opus’, even though having read a variety of biographies of the man and of some of his cronies.
Interesting reading:
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/gas_pricing_europe.pdf
Now that we are drowned in liquid gas.
The ancient Greek democratic state principles start appealing at times.
Mr Seaman said that the MLP proposed power plant is smaller than normal, so it has to be designed specifically for us, and that will take longer and increases the expenses.
It’s not a run of the mill product which can be picked up from a shelf.
In layman’s terms we need a car smaller than a Mini Minor, and we can’t just put the engine and parts of the Mini on the new car, it will probably be a prototype.
Before assembling the car experts check for any flaws at the design stage, and safety experts like Dr Seaman will be extra careful when they inspect and asses the new product. This costs time and money.
By MLP reasoning: infrastructure to a standard size of such a plant equals 100 per cent.
What we need is a third of the size, so it will cost 33 per cent.
There sinks the ship of reasoning.