Comments on: What is Labour’s Plan B?

By: Phili B.

Phili B. — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:10:14 +0000

Who said Muscat doesn’t have Plan B?

He will stay on as MP and get a salary, plus of course he will be entitled to the ex PM pension if he is ousted.

Is there an ex- MEP pension too to add to all this?

No Plan B my foot!

By: rjc

rjc — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:26:15 +0000

Plan B is as has happened in the past: the PN will have to sort out and clean the mess.

By: Aunt Hetty

Aunt Hetty — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:40:56 +0000

Mr X borrows a huge bank loan to build up an enterprise. When he realises that he cannot honour his financial commitments with the bank, he asks the bank to give him twice the original bank loan so that he will build up another fresh new enterprise that will make him enough profit to be able to repay the original loan and with plenty left over to fritter away.

When the bank asks for more guarantees and details of the new enterprise, Mr X waffles.

This is the sort of hare-brained , pie-in-the-sky castles-in-Spain project which Labour’s scatterbrained experts are trying to flog on us to pay for the Enemalta debt and provide cheap electricity to the people.

God save us.

By: anthony

anthony — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:11:08 +0000

Where is Labour’s Plan A ? I ask.

So far we have had pure eyewash.

By: Loyalty First

Loyalty First — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:28:06 +0000

“The restructuring of entities such as Malta Drydocks, Malta Shipbuilding, Sea Malta (defunct), Air Malta and the so-far failed restructing of Enemalta either for lack of expertise or not to lose votes have cost us dearly, and we will bear the brunt of this for a few decades to come.”

It is pertinent to note here that it was always the General Workers Union which obstructed all reforms of these mammoth corporations.

Even the latest one, EneMalta Corporation, the GWU is obstructing and has been obstructing all reforms which management wanted to carry out since the GWU is politically motivated not to lose out on the new structure which the Government wants to implement.

SO BLAME ALL THIS ON THE GWU and not on those who want and understand reforms. Even in Airmalta the GWU is always obstructing management like it used to do at the MDD since the GWU has a political agenda.

This is the last time for Tony Zarb as GWU General Secretary since he believes that the MLP will be in Government in March 2013 and that he will be repaid for his industrial sabotage by leaving ailing companies sucking the blood of the people’s work.

By: David S

David S — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:51:00 +0000

There IS Plan B, which is the Nationalist Party’s – it will be the interconnector from Sicily, where electricity cost should drop significantly, which will come operational around March 2014, just in time for the tariff reductions.

I’m not too sure the PN has driven home this argument too well.

By: Mesmes

Mesmes — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:50:54 +0000

The answer is simple: if you lose at Russian Roulette, you won’t have a Plan B.

By: Grezz

Grezz — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:22:42 +0000

In reply to maryanne. Yes, but that does not rid the man in the street of the problems he would have left behind, does it?

By: jack

jack — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:57:54 +0000

Plan B? It took them years to come up with this ‘Plan A’.

By: marcus

marcus — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:20:30 +0000

Plan B would be getting money from some where else, like raising taxes, VAT, decreasing the allocation to local councils, no other capital projects etc.

The problem is that the electoral campaign has been hijacked by the PL proposal on the new power station and nothing else is being debated.