Exactly what did James Piscopo do at Air Malta – keep the books?
James Piscopo, CEO of Malta Taghna Lkoll/JosephMuscatDotCom/Partit Laburista, who is on loan from Air Malta to the political party on the proviso that he can return to the airline any time he wishes, has sent out an email (see earlier post).
It includes the immortal lines:
This is a clever distraction from an oil corruption scandal that we now know has cost Malta’s people an estimated €360 million (and counting).
That is over €1million per day for every man, woman and child living in this country today.
As some people might say on Facebook, WTF?
1. Where did the figure of €360 million come from? Isn’t that (actually, much more) what the Drydocks cost the exchequer between their main customer refusing to renew their contract on their military base in 1979 and the docks closure a few years ago?
2. The population of Malta is 420,000. One million per day for each of these would be €420,000,000,000 a day, and not “€360 million (and counting)” over an unspecified period.
Is this how they worked out the costings on their electoral proposals? I hope not. But I suspect so.
Il-vera bunch of amateurs, jahasra. Not fit for purpose.
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Heh – you beat me to it on the daily sum bit.
Hemm hu l-mug! Jisthajjlux Winston Churchill.
I thought it was 1 euro per metric tonne. Circa 10K euros per day. Circa 3.6 million per year. ERRRMMMM…..has the corruption/price of oil etc. etc……been going on for 100 years?
And people are planning on trusting them with Malta’s finances. Hopefully he is not an accountant with AirMalta, but if he is it would explain AirMalta’s issue too.
Actually the amount mentioned was $1 per ton
When it is 3.6 million you wouldn’t worry that much, unless its Rupees or Swiss francs.
Wilson, go easy on downplaying Swiss Francs, the best investment available. The gnomes of Zurich are all knowing, and all powerful.
The real value of the Swiss Franc is .90-1.00 CHF to 1,00 Euro. Trust me. The gnomes, themselves are shoring up the Euro, to keep an export advantage.
Wilson, thank God he’s not a pilot.
Why don’t PN’s media agencies follow up these stories?
Somehow I think the PN has something up their sleeve to dish out closer to the election. I mean … these cock ups need to be picked on but the PN keeps silent.
Take it from me, they haven’t. They’ll lose this election big time, by about 6%.
They’re comatose, hoping the PL will somehow go away and let the PN win the election ( bang head against wall). It’s so frustrating – there won’t be another ‘victory snatched from the jaws of defeat’ this time.
There will be a defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. Two victories, to be precise: 1987 and 2003.
PN should have neutralised the Mintoffian rot after 1987, but it surrendered unilaterally in the name of some misguided principle of Christian forgiveness and reconciliation.
Again, it treated 2003 like just another election in a normal European country. It appointed some of the most rabid anti-EU Laburisti to the government’s most sensitive posts.
But Malta was never normal.
Ten years down the line, we have students tearing the EU flag, and Mintoffian, anti-European Labour on the brink of the biggest electoral victory since 1972. That’s where appeasement gets you.
[Daphne – 1971 (not 72) wasn’t a big electoral victory at all.]
Baxxter, don’t despair, it’s been so many years since this prosperous, now complacent rock has experienced prolonged, incompetent Labour rule.
A wake up call to the ungrateful unwashed is required. Sad, but inevitable.
What does it mean to be on loan on condition he can return any time he wishes?
360m per day is the total cost of expenditure on oil last year I believe.
So he took that amount, and assumed its all corruption. X’nies.
And as the saying goes, assumption is the mother of all f*** ups.
What this post implies is that it is being taken for granted that illegal commissions were paid. But they are not that high after all.
Sort of, we should an eye and get on with it. Well, let’s see the people’s verdict on March 9. Pity that lejboristi are allowed to vote though, right?
[Daphne – NO. What it SAYS, rather than implies, is that the Labour Party’s CEO 1. can’t use a calculator, 2. doesn’t know the population of Malta; 3. can’t do simple maths; 4. can’t pick out an absurd figure simply by looking at it, 5. deliberately manipulates the ignorant or is totally ignorant himself.]
Joseph thinks a simple pipeline running Malta Sicily will cost 700 million.
He doesn’t distinguish between two options, a simple run or, on a longer term, the same pipeline integrating a terminal later on.
Which, it has to be clarified, doesn’t necessarily preclude having the pipeline first.
I bet he’s relying on Konrad for his criticism. Why do these people work consistently against the interests of the country?
Kemm tidhol ghalihom sew.
Tiehu gost tisawwat mid-dehra.
What about the millions chanelled by the MLP to the GWU via the Cargo Handling Co Ltd for doing absolutely nothing.
One two is two , two twos are four , two threes are six , two fours are eight, no wonder they cannot calculate anything not even totting up their election programme costings.
Chris Fearne confirmed they’ll resort to companies specialised in providing substitute medicine within 48hrs.
You name it, any quantity, they’ll deliver.
Why keep the current system then? It pays to go for this altogether, no disgruntled bidders.
Confidential memo of understanding, enhanced trade relations with China to the fore.
U l-bambin biss jkun jaf il-pirmli tas-substitute medicines xi jkun fihom. Mhux hekk.
L-aqwa li n-nies inbellghulhom, literalment u figuratament. It is the Malta Labour Party way under whichever guise or name the party presents itself.
I’ve had works managers who’d set off on a task with their halli f’idejja.
Sunday afternoons spent quelling enraged Germans.
Why is he so privileged that he was not asked to resign from Air Malta in order to take his new job as CEO of the MLP? I am sure this privilege wouldn’t be extended to anyone else, in particular a Nationalist. Otherwise Super One would have been on the case.
Is James Piscopo another untouchable and privileged like Robert Abela?
Since we are talking math. The Ministry of Finance issued a statements that the gas pipeline will probably cost € 290 million.
Labours energy proposal (using their calculations) will cost around € 400 million not including the 3 LNG tankers which would probably cost more than the pipeline itself. Therefore, why on earth are we going for a more expensive project? Do they know how to use a calculator at Mile End?
To your first question: So that Joseph Muscat can become prime minister before what is left of his hair falls out.
To your second question: As evidenced by their calculations regarding savings in energy costs, No.
A million Euro per day is approximately the amount of oil consumed each day. If almost a million per day of that is going to these illegal commissions then if we manage to avoid the commissions we should be getting the oil free of charge.
See there, I’ve sorted out the energy problem.
Ustja, x’cuc hu Konrad.
I suspect that to be ‘in’ with the Labour Party you must check (leave) your brain at the door.
Beefless Leader.
It is small wonder Air Malta got itself in the mess it did.
At least the national airline had the good sense to allow this jerk Piscopo to join the PL skip.
The airline would be better off paying him his salary whilst encouraging him to stick to mile-end forever.
Fearless Leader? Who on Earth gave him that mug?
Mr. Earl Grey personally, perhaps?
And no one checked…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless_Leader
Fearless Leader is a fictional character and the principal antagonist in the 1959–1964 animated television series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, both shows often collectively referred to as Rocky and Bullwinkle. He is voiced by Bill Scott.
Character overview
Fearless Leader is the dictator of the fictional country Pottsylvania, and the employer of the inept government agents Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. He could always be found in his underground hideout, “Central Control.” However, it seems evident that he did answer to one man himself: the diminutive Mr. Big. Mr. Big appears in two storylines of the series, “Upsidaisium” and “Metal Munching Moon Mice.”
This is the Enemy (Koehler/Ancona, 1942): possible basis for character appearance.
As expected from his given position and name, Fearless Leader is a strict, ruthless character, and often harshly criticizes the incompetence of his main minion Boris. He is usually shown with a long scar on his cheek. He is distrustful of his own government employees, and is known to carry the Pottsylvania treasury with him wherever he goes. Although Pottsylvania’s chief spies are given ersatz Russian accents, Fearless Leader’s accent seems more in keeping with the German stereotype. In fact, his sharply-angled features closely resemble those from an anti-Nazi propaganda poster circulated during World War II. He uses some German such as “Achtung” and “Schweinhund.” Thus, it has also been conjectured[by whom?] that he was modeled after Nazi Major Strasser in the 1942 movie “Casablanca”.
[edit]In other media
Fearless Leader appears in two live-action films: he is portrayed by Christopher Neame in Boris and Natasha: The Movie (1992) and by Robert De Niro in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000).
Fearless Leader was also the background picture seen hanging on the wall in the old newspaper cartoon, “Grin and Bear It” by Lichty, whenever the Kremlin or politburo was being lampooned.
In Jamie Gilson’s book 4B Goes Wild, the strict, no-nonsense headmistress of the elementary school is called that behind her back. When the protagonist, Hobie Hanson, wins a lunch date with the headmistress in a raffle, his friends tease him as to “When are you going to eat with Fearless Leader?”