And now: mass emailing of civil servants with a political message from Kurt Farrugia
Kurt Farrugia (right) with puppet-master Keith Schembri and his puppet Joseph Muscat
Everybody who is on the public sector payroll and has an @gov.mt email address has received the following email from Kurt Farrugia through the Department of Information:
From: Information Release at DOI [mailto:information-release.doi@gov.mt]
Sent: Fri 21-Jun-13 6:33 PM
Subject: Delivering Together
The government has now passed the 100 day mark and I want to thank you for your hard work. A good start has been made implementing policies but a great deal remains to be done. A change in government brings new ways of working and new ambitions but together we are making progress and delivering for the people.
The nation’s finances are being brought under control and new investors sought. The energy plan is progressing well with the government on track to reduce utility tariffs. Problems in the justice and health sectors are being tackled. And education has been made a priority, with investment in many areas from scholarships to school building repairs. A Civil Unions Act will pass into law by the end of the year and anti-corruption measures are progressing well.
The government is mindful that it is here to serve the people and stay close to them. Thank you again for helping to implement the government’s agenda. When we work as a team there is so much we can achieve.
Please find PM’s message to the Nation:
http://gov.mt/en/Pages/PM%20message%20to%20Nation%20-%20June%202013/Pm-Message-to-Nation.aspx
Kurt Farrugia
Head Government Communication
Please send us your feedback on opm@gov.mt
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Kollox fuq ir-rubini ghaddej.
“Please send us your feedback”
Yes, right. As if anyone other than lackeys is going to tell them what they think.
Maybe Kurt will receive a reply from michelle.c.muscat@gov.mt One hopes her personal assistant knows how to craft a suitable reply.
Socialist triumphalism at its best.
I wish I had an @gov.mt address.
I could refer them to the reply given in the UK case Arkell v. Pressdram (1971).
I’m currently engaged in Ugandan discussions, or I’d forward the reply myself.
All is rosy in The Republic of Anchuria?
One of Muscat’s first tasks was to force permanent secretaries out of their posts.
Then we were treated to several pseudo-news stories about the supposed ransacking of government offices and how il-gvern precedenti didn’t provide a proper handover to josephmuscatdotcom
Did Mr Farrugia send his cheery email to those former permanent secretaries? Or did he strike them off the Taghna Lkoll list?
He just lost another one. The day Leo was visiting, tsk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jse5aL7m9Xg
This crap of calling the electorate ‘the people’ is really starting to bug me. It reeks of Communist China or the dictatorial regime of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
If they had an ounce of decor and proper education, they would state that a Government is there to serve the nation, or, at the very least, its people.
Delivering Together.
In other words, Flimkien Kollox Possibli.
I can picture the government employees collectively reading this, smiling knowingly and then going back to their morning ‘café u pastizz’.
Self praise is no recommendation, Mr Farrugia.
Yes and was horrified with it. Shouldn’t the @gov.mt email be used only for work purposes?
@Alexander Ball
That was hilarious, mate! I couldn’t stop laughing. I bet, if he got such a reply, he would go running to his pal joey, kicking up a fuss. What a plonker.
[Daphne – http://mattwpbs.com/2009/08/10/i-refer-you-to-the-reply-given-in-arkell-vs-pressdram-1971 ]
I have just deleted that message. I don’t read emails sent by coconuts.
Goebbels
I don’t have a gov.mt address. But maybe Kurt can still get an idea of my feedback.
Up yours, Kurt.
Iktar ma jghaddi z-zmien iktar qed inhoss li gejjin bhan-North Korea jew Venezuela.
Brian Montebello’s feedback to Kurt Farrugia: ” I resign with immediate effect from my post of permanent secretary with the Ministry of the Environment. Kemm kont ahjar meta kont aghar.”
Maybe we should all send our feedback to opm@gov.mt
It would be useful for him to receive a few truthful replies.
We do give them a lot of feedback on this blog, free of charge, already don’t we?
Finding new investors? Have we suddenly become a listed entity in need of a bailout?