UNBELIEVABLE – WHAT A COUPLE OF DANGEROUS CLOWNS
I see that Times of Malta has taken up this website’s suggestion (without acknowledging where they got the information, as usual, which is terribly uncivil) and made enquiries as to why Silvio Scerri’s personal BMW is suddenly wearing the GM plates which are the preserve of government ministers.
And it reports this morning:
National Security Minister Manuel Mallia how borrowed the personal car of his Chief of Staff to cut costs, Times of Malta.
The minister’s official licence plates, GM14, were seen fastened to Silvio Scerri’s silver BMW when it was parked in the ministerial bay this week.
A ministry spokeswoman confirmed that the car belonged to Mr Scerri and said he is not being recompensed while it is used by the minister.
The lease on Dr Mallia’s official government car, a dark blue BMW saloon, was signed during the previous administration and has not been renewed or replaced so far.
There are so many things WRONG with this that I hardly know where to begin. You simply can NOT have an employee in a minister’s private secretariat lending his private car to his employer, the state, still less so lending it directly to the minister.
Where are the boundaries here? There are non-existent. How do you discipline the man who is lending you his car? Forget Manuel Mallia – he’s the defence lawyer to Malta’s worst criminals and has no sense of right and wrong but only of what is legal and what is illegal. How can the government tolerate a situation where its employees trade in favours and lend their own cars to ministers free of charge, for official use?
A minister borrowing his head of secretariat’s car to save money? COME ON. Who are these two dangerous clowns kidding? They are incapable of separating personal business from government business. Their track record so far has been just plain frightening. By the time the five years are up, heaven alone knows where we’ll be with this kind of thing going on.
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This is what one gets when one elects amateurs to run one’s country.
Pity that the rest must share the burden.
Explains parking it in a bay reserved for residents then.
It’s Mallia car now, perfectly legal.
Mela dawn hasbunha boloh?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-09-02/news/helga-ellul-playtime-is-over-2479849474/
Cut costs? Why are we hearing so much about cost cutting? What is the PL saving up for exactly? And where else are costs going to be cut from I wonder?
They are saving up for their retirement.
The PL is cost-cutting to make up for the Eur8 million or so extra in salaries in the government cabinet, boards, commissions, etc.
It is really great, rewarding diehard Labourites and soft-soapers with the Maltese taxpayer’s money.
What if Dr Mallia did all his work on foot? It would have been cost cutting and weight cutting.
If Manuel Mallia really wanted to save money, he should have used some of his Eur500,000 cash to buy a car and donate it to the state for his own use.
Or he can use his own car, a Porsche.
What? Seeing that he had €500,000 in loose change at the back of the sofa, couldn’t Dr Mallia hire his own car instead of going with a begging bowl to his employee?
They should have used the environment as a reason too: car pooling.
Kif ma jisthux.
If the official version is true, which I do not believe it is, then Silvio Scerri has placed himself in an exceptional position of power over his Minister; a very high price to pay for borrowing a car – even if it happens to be a BMW.
Saving money by borrowing an employee’s car, instead of getting rid of that employee in the first place and saving on his salary.
Saving money by borrowing an employee’s car, instead of cutting down the cabinet to a decent size and saving all those salaries and overheads.
Silvio Scerri might not be getting anything ‘directly’ but can anyone check if the car is being leased by the Ministry from his own company, ‘Nexos Lighting Limited’?
If that is the case, it would be even more shocking.
Hokkli dahri u nhokklok dahrek.
Just like when they said that JDALLIBA and his daughter are working for free. The people who need to wake up and smell the coffee are the Maltese electorate, for goodness sake!
What will Silvio be lending the minister next? His girlfriend?
Dawn bis-serjeta’ hasbuna illi sejrin nemmnu dawn il-kretinati? (to use Mallia’s verbose language).
U jhalluna. (my language).
Isn’t it illegal for a car’s plates to be covered by another set?
They invented a scheme how to get money from the state for their cars in these five years.
Why are you assuming Times of Malta got the story from you?
[Daphne- Oh give a wild guess. Perhaps because they read it here first last Monday? http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/09/zer-088-silvio-scerris-private-car-has-suddenly-become-a-government-car/
And perhaps because they read a helpful suggestion to the press here again yesterday?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/09/zer-088-aka-gm14/
What you SHOULD be asking is why the story doesn’t mention that the information was picked up from this site. I can answer that, too, if you like: the report was written by Ivan Camilleri, who I outed publicly as somebody who didn’t vote because his wife didn’t get the job she wanted and as a result, he wanted the Nationalist Party to lose the election so that he could ‘pay back’ the individuals he decided were responsible for her not getting that job. Insufferable twerp. Now he’s hanging round Simon Busuttil’s underpants, no doubt giving him plenty of lousy advice and storing up ammo for when he next needs to be a snake in the grass.]
How unbelievably amateurish. Who are they out to impress with these silly cost-reducing measures that are anything but.
The deficit will not be reduced through the loaning of privately-owned vehicles to the government nor by holding MCSD meetings at the minister’s office instead of at a hotel. Mintoffian thinking, that’s what this is.
Hawn virus jismu Volontarjatus. Bdewh ic-Cinizi, komplieh J DalliBA u t-tifla tieghu, u issa qabadhom Mallia u Scerri.
Kemm ghandhom qalbom tajba.
First they increase their labour costs by Eur6 million, then they can’t afford a car lease.
Government cars are not insured. Is Silvio Scerri’s?