ZER 088 – Silvio Scerri’s private car – has suddenly become a minister’s car
Silvio Scerri’s personal car, which used to carry ZER 088 plates, photographed parked in its usual spot outside the Police, Army and Films Ministry this morning.
The car with its original plates.
Silvio Scerri (we all know who he is now), Manuel Mallia’s head of secretariat and owner of a lighting business the running of which he has delegated to a member of the Police Board, has either sold his personal car to the government or has through some other method mysteriously acquired government plates for it.
Sorry, that would be MINISTER’S plates. GM plates are reserved only for the official cars used by cabinet ministers.
ZER 088 is now carrying GM plates. Exactly what does this mean? That Silvio Scerri has made himself a minister? That his private car is now the official vehicle of his minister (who has one of his own)?
It is bad enough already that he has a chauffeur – he had one when his plates were ZER 088 too – which no head of secretariat ever had under any Nationalist government.
Chauffeurs and GM plates for heads of secretariat; whatever next. They’re really making the most of it, aren’t they. Their excitement at being at the trough is palpable.
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Those GM plates are attached on top of the private plates using cable ties.
He’s ‘leasing’ his own car to himself, at the expense of the taxpayer.
If Joseph can, why shouldn’t he?
Unlikely. Why would he keep his old number plates if by returning them he would not pay any road licence and insurance?
Where the hell is the Nationalist Party and its media?
Is Daphne the only one wide awake?
They’re busy too – simply too many stories to keep up.
Anton Refalo hatched another villa this week.
And if I am not mistaken that villa had trouble because same was built without MEPA permit. At sometime, an enforcement order was issued.
Troy, I agree with you 100%.
It is very evident that the klikka Laburista is making as much personal gain as humanly possible.
Grab, grab, grab before time runs out.
And Edward Scicluna tells us that he wants to cut costs.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130902/local/budget-consultation-kicks-off.484542
Hypocites.
Those plates appeared to be clipped onto the original licence plates.
Isn’t that a case of having false licence marks on one’s car?
I thought that was a criminal offence, especially if they are official government plates.
Is this the cost cutting policy which will be applied in the forthcoming budget? First we had the euro 6 million per year to fund the jobs of the ex Super One Staff, family members, billboard faces,etc, now we have to fund the private cars turned official.
Basta qed jghidu li sejrin nixtru zejt u gass bi prezz specjali mill-L:ibya. Issa naraw kemm sejjer jorhsu dawnj il-prodotti ghall-konsumatur sakemm ma jghamlux bhal Mintoff immorru jbieghuh bil-market price.
The Nationalist Party and its absent leader, Simon Busuttil, are failing Malta in a very big way. It is the constitutional role of the opposition to hold the government to task.
“To scrutinise, to evaluate, to challenge and to hold the government accountable for its actions, in the interest of creating a fair balance of power that does not infringe on the democratic processes and safeguards”, as the House of Lords defined the role of the opposition many years ago.
There are so many “minor infringements” that they are making a collective “big scandal”. Yet the opposition is dormant. The big guns are asleep. And the roughshod march of government on collective freedom continues unabated.
History reserves nothing but utter contempt for appeasers. Eddie Fenech Adami is such a political giant in Malta because he provided a strong opposition to government.
Every single one abuse, every single one misdeed, every single one offence, every single one frame-up, every single one undeserved promotion or nomination, every single one infringement, every single bending of the rules, is ONE TOO MANY and will embolden the offender. If one gets away with an irregularity, then one will try for a bigger irregularity next time. That is human nature in its perverse form.
The nationalist grassroots and the nationalist voters should hold their representatives to account and demand they either speak up or shut up and slink away, as the cowards and useless waste of space that they are.
Mrs. Caruana Galizia is doing far more then they are collectively to hold the government to task, but she does not enjoy the national podium that they (the Opposition MPs) do. What she says isn’t widely reported by the local media. But if Simon Busuttil (Simon who?) does, then he has a far better chance of exposure.
The post of leader of the opposition isn’t to foment national reconciliation or to be nice, co-operative, helpful and positive to government. That is the role of government. The role of the opposition is quite the opposite (opposition, hint anyone?) – it is to be inquisitive, challenging and opposite to government policies that it believes are not in the interest of the country.
If the opposition acquiesces and “goes along” with government that it is spectacularly failing to fulfil the role it is paid for by taxpayers. In that case, they are not fulfilling their role and should be held to task and asked to move out and give their places up to people with gall.
Why use GM plates on a car?
So that the police do not stop you by mistake.
In case of trouble, you will actually be escorted out of the problem area, whatever it is and whatever reason you ended up there.
NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
And our economical Minister is trying to make a cost cutting exercise.
Whoever coined the phrase ” ahleb Guz ” must have had this in mind.
Why is il-Guy using a car without the GM plates and driving it himself? He usually parks near the Post Office in Castille Square.
Had such a thing happened before 9th March, all hell would have broken loose on the Labour-owned and Labour-leaning media.
Today we have to consider ourselves lucky that we came to know about this from just one website.
So true – just look at the race between all the wannabees or old, decrepit wannabees to get into PBS television and radio.
Hmm, one would think that this is somewhat contradictory to Scicluna’s comment today that in cost cutting the government will be taking a top down approach, as it is more efficient, contrary to the previous government that took a bottom up approach.
Unless that means that they’ll spend everything on the few at the top and have nothing for the mutitudes at the bottom? You know it’s more efficient to write one big cheque than a thousand small ones.
Thank you Daphne for continuing to bring this government’s obscenities to light. I am so disheartened to see that the general press AND the PN do nothing of the sort.
Speaking for myself I am totally dependent on your blog to find out all about the murky activities of this pittance of a government.