Comment of the week
Brigadier Martin Xuereb, whose “personal loyalty” to Manuel Mallia was celebrated in no less than a government press release.
Posted by H. P. Baxxter (who else):
There’s another big story behind the big story, as we’ve come to expect from this shambles of corrupt shit we call the Labour Government.
Martin Xuereb will be sent to Brussels. To do what, we haven’t been told.
But I assume it will more or less be a continuation of his 1996 job as defence attaché and representative to the Partnership Coordination Cell of the Partnership for Peace.
Except back then he was a Captain. Now he’s a Brigadier and former AFM Commander. It’s like sending the CEO back to the ground floor as tea-boy.
But there’s more. For all its Mintoffian bluster on the evils of PfP and Nato, Labour is sending the Armed Forces’ top man to liaise with PfP. And, I assume, as EU Military Committee Representative.
KMB eat your heart out. Privitera eat your heart out. Joseph Muscat eat your heart out.
Unless of course this is our way of going out in style, with the big fireworks and all. First we send the top brass then we withdraw, again, from PfP. Paving the way for withdrawal from the EU.
And didn’t Labour promise to withdraw Malta from the EU Military Committee the moment it was elected?
I don’t expect any of our journalists to ask what Xuereb’s job will be, because they are all such confounded mouth-breathing morons.
On Xuereb, one would usually say something about lions led by donkeys. Except in the AFM it’s Mintoffians and bigoted racist Right-Wingers led by brown-nosing donkeys. If the rank and file are unhappy about the machinations in the AFM, they have only themselves to blame. The AFM was behind Labour, to a man.
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Baxxter, let us see how long it will be before the Army (which has already been taken over by the Malta Labour Party) is merged with the Cabinet to create one Supreme Command under the Generalissimo Joseph Muscat.
Think of Pyong Yang.
And then think about the young Great Leader of the Workers Party, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Government (formerly known as the Cabinet of Ministers in the first republic), and Commander in Chief of the second republic known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Malta.
So, the brigadier is posted to Brussels, and the former Director of Defence, see the link below, is appointed Malta Ambassador to Italy.
Something just doesn’t seen right.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/please-read-this
There’s only one thing wrong. We have a Labour government.
Yepp, there is something not right.
The Prime Minister has been blabbering about how Malta’s place in Europe is natural and that we now will be thinking globally – Africa, Asia, well, you know, thinking like China.
So I am slightly surpised that the Brigadier will be returning to Brussels. Thought he would be posted somewhere further afield, more “global,” like Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Pyong Yang maybe.
With some more creativity, they could even give him the status of Ambassador, reporting directly to Dr. Mario Vella at Malta Enterprise.
What Baxxter is missing is that diplomatic postings get a huge pay packet. Much larger than an AFM commander. So Xuereb must have graciously accepted resigning for a much better salary with a lot less stress.
The same goes for Mrs Konrad Mizzi. Anyone who believes she will be earning 33K is a fool. It’s 33K which is a taxable salary + the diplomatic allowances of an ambassador which are tax free.
I don’t have access to the specific details of the package but it would be comparable to that of Richard Cachia Caruana, which only serves to highlight further the utterly dishonourable behaviour and hypocrisy of the very party which created so much havoc about that. The Labour Party had ranted until it was blue in the face.
Again this is a case of the PN and press all being soundly asleep while Labour rides roughshod over Malta.
Let us refresh the memory of anyone who drinketh from the national cup of Kool-Aid.
Once upon a time, a Maltese government envoy with the rank of ambassador was subjected to trial by the Labour Party and its little friend JPO, and subjected to a parliamentary vote, because:
1) he had a huge salary plus perks (so they said, but now Shanghai is awfully expensive);
2) he negotiated with foreign powers without consulting the Maltese parliament (so they said, but now Malta needs a top-secret negotiator with China);
3) he worked directly with the Office of the Prime Minister, bypassing parliament (so they said, but now the envoy to China will report directly to the PM);
4) he was given his position without a public call for applications (so they said, but now envoys are political appointees, headhunted on purpose).
Mrs Konrad Mizzi, of course, is none of this. And I am Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.