Evarist Bartolo once whined that contracts signed by the PN government shouldn’t bind a Labour one, putting ‘lejlet l-elezzjoni’ to justify his words.

He’s particularly spiteful when it comes to Arriva’s contract and Palumbo’s agreement, employees actually protesting outside its gates when L-Orizzont took on the crusade.

He spent five years targetting BWSC, denigrating it’s conversion to gas capability, now the key element in their gas strategy.

His pet hate however, is the MFSA. Imagine.

Why do you ask? Armier, hunters, bus drivers, drydocks.

One of the things Labour’s campaign emphasized was minimal capital expenditure over five years. In fact it was barely a year’s equivalent, EU funds awol. Obviously missed by our press.

This government will cost us twice as much as GonziPN. It’s official. And if it can cost twice why not double that?

In other words, recurrent expenditure. He’ll pester his PSE to implement their idiotic ‘work’ subsidy proposal to avoid bailout.

And sell passports.

Exactly.

Lots of grubby hands to lay on that superyacht thingy they got going. Watch Dock 1 and Marsa Shipbuilding as well.

What everyone seems to miss is Evarist being minister in charge of ‘work’, a convinced Marxist who doesn’t give me the impression he’s exactly enamoured of entrepreneurship.

And if ST’s sending the usual pre-budget message, they’ll say no problem in parliament.

Signed agreements count for zilch with these individuals. Which is why ST’s nervous about Scicluna’s talk of surprises and indirect taxation and worse, the reluctance to issue details to which commitment would be a given.

Where does anyone stand with this administration? Fact is FDI figures are the real scandal, they haven’t dipped, they’re literally missing.

Lawrence Gonzi did what he had to do, remove two of the worst burdens, Malta drydocks and the old buses. He was on his way to transform Enemalta. Trust Labour to bring it all back.

Meantime unemployment’s up by 11%, and no one gives a damn. Except the PN, which is negative.

http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=MG_AGO_20131025

But that’s it really, WERE partners in Arriva Malta.

When they pulled out it was taken as a given what the intention was.

Muscat can forget FDI if this goes through.

NOW you notice it? That’s been going on for ages, including way back under the Nationalist administration. The Chinese garden was built and then refurbished using Chinese labour.

I don’t mean be even-handed with the two parties, but many of the disgusting policies of Labour have their roots as PN policies.