The Labour Party’s electoral pledge on not working with those who are blacklisted
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October 3, 2013 at 11:45pm
Read it here: PL Electoral Programme.pdf
So…Shiv Nair is automatically disqualified from bidding for Malta government contracts (if the PM is sticking to his word), but there’s nothing in there which says he can’t advise the government on those contracts. That’s called the Labour thought process.
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Is anyone watching Porta a Porta? Lampedusa fisherman and yachtsmen going out at night to save lives.
Makes one proud to feel human, these Italians really show the way.
I am disgusted by our attitude in Malta and the indifference we show.
I agree completely. While we were living through the “push back” debacle, when another boatload of immigrants arrived at Lampedusa, a reporter asked one of those involved in the rescue operation, how he felt about it all.
The answer “I feel proud that I am helping to rescue these people”.
Not as far as I know. There was an attempt to “throw back” refugees using AirMalta quickiy abandoned as soon as he was informed that his proposal was illegal.
To my knowledge, there never was a similar incident near Malta’s shore that need our yachtsmen and fishermen to go out on a mass rescue attempt to save immigrants in imminent danger of drowning. There were many instances where the AFM did that job at greater distance from Malta and which they did competently and without fanfare.
And now they’re following orders to push people back at sea.
And what about the blacklisted Chinese company which is supposed to assemble PV panels in Malta?
As is the case with implementation of ‘meritocracy’ which exclusively favours Labourites, ‘blacklisting’ in the Labour context refers to non-Labourites. That much should have become amply clear by now.
There is still time for the Labour government to keep its electoral pledge not to work with those who are blacklisted now that its nose has been rubbed into the stinking dirty news. But I won’t be holding my breath until that happens (if it ever does happen).