Joseph Muscat: says he wants to sell passports to “attract talent” and then sells them for money, not talent
Mark Anthony Sammut is exceptionally good on this point, and I suggest you read his full blog-post (link below), but here is the bit that struck me most.
———–
The Government’s citizenship programme is aimed at attracting talent to Malta, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said today.
Speaking in London at The Malta Individual Investor Programme, the Prime Minister said the Government’s focus was on the attraction of extremely highly talented and networked people from around the world by offering them the possibility of sharing the Maltese and European journey.
Here the root of our Prime Minister’s amorality is made clear: for him, talented and merited people are networked people with money. For our Prime Minister – material wealth and money makes you a talented person.
And this is precisely the root of this government’s amoral behaviour. This is why our Prime Minister and his wife saw nothing wrong in befriending and conspiring with millionaire corrupt fraudster Shiv Nair. This is why the Prime Minister sees nothing wrong with leasing his own car to government. This is why the Prime Minister sees nothing wrong in employing his own wife and other Minister’s wives. This is why the Prime Minister sees nothing wrong in employing MPs themselves as consultants. This is why the Prime Minister sees nothing wrong with members of Cabinet retaining their private practice. This is why the Prime Minister sees nothing wrong in Ministers lying in their declaration of assets.
For our Prime Minister, these are just ways in which his MPs are making more money, and by making more money, he believes they are becoming more talented and merited.
22 Comments Comment
Leave a Comment
http://markanthonysammut.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-root-of-our-prime-ministers.html
Is this the kind of talent Muscat would like to attract to Malta?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483313/Chinese-boy-commits-suicide-teachers-orders.html
Be careful of judging these horrendous incidents by your Western cultural mindset.
Chinese people see this incident this exactly the same way.
La Redoute, that is not in dispute.
I did not appreciate the mockery I interpreted in the statement by M. The story has nothing to do with the “talent” that Muscat is trying to attract. As you said, the Chinese value life and family.
Also, aside from the tragic side to it, there is a possible cultural albeit completely alien explanation – the possibility that this youth jumped so as not to lose face given the significantly important role of a teacher in China (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24381946).
Spot on. X’misthija ta’ gvern.
“He who dies with the most toys wins” – substitute toys with money and it’s the Labour government and posse as we now know them.
It’s why Muscat will take cash from those whose identity we won’t be allowed to know and refuse others the right to apply for refugee status.
Do Labour voters really believe there won’t be first and second class citizenship once this scheme’s in place?
Mistra and its 700+ apartments starts to make sense.
There is Kuwaiti investment in the Mistra project. I wonder
Those particular Kuwaitis don’t need a Maltese passport. It’s the ones who are nameless and faceless that you should be worried about, like Gaddafi’s henchmen, Central Asian profiteers, and moneyed gangsters of all stripes.
Joseph Muscat’s speech in London was full of empty clichés and full of discordant notes to which there is no harmony.
Noise, but no substance.
Good old Joey. I heard he had them rolling in the aisles with his wonderful ‘English humour’. Some of them thought he was the warm-up guy for the proper Maltese PM apparently.
“Highly talented and networked people from around the world” do not need phoney passports.
It’s shady fraudsters like Muscat’s and Dalli’s friends who do.
Muscat is doing what Muscat does best: selling a pipedream via a teleprompter.
Beautiful comment.
An analysis that should be taken on board by the intellectuals who have supported Joseph Muscat and worked hard to present him to the Maltese electorate as the epitome of essential and positive change.
So Emmanuel Mallia must be very talented. Because he has a lot of cash.
Does he honestly think that the kind of people who are going to be buying a Maltese passport have any interest in setting up in Malta or lending their apparent ‘intelligence’ for the good of the Maltese? Is he THAT stupid? The only reason they would go down this route is that it allows them to continue live permanently in London and travel freely to the USA.
And what do you think the UK and US government will have to say about this when the shit hits the fan and someone who enters their country with a Maltese ‘bought’ passport causes some problems later down the line?
Moneytocracy?
If I won the grand lottery tonight would Joe classify me as talented?
Joseph Muscat says he wants to sell Maltese passports to talented individuals, but he doesn’t want to publicise the names of those individuals.
How exactly are we going to benefit from the association of Malta’s name with the name of talented persons if their identity is not disclosed?
By the end of this five year legislature the Labour Party is going to be so poor, all it will have to boast about is money and corruption.
What a difference from the previous 25 years of PN leadership. The only corruption and shame they had to endure is now lying in the Labour Party skip.