Muscat will create another Russia here on this rock. With a few oligarchs dictating to the rest. It’s clear that a handful of oligarchs are pulling the strings behind the scenes. Sant, Vella, Vella Bonnici and Muscat are their tools.

Labour is incapable of thinking long-term. They have always gone for the fast buck and to hell with the consequences.

Mintoff was that way and his idolator Muscat is cut from the same cloth. Some would call them used car salesmen but that would be unfair on the salesmen.

Damn, I forgot that other towering intellect Mario Vella. Thanks for reminding me. How he and “Edward” must have toasted their brilliant plan.

Not that anything I say now can make a difference; it’s just academic now. But just for the record, I think the closest parallel, in terms of fucked up policies and their consequences, is Russia.

When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, its economic metrics were pretty good. Government debt was negligible, personal debt non-existen, the budget was under control, and the country was rich in evert sort of resource, with the strongest industrial base round those parts. Just to give a comparison we all know, China was still firmly Third World at the time.

But on man by the name of Boris Yeltsin started selling off national industries and corporations at risible prices to any private buyer. The reaction of the IMF and the international markets was immediate. Here’s a country on its last legs. Government bonds were made worthless, the IMF imposed impossible rules and started dictating privatisation policies which further compounded the problem, and the rest is history.

It took them twenty years to recover from the disaster. Ask any Russian – they abhor Yeltsin to a man. And they abhor his mentor Gorbachev too. To us outsiders it looks different.

A tiny number of Russians became disgustingly rich on the backs of their fellow countrymen, giving rise to the infamous Russian oligarch stereotype.

Have a look at this.

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-11-14/news/live-energy-ministrys-budget-being-debated-3184132097/

It’s November and they’re still silent. The reluctance to release any detail is blatant.

Either these are horrific or worse, inexistent. They built the whole economic content of the campaign around this single proposal.

Now that he’s got international observers watching, closely, he has to provide the answers. And those tend not to wave PL scarves.

Everybody can buy a Maltese passport.

No. We do not ‘adapt’ to the situation. We oppose it and fight it off.

Muscat was Mario Vella’s protege’, hence the fulsome praise in the PhD thesis that carries Muscat’s name.

But a lot of people, even those who voted PN are lamenting that they were hard done by.

They’ve been moaning before the elections – mind you, some of them have a very good reason to – but no individual need can overshadow what was achieved through several PN governments, achievements that took years of effort and toil.

Now this cheating PM, who wasn’t at all “transparent” about certain plans for the future is dismantling everything in a few months.

Shame on those who voted for him. They couldn’t see beyond their noses.