Comments on: Snouts in the trough update: Muscat’s cabinet is 71% more expensive than Gonzi’s and will cost Eur32 million MORE over five years. So much for their four-year hysteria about “hames mitt ewro”.

By: albona

albona — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:25:59 +0000

They are populists. They just played on the ignorance of the average voter.

Their policy on pay being relative to attendance is another populist measure as it plays on people’s ignorantly held belief that all a minister or MP does is sit in parliament and argue, not realising of course that this accounts for a mere fraction of their time.

The PL would prefer for ministers to have that slight incentive/necessity to earn their wage by illegal means instead of just paying them a wage that fits the profile; mind you even €500 would only have been a low raise.

By: albona

albona — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:21:20 +0000

In reply to Tony Formosa. There is no library big enough for them all. Daphne save the space.

By: verita

verita — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:33:18 +0000

They can’t make out what’s a hundred, a thousand, a million or a billion. They’re only zeros

By: jbald

jbald — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:22:13 +0000

That’s why he’s selling passports now, to make up for it

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:10:10 +0000

And that does not include the cost of the BIG TOP where the clowns have been performing during the past two weeks, preaching to the converted.

By: P Shaw

P Shaw — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:40:14 +0000

In reply to Manuel. The Times wanted to touch that clock as well

By: just me

just me — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:17:25 +0000

500 euros a week is equivalent to 26,000 euros a year. There were eight ministers in the Gonzi cabinet, so that means 208,000 euros a year. And 1,664,000 euros over five years, as compared to the additional 32 million euros for Muscat’s cabinet.

By: Gian

Gian — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:02:34 +0000

Peress illi Joseph Muscat qabel l-elezzjoni wieghed illi mhux ser izid il-pagi tal-ministri tieghu, lest issa iwieghed li jrodd lura dawn il-Eur32 miljun li hadu ‘minn wara dahar il-poplu’?

By: mm

mm — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:40:01 +0000

In reply to canon.

It still doesn’t mean anything for most people for 3 reasons:

a) People have faith in Joseph Muscat (sic)

b) Joseph Muscat will only issue salary proportionally to their attendance in parliament (let wait to see it in action)

c) People have faith in Joseph Muscat (lol)

By: Rumplestiltskin

Rumplestiltskin — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:14:18 +0000

And they had the gall to make the most obscene song and dance about a €500 Euro raise for Ministers who were handling more than twice the workload that this lot have. Yet the Labour sheep keep on nodding their heads and baaing.