The government doesn’t have an electoral mandate to sell passports
Muscat and his Labour Party are liars. Some of us knew that starting years ago. Others discovered it in the electoral campaign. The more easily gulled are discovering it now, and those who are truly beyond redemption – the sort who might believe a man who tells them, “Lipstick on my collar? My (short) aunt slipped while brushing dandruff off my shoulder” – still think he’s genuine.
That’s right, a genuine liar, all told.
If they weren’t a bunch of liars they would have included, in their much-vaunted electoral programme/rowtmepp kostid u konkret – their plans to sell Maltese passports. They knew they were going to do it. They had clearly already factored it in as a source of revenue and even promised passports to backers and associates. But they DELIBERATELY chose not to tell us.
Why?
Because then they’d have been busted. Or rather, they’d have busted themselves. Announcing, at any point in the electoral campaign, that they planned to sell Maltese passports for cash would have put a rocket right through their talk of civil unions, Malta Taghna Lkoll, power stations and electricity bills, and…why did people elect them exactly? I think we’ve forgotten already.
Concealing from the electorate their plans to sell passports was an act of very deliberate and considered deception. That in itself tells you that the Labour Party KNEW that it would go down like a lead balloon, that people would absolutely despise the idea and that it would have made many reconsider their decision to vote for them, had they known at the time.
So all of Labour’s posturing right now about how negative the Opposition is to run this down, how it hasn’t learned its lesson, blah blah blah, is total disingenuous bollocks.
Labour knows it’s a lousy, vote-losing idea and that’s why it didn’t stick it in its electoral manifesto or boast about it in the electoral campaign. That’s why it kept its plans to sell passports hidden from us until we’d voted for them, they were in government and it was too late.
The fact remains that Labour does not have an electoral mandate to sell passports. This does not mean that it can’t sell them all the same, because once you’re in government you can do pretty much what you like and then pay the price later (or not). But it does mean – as if we needed further proof – that Muscat and his Labour Party are completely amoral and unethical.
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Potential buyers of Maltese passports have been warned: “buy at your own risk”.
The PN should put up a website to hinder this make it clear that once they are back in government, all passports will be immediately revoked with no exceptions. No one would invest that money on an exipiry date package.
That’s assuming that Labour won’t be in power after 2018. The way things are going, it looks like Joseph Muscat will be PM well into the 2020s and 30s. (Goodness, we’ve already eaten into the best part of the new century. You’re getting old, H.P.)
Twenty years is as safe an investment as anything.
I mean we’ll all be China’s slaves after 2040 anyway. No passports then. Just chips instead of collars.
Now, now, Baxxter. That’s might be true, but it’s more doom and gloom than anyone can stomach on a wet autumn evening.
We really should be out on the street protesting against the sale of our passports.
I so agree!
The amoral definition of exclusivity: “it’s a big world, you had it first.”
Context: two contracts of exclusivity issued in quick succession to competitors – one secretly.
It’s the non-secretive one that “enjoys” the marketing costs.
J. Agius, I totally agree with you.
You are right, as usual.
And that’s why the Labour started disussing the citizenship issue ahead of the Budget, so that once the electorate would again be presented with a propaganda Budget which taparsi fulfills the most salient electoral promises, the passport issue would again be camouflaged.
How about if the PN starts a drive to collect approximately 30,000 signatures needed to have a referendum on this matter?
Has it bothered any political party if it introduced measures that were hidden from the electorate in the manifesto that it presented before the election?
Only an educated electorate will teach politicians to abide by their promises.