KONRAD MIZZI IS GOING TO BE MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND ENERGY
The Minister for Health and Energy (right) with the chairman of Valletta 2018.
Do you remember how they laughed at Lawrence Gonzi by saying that he had ‘nobody fit to work with’?
Well, what does it say about Jo, that he has been forced to give the health portfolio to Konrad Mizzi, adding it on to energy, because nobody else could or would take it?
Konrad Mizzi is now going to be Minister for Health and Energy.
This is beyond belief.
Some people were worried because life under Labour would mean violence. I was never under that impression. I knew that it would be something much, much worse: a crazy and corrupt circus act, with mad decisions and the removal, erosion or undermining of all boundaries and safeguards designed to protect the democratic norms.
Konrad Mizzi is going to have help from Chris Fearne as a PS. So now we are going to have another Franco Mercieca scenario: what about Fearne’s numerous patients?
Owen Bonnici has been promoted to justice minister, and culture and local government have been included in his portfolio.
Jo’s best friend, Edward Zammit Lewis, has obviously been promoted too: to Minister of Tourism, replacing Il-Guy, who will be our next EU Commissioner. That will allay the fears of those who were given to understand, largely through rumours promoted as news stories by Malta Today, that he would be finance minister while Edward Scicluna would be EU Commissioner.
Imagine know-nothing Zammit Lewis, whose only advantage is that he is besties with the PM and that his wife was used to recruit new votes for Labour from among the wittering classes, as finance minister. No wonder people were worried.
Michael Farrugia, who is part of that sleazy JPO/Consuelo Herrera/Musumeci/Zejtun hamalli crowd is now Minister for Social Solidarity, replacing the new president. Thank heavens he has been removed from responsibility for the planning authority, but the scope for fun and favours in his new playground is pretty big. I am sure he will restrain himself.
Jose Herrera was not promoted and remains a humble PS – but he has been given Zammit Lewis’s old portfolio as PS for Competitiveness.
That ghastly, shrieking harridan, Justyne Caruana, has been promoted: from nothing to PS for what she would call ‘immankati, dizgrazzjati u xjuh’, taking over Franco Mercieca’s job because he has resigned. The thinking here seems to be that jobs for Gozitans should stay with Gozitans.
Chris Agius will be PS for sport and Stefan Buontempo, who was PS for sport but entirely unsuitable because he is so overweight and ungainly, will be PS for local government.
There’s more: Michael Falzon has been promoted too, from chief of that wotsit committee for the elimination of red tape, to PS for planning, taking over from Michael Farrugia.
Sandro Chetcuti and Robert Musumeci are going to have to start smarming from scratch.
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The new Austin Gatt. The super ministry.
Imagine the back bench, chock a block with dentists, GPs, paediatricians and specialists left out.
Muscat’s war on the honoraria backfired.
Could it also be a vendetta and to denigrate Dr Godfrey Farrugia at the same time. Look Konrad Mizzi can handle not only his ministry but also the one Dr Godfrey Farrugia could not handle.
More like an utter panic when both cabinet members with medical qualifications resigned, Vella, another one, found foreign affairs rather a cosy affair and backbenchers refused to be appointed to follow instructions from the real one running the show.
Then there’s the rather lovely coincidence of having health and energy under the same ministry. Dalli’s interests are wide and varied.
Can do after all.
A health minister whose only experience in health were the flower beds around Mater Dei Hospital.
Nice.
What a bright idea giving health ministry to Konrad Mizzi, one moment he runs the cancer factory and then sending his patients to the repair factory.
Loved this assessment.
The coconut’s been made redundant, Carmelo Abela is official spokesman for the government.
Where’s the coconut going?
Maybe he is Plan B when il-Guy falls at the first hurdle when being grilled by MEPs?
Konrad Mizzi will solve the hospital overcrowding problem.
He will surely find a 50 year old hospital ship and berth it next to the LNG gas tanker in Marsaxlokk bay.
If the LNG gas tanker blows up we will have back up hospital facilities. Till then we can use it as a back up to Mater Dei.
The vicinity to the LNG gas tanker does not matter because experts said so.
I am sure that Konrad will build a gas-powered mega-tent in front of the general hospital. Will it be made in China?
Ghas-sahha u l-energija issa ghadna l-Konrad kull filghaxija.
Brilliant.
Tara kif zammha l-weghda Jo? Hlief li flok il-pirmli se jwasslilna l-kont tad-dawl.
They’ll probably start popping out of the smart meter.
Haha …slogan of the year..cannot get it out of my head
Health and energy go together. No?
I would add sports.
So do we now have John Dalli as consultant to the ENERGY and health Minister?
Konrad Mizzi will now be working for John Dalli & Associates: power station, health and energy.
Now that Michael Farrugia’s no longer responsible for MEPA, and the prime minister had retained lands department and access to crucial info, one can only imagine what Muscat’s after.
Sleight of hand there.
Konrad the Ovaltine minister; remember the corny commercial from the golden years? For health, strength and energy drink Ovaltine each day.
Let’s just hope they don’t sell off Mater Dei Hospital to China too. I wonder if there’s more than meets the eye to this move.
Now he’ll sell St Luke’s Hospital to his Chinese friends to use as their solar panel assembly plant.
Actually this appointment is the green light that Malta will become the testing ground for cheap, unsaleable, and questionable Chinese medicine.
Around a year ago, Joseph Muscat that we need to diversify the importation of medicine away from Europe, Which he claimed was pricey. At the same time, the Chinese cannot break through in the pharmaceutical area since nobody trusts their quality and standards.
P Shaw, you’re right.
From the PN’s success in creating a certified generics cluster to fake medicinals.
They’ll poison us first, those who survive get blown up.
Two major nationally important portfolios are now handled by a corrupt minister.
I say corrupt solely because in my personal view it is utterly unacceptable in a democratic country for an honest minister to tolerate that his and his wife’s joint income from taxpayers is multiplied over and over again by sending his wife off as a Euro 13,000 a month “special envoy to China”.
She could be gathering nuts for all we know.
My guess is that Konrad Mizzi will be minister for both energy and health for a very short time. Probably whoever takes Marie Louise Coleiro Preca’s seat in parliament will then become the new health minister.
Maybe a stupid question: Is John Dalli therefore still in the running?
U Silvio Parnis rega baqa b’ xejn.
Silvio, marketing tool – outings, coffee mornings u hekk.
No, not a marketing tool. Just a tool.
Stupid question: Does this increase his salary?
[Daphne – No. But it might increase his wife’s. We won’t know about that because Malta Enterprise and the government are refusing to answer questions about her terms and conditions.]
Daphne Sorry but not all people from Zejtun are hamalli . I am a big fan of your blog but I don’t like being called a hamalla . Thanks
[Daphne – Well, Scarlet, not all people from Sliema are tal-pepe, not by a long shot. So imagine how upset Sliema hamalli from the Lazy Corner, like Joseph and Manuel Cuschieri, get when people go on and on about ‘minn tas-Sliema mela tal-pepe’.]
Yes but tal pepe means a lot different then being a hamalla .I would rather be called tal pepe then a hamalla . It is not nice to label people no matter where they come from . Thanks
[Daphne – No, I don’t like being called tal-pepe at all. It’s patronising and insulting, and also inaccurate. In my socio-linguistic background, we say ‘daddy’ not ‘papa’.]
Ok so we agree better not to be called anything at all .I also used to call my dad daddy . Thanks
Daphne if your statement is correct then I come from a different socio-linguistic background to you. I call my father ‘papa’ as do several of my friends (politically formally from the Striklandjani camp if that has anything to do with it) whilst others from different backgrounds in my neck of the woods would call their father ‘missier’ or ‘Deddy’.
[Daphne – Both are used, though I have to say among my friends it was mainly ‘daddy’ as distinct from ‘deddy’, with very few ‘papas’.]
Ministru fil-LIVELLI kollha.
Will he start producing energy drinks for better health?
Comment of the evening.
Ministru tan-No Limits.
Which f*cking rectum canal would appoint someone to take on the two most important portfolios for a country to run smoothly!
As if Mr “Arranged Marriage But She Ran Off Back To China” Konrad Mizzi can cope with both.
Jaqaw the Chinese are interested in buying out the whole f*cking health insurance system too?
I’m surprised they didn’t give him ministry of transport too – then we would be right royally f*cked.
I can imagine someone sitting in front of the tellie, munching on his gluten free mortadella, watching House of Cards, translating every word for his wifey, thinking to himself, “Idea tajba din. Naghmel l-istess ghal Malta mela.”
The only silver lining in this story is that Fearne is going to be around, else this is the greatest shit show in history.
And they used to say Austin Gatt was the worst minister.
That’s only until the realisation of how his income is going to plummet sets in. Then it will be Franco Mercieca déjà vu all over again.
Maybe it is just a cover up for Dalli’s reign over Mater Dei Hospital and the Health Ministry. I cannot imagine how Konrad Mizzi will be able to carry on the portfolio of two ministries forged into one.
With Labour always expect the unexpected.
I have this funny feeling that giving Konrad both ministries came up at a last minute resort. What i think is that he wanted to give health to Micheal Farrugia and Godfrey was to be given MLCP’s ministry. With Godfrey’s resignation he was left out in the cold and to patch up things, he gave Micheal Farrugia MLCP’s ministry and had to put health on somebody else and chose Konrad in confusion.
Being a pharmacist, having Konrad Mizzi as our health minister was a total and utter shock for me.
First of all, the idiot has no medical background. He may be good with numbers, but from experiences abroad, any healthcare system which is run based on numbers and costs is failing big time, as one can witness by the deterioration of the care offered by the UK’s NHS.
Secondly, the choice could have fallen on any other Labour MP who is a doctor: Deo Debattista, Etienne Grech, Michael Farrugia, George Vella or Chris Fearne.
Thirdly, with Chris Fearne being made PS for Health, if he already will have to give up his job due to the PS post, why not make him Health Minister in the first place?
Any previous Health Minister will tell you that that Ministry is a huge one with many different sections, and a difficult one to manage. Yet now we have a Minister who will juggle it together with another ministry, one on which huge promises have been made.
With all the China connections Mizzi has, will we now see a shift towards purchasing medicines from China? Will Maltese distributors ever win another tender? Time will tell. But my gut instinct is that we’re going from the frying-pan into the fire.
He is NOT good with numbers.
Yes, we will see a shift towards purchasing medicines from China.
They get their passports, we get their medicines, our certifying authorities a scam to clear the way for their rubbish into the EU.
His wife is an envoy for Malta Enterprise, and still, no businessman ever got access to her office in China. Sai Mizzi isn’t there on our behalf, but to open avenues for Chinese forgers to pour more of their junk into the primary global market, 500 million citizens of twenty eight welfare states.
Malta globali my dears. That’s the enterprise.
This simplifies matters somewhat. If you have a gas problem, one Ministry will sort you out.