Leslie Skipper must be desperate

Published: April 23, 2014 at 3:17am

We are supposed to believe that Leslie Skipper, the British former journalist, now PR consultant, who has been giving advice to Muscat’s government for the last year or so, is being paid 25 euros an hour and a retainer of 7,000 euros a year.

Twenty-five euros an hour is, in the city out of which Mr Skipper operates, London, the going rate for a cleaner.

If he has accepted to work at that fee, then he must be desperate. And if he is desperate, then he isn’t worth even that fee.

But I don’t believe that’s what he is being paid. On paper, perhaps, but we have little way of knowing what else is going on, and the question that hasn’t been asked yet is this: who introduced Leslie Skipper to Joseph Muscat?

Therein lies the answer.




14 Comments Comment

  1. Jozef says:

    So what was Kurt doing?

  2. tony says:

    How come Muscat has appointed a foreigner and not A CUC MALTI?

  3. Toni says:

    So the government is paying a retainer fee plus an hourly rate to someone who, Joseph Muscat has repeatedly denied, has been engaged by him.

  4. M. Cassar says:

    Any ‘perks’?

  5. Pablo says:

    The public purse pays an ex journalist to advise an ex journalist on how to fill the shoes of a prime minister.

  6. Joe Micallef says:

    Leslie Skipper was doing media trending in Malta, at least, before May 2011.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_OIDVnF8ww&feature=youtube_gdata

  7. Nik says:

    I’m guessing Shiv Nair is the link.

  8. Clueless says:

    The €37,000 capping figure is not for the whole government but presumably per ministry/government entity.

    Just see how much Marie Antoinette Coleiro Preca spent on marketing for her poverty campaign.

  9. H.P. Baxxter says:

    It is a beautiful spring day.

    I think I shall wear my sunny hat today.

    I keep the other five, brushed and stored inside a box.

    I smile at passers-by but I’m cunning as a fox.

  10. ciccio says:

    A retainer of euro 7,000 a year?

    That’s almost as much as the prime minister is paying himself to use his family saloon car.

  11. Last Post says:

    This Labour government is based on salesmanship not statesmanship.

  12. Tracy says:

    Mela issa jista’ jsir indhil barrani ?

  13. Toni Borg says:

    The most important question is WHO IS PAYING FOR THIS GUY?

    WE ARE.

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