Some of those who found Muscat terribly impressive before March ’13 must be feeling like right and proper idiots now. I said ‘some’.
When the prime minister fired his health minister, his social policy minister and his tourism minister and disguised all three moves as promotions (one of which failed to take), he holed himself up at Girgenti Palace and left the press locked out behind locked gates, instructing his minister drive past them and right in through the gate, not speaking to anyone, the famous and deliberate exception being Godfrey Farrugia.
One the way out, he drove straight past the reporters who had been waiting in the damp with nowhere to sit for hours, with his car windows rolled up, almost mowing them down. One could be heard shouting ‘Ar’ hemm’ on video.
He resisted all calls to answer questions and refused to give a press conference. He avoided the press for days afterwards.
Now, to announce a two cents decrease in the price of petrol, he calls an urgent press conference, raising expectations, and addresses it with his health and energy minister.
It’s not farcical. It’s downright offensive.
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At the very least, he could have held today’s press conference at Hugh Anastasi’s.
Ouch.
I think he was about to announce something and it blew up in his face at the 11th hour. What a wanker.
I suppose Michelle’s still in Rome then.
Goes to show Labour never change: €0.02 is equivalent to eight mils (milezmi).
No. Not even that at all when you take inflation into account.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/10062711/One-and-two-cent-coins-could-disappear-under-EU-plans.html
Damn.
8 mils is a lot considering that under Mintoff some importers were marched to court incessantly by Price Control for selling products at what was deemed to be 1 or 2 mils over the State’s established price.
It’s ‘good’ news in the sense that it’s not bad news.
Some were expecting him to announce the sale of Mater Dei to the Chinese or the launching of some other harebrained scheme.
I thought he had to give us an account of what Sai Mizzi is doing?
I love the irony caused by timing.
Martin Scicluna’s column in Times of Malta today focusses on tearing apart Simon Busuttil to implicitly convince us that Muscat is a great leader and how right Scicluna was to tell us all to follow his example and vote for him.
Quite frankly Martin Scicluna is beyond comprehension. He projects himself as analytical and tries to be logical in his writings.
And yet, with so many wrong decisions of this government, he prefers to criticise the party in Opposition. Maybe someone should remind him that all the bad decisions which affect people’s livelihood and quality of life are being taken by the PL in government, and not by the PN.
[Daphne – That’s because Martin Scicluna made a catastrophically bad decision himself: voting Labour, boasting about it, and telling the rest of us to do the same. Now, it’s all about justifying himself and proving himself right.]
Am I allowed to call Martin Scicluna a pompous prat?
He’s fast turning into another Lino Spiteri – the silver-haired Conscience of the Nation, disembodied from his own past.
This is fuelism. I own a diesel car – most company-owned cars are diesel – so where is my “good news”? That the price is staying the same until December.
If you have a petrol car you will, if you use 30 euros of petrol a week, save €13.56 by the end of the year and can buy a pizza for yourself and a friend.
Min ghand ic-champ, forsi.
And bear in mind that the commercial vehicles road licence has increased by 300%.
In some ways, Muscat’s regime is worse than Mintoff’s, but since I wasn’t around to experience the latter first hand, I stand to be corrected.
However, I don’t ever recall my parents mentioning that any of Mintoff’s goons dispensed out of stock pharmaceuticals in Labour clubs, but relatively innocuous Mars bars. Nor did the erstwhile Labour government try to leverage a political advantage out of two cents price cut.
They just keep sinking lower and lower, don’t they? We’ve hit rock bottom so many times, we’ve nearly dug ourselves a tunnel to Earth’s core.
Consider yourself a very lucky man indeed Connor, for missing that first-hand experience.
Whilst the probability is you would not have written what you have, if you did you would have been rounded up and beaten up hard enough to convince you that you are an enemy of the state.
I had already planned to carcade around the island to celebrate Jo’s good news. Maaa what a let down. But wejtabit – we can still do it bit-2c decrease in price. Incredible.
Zmien l-incova u t-tonn taz-zejt rega gie maghna.
Tieħdux qatgħa jekk nerġgħu nibdew bir-“ration”. Għal dawk li ma jiftakruhx… konna mmorru għand tal-merċa (il-grocer) u jagħtina skont kemm imiss kull familja, iz-zokkor, id-dqiq u ma nafx x’aktar u jekk tgħaddi tgħaddi u jekk ma tgħaddix tibqa’ tittewweb.
A press conference. Oh what an anticlimax.
Two cents biss? X’ qamel. Qisna taht il-Labour.
Honestly, no really, honestly, can anyone imagine Lawrence Gonzi calling a press conference with flags and all to announce a 2 cents (or even more) off the price of anything?
And yes, for those with a short memory, there were fluctuations in the fuel prices + or – during the last PN government.
Simple things please simple minds.
I estimated what I could have possibly be saving till the end of the year and it worked out to be something to the tune of 10 litres of petrol per week.
It worked out something in the region of €10 something. I remembered that there is the PN marathon running. So I topped the €10 with what Konrad is estimating to be sparing me on my energy bills. Put it all together and to save further on petrol I rang up the PN and made a modest donation for the occasion.
Well done Gaetano. We will follow you but then the PN would not be able to organize a campaign for Malta Ahjar at the same level that the PL is organizing the Malta Energija Posittiva.