Comments on: EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Muscat has been paid Eur7,000 a year by the government for using his own car for the last SIX YEARS already

By: Socrates

Socrates — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:24:26 +0000

People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones….

P.N lost the election due to overwhelming corruption in everyone’s face. Now with a flick of a switch P.N is all righteous and demonizing P.L .
If P.N continue depicting P.L as all black and P.N as all white, means the lesson hasn’t been learnt.

[Daphne – The PN lost the election for the same reason some wars broke out in Europe in times past: ‘the people were restless’. Boredom and the need for excitement are great motivators in general elections, Socrates, which is why middle-aged people – especially those with problems in their lives – always account for a significant shift. Corruption tends not to be a factor in Maltese elections, which is why Labour won in 1976, sort of won in 1981 and almost won in 1987. It’s jealousy that does it, and never make the mistake of confusing jealousy with disapproval of corruption. With a little bit of thought, you will see clearly that when people express anger at corruption, what they are really expressing is their annoyance at the fact that others, and not they themselves, are benefitting from it. Maltese people are not Swedes.]

By: Gahan

Gahan — Tue, 20 May 2014 23:35:56 +0000

One simple question : Did he declare this income when he became prime minister?

Did he declare the petrol allowance and the €7,000 in his Income Tax form?

By: Marvin Degiorgio

Marvin Degiorgio — Tue, 20 May 2014 20:19:05 +0000

Still much cheaper then our former pm’s bmw!!! :)

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130502/local/Ex-PM-s-car-repairs-cost-more-than-58k.468014

[Daphne – That’s the cost of repairs, Marvin. You are not comparing like with like. Muscat’s car is repaired too (there were photographs of one such repair job on this website), and with a car that’s already seven years old, repairs and parts are not cheap. The trouble is that The Times have not ‘learned’ how much repairs to this PM’s car have cost yet.]

By: gaetano pace

gaetano pace — Tue, 20 May 2014 18:04:28 +0000

Ghandek tkun taf, Daphne, li biex ixxejjer bicca karta ta’ cekk li qatt ma kellek trid tkun veru suldat tal-azzar ghax kieku kif ser tkun tiflah ghal dawk is-snin kollha Joseph jghaddi z-zmien bik.

By: Calculator

Calculator — Tue, 20 May 2014 16:02:47 +0000

In reply to ron. Or conversely, China would have a direct interest in keeping Labour in power and would thus prop up their stooges in Malta by any means necessary.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 20 May 2014 15:39:49 +0000

And he also gets that residual value of the car once he sells it at the age of 12 (he bought it in 2007).

By: ron

ron — Tue, 20 May 2014 15:26:27 +0000

Ciccio has presented a good and analysis of the situation however he left one very imlortant point out, which is that if the PN is returned to power after 5 years PN would not be free to choose electricity supply for the country but PN would be blackmailed by the chinese making their governance very very difficult helping PL back to government.

By: J Agius

J Agius — Tue, 20 May 2014 14:59:23 +0000

I remember him on Bondi+ defending himself for being on the list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7KfZ3egKPs

By: michael seychell

michael seychell — Tue, 20 May 2014 14:48:09 +0000

Mintoff – a Labour Party Leader and millionaire.

Joseph Muscat – a Labour Party leader soon to become a millionaire who has the same values, as he himself said, as those of Cyrus Engerer.

By: winwood

winwood — Tue, 20 May 2014 14:12:59 +0000

In reply to dutchie. If Daphne has managed to reveal Muscat's hypocrisy on this, I would now expect the Nationalist Party to keep up the pressure and remind the electorate for the next 4 years if need be.