Two cents’ worth of Labour history
Mark Anthony Falzon’s column in The Sunday Times today – don’t miss it:
The Prime Minister’s main concern of the day seems to be to shore up the Labour vote for the May 24 European Parliament elections. While that’s entirely forgivable given that he is also the Labour leader, I’m not sure last week’s events helped the cause all that much.
First there was the Wednesday press conference at which he solemnly announced a two cents’ reduction in the price of petrol and a couple of other titbits to do with gas and such. Joseph Muscat spent the days leading up to the occasion in messianic mode, talking about the “good news” to come. When it did, it turned out not to be worthy of a Prime Minister. It was, in fact, the kind of news Karmnu tal-grocer might brighten up his patrons’ morning with.
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The big news was meant to be ‘the partial privatisation of Air Malta’ which Muscat chose to delay to avoid repercussions on the MEP elections.
However unfortunately he gained more points according to Malta Today poll.
Oh I dunno :( and yet, all polls seem to be pointing to a very comfortable labour victory… Seems labour are messing up and the Nats aren’t convincing anybody much. Sigh…
The survey surely wasn’t done on the 4th of May.
A week is a long time in politics.
Now everyone is waiting for Joey Tremors to announce the Big One.
Italian PM Renzi gave low-income-earners 80 euros. That is what I call great news and not the two cents reduction in fuel price we had here.
[Daphne – Hardly. What do you do with 80 euros? Fill up your car-tank and drive by McDonald’s to buy a couple of burgers with the change?]
Daphne, you are very right. Italy is a corrupt, stagnant and expensive country with a complex historical background which prevents it from functioning as a full-fledged republic. It does not exactly splash on social welfare programmes and many are living in complete misery, at least, by European standards.
Yes fine, although this romanticising what was essentially a bunch of ‘revolutionaries’ who preached violence as one of the fundamental ‘hames punti’ cannot be tolerated any longer.
Read those and you’ll understand what Boffa was up against, why Strickland and the PN formed the coalitions necessary to keep him from power and how KMB was amongst the leaders of the ‘Umbrella’ to counteract their doctrine. Because that’s what it was.
Panza’s tomes to the parallel sequence in Italy may help. Communism in the fifties was Stalinism, rather enticing.
Must be those blessed Balluta Buildings.