Cyrus Engerer: now EU Affairs adviser at the Office of the Prime Minister
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June 21, 2014 at 8:36pm
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May I ask what is his experience in EU matters?
Being forced to resign in the middle of his work contract with the public service as an EU fund officer (the lowest grade position for someone who has a degree in European Studies)
Because according to the Prime Minister Dr. Joe Muscat He (J.M.) has the same values – or words to the same effect – as Cyrus.
The PM means that he spies on his friends and sends compromising videos to his friends employers and peers.
I do not with to be repetitive but what hold does Cyrus have over Joseph Muscat? No rude replies, please.
Bikie Alex Vella from Down Under will soon be promoted as the PM’s newest advisor: on Illegal Immigration.
Comments like this are why I wish this site had a “like” button. :)
He might also consider appointing him Special Advisor on the Legalisation of Marijuana.
Now that’s what I call meritocracy.
Headline is factually inaccurate. It should read convicted criminal Cyrus Engerer.
I applied but unfortunately I have a clean police record.
I hear the prime minister is heterosexual.
How I hate hearsay
Shouldn’t that be more like “Convicted Criminal and EU Affairs Advisor, Office of the Prime Minister”?
And is he shy or what, but I see he’s not promoting himself as ‘Soldier Of Steel, Office of the Prime Minister.’
Dan b’volontarjat, jew kumpens ghaliex kellu jirtira mit-tigrija tal-MEPs?
Joseph Muscat has a way of repaying those who helped him to power, irrespective of their track record.
Unfortunately, it is the taxpayer who is burdened with funding these invented roles. I wish I could auto sum the cost of these handouts.
I would defiantly opt to pay an additional 500 Euro per week, for the right person in the right job. On the long run it will cost less.
EU Advisor? What does he know about that?
I am informed that he was supposed to be the expert on EU Funding while a Councillor for the Sliema Local Council but in his 3 year tenure he didn’t even manage to obtain 1 cent.
Perhaps it’s just to give him that job toing and frowing from
Brussels which he’s always been after considering that the Manneken Pis statue inspires him so much.
Well we see how his eventual next court case goes.
Perhaps he’ll be upgraded if he loses it too.
A police conviction is considered an asset when applying for a post in today’s meritocratic Malta.
Ma tantx dam jistenna Cyrus!
Why did he become a member of the Labour Party? Why does anyone become a member of the Labour Party?
I would imagine that to a certain extent there is the whole ideology aspect to it: many members joined up because they actually agree with Mintoff’s way of doing politics and his attitude towards foreign policy and policy making in general. In other words the reasons why I will never feel like I have the luxury of choice when it comes to elections because at the moment I still feel like we have to chose between democratic and non democratic parties. A no brainer to people like me, but a rather oppressive situation for others who are only out to get what they want and to hell with the rest of the country. The PN didn’t give them a building permit or parking bay ergo vote labour. For them they will always be trapped in the tribal mindset where whoever is in government should act like a benevolent Master from whom you can ask for things. If they don’t deliver, then bring in another benevolent master who will.
But then there are those who start off with democratic ideas and attitudes, have good intentions but still go ahead and join Labour. Why?
I suspect it is out of practicality more than anything. It has nothing to do with ideology, although once in that camp they have little choice over certain things.
For example, let s say someone, call him Frank, wanted to go into politics. He comes from a PN voting family. He’s got some good ideas and they fit in with the PN’s way of doing things. But there is a problem, the PN are quite competent as far as politicians go. Over the past 25 years the educated and liberal have flocked towards them and as a result have created a professional powerhouse. In that respect democracy was wining the ideology battle in Malta, with Labour’s way less and less popular once education is accessible and available to all.
But there is a down side. This success made the PN competitive. It is harder to go far within the PN because there are many good people there. In a party where good ideas are delivered every day, what are the odds that you are going to stand out. The PN had the luxury of giving extra attention to whoever won the hearts of the the public, knowing that whoever that was would be good enough in everything else because these are the type of people who turn up on their doorstep.
Although good for Malta, this isn’t good for our Frank who has big dreams and an ego to match. He wants a seat in parliament. He wants to be a Minister. He wants the main job too in the long run. This is difficult for him to achieve if he were to join the PN.
There is the option of creating his own party, but let’s face it three party politics is a bit of a long way off for Malta and four party politics is a bit of a pipe dream at this point.
But Labour? Labour did not attract the intelligent and the talented. It only ever attracted the vengeful, vindictive and the bored out of their minds. No one actually wanted to join the PL. They were usually stuck with the PL.
So Frank’s mind gets to work and he realises that he could join the PN, but it would all take too long to get anywhere, and he ll also be up against people who have quite a base of social capital because of their work within the PN already. Since Malta is small all politicians who make it into Parliament become celebrities, unlike in the the UK where there are so many people in Parliament that there is no way anyone is going to know who they are. The pubic in turn form a rather strong bond with them. Imagine setting off in the PN to compete with the likes of Demarco, for example.
However, the PL has none of this. Frank will be a big fish in a small pond. He’ll have all the opportunity he s looking for for a smooth and easy ride into the top ranks. Frank chooses Labour.
I believe this is what happened to Cyrus, who was increasingly jealous of Karl Gouder’s success and reputation and wanted his spotlight. I believe this is what happened with the others who switched party. They were more motivated by their goals rather than their love for their country.
The PN’s success was its own undoing, since many talented people joined up, only to find that they couldn’t compete with each other, and then got upset because some, who had done that little bit extra to gain popularity and respect, were being seen as preferred and getting further when all were pretty much on par with one another in terms of ability. This stung their egos, and they flipped.
However, the long spoon rule now applies to our Frank, the same way it applies to all those who were tempted by certain promises and gave in. Cyrus got what he wanted initially, but let’s see what his choices have now turned him into, and how long Muscat is going to allow that spoon to be for Cyrus, and all the others.
You’d be surprised how many Franks there have been in both Parties over the years.
What’s more you’d be doubly surprised if you knew who these Franks were.
Well said.
And all this was abetted by putting in what should have been positions of trust, persons who were hell-bent to destroy the PN and demolish all the good that the PN had painstakingly built up over there 25 year uphill struggle.
Now we have to witness the quick reconstruction of the new anything goes new republic. And all this for just a few pieces of silver.
I know one person who, under the PN government, was given a senior position. The Gonzi government looked only at merit. This person comes from a very Labour family.
But when Labour came into government, one of these new ‘ex PN’ who are now everywhere fired this person.
Sometimes I am really sorry for not voting PN again after I see the grabbers with many mouths taking all. They are the new ‘klikka’ because the ordinary honest Labour supporter is being left nothing.
Good observation.