This is like the Cold War: both political parties have their finger on a red button and won’t push in case the other does

Published: June 23, 2014 at 10:09pm

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Malta Today reports that the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party together owe around Eur2.5 million for water and electricity. Neither of them sounds the alarm about the other, because, you know…

And to make this even more comedic, who’s in charge of credit control at the billing agency, ARMS? Carmen Ciantar, who was Mrs Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando until a few months ago.

But that’s not how Malta Today describes her. No, Malta Today describes her as “a Labour activist who was publicly visible during electoral rallies as part of the selected audience seated behind Joseph Muscat”. Oh, indeed. That’s what Carmen Camilleri Ciantar Pullicino Orlando is famous for: sitting behind Joseph Muscat.




11 Comments Comment

  1. H.P. Baxxter says:

    One is tempted to call down a plague on both their houses.

  2. Challie says:

    So glad to see you recognising the mediocre political situation of Malta from both ends.

    • D. Borg says:

      If only, such objective stance, can be maintained…..

      albeit Labour tends to shoot itself in the foot in tenfolds!

      The ‘beauty’ of the ongoing Maltese duopoly.

  3. Antoine Vella says:

    We all know about the financial troubles of the PN but I never expected the PL to have similar problems. Not with the lavish electoral campaigns they run.

    • Manuel says:

      Well, they are using government funds for party activities. They have the state coffers as a cushion. You know, advertising Labour’s policies using government funds.

  4. Natalie says:

    Yet us, poor mortals have to,pay our dues within the 15 days of receipt of such bills. The two major parties are the local mafia, when it suits them they are all cushy cushy together,always at our expense.

  5. observer says:

    Any ‘well tampered’ meters somewhere?

    Not to worry. There’s an amnesty being bandied about.

  6. pm says:

    Are they charged interest on the balances due, like the common people?

  7. Aunt Hetty says:

    If a private individual owed that sort of money to Enemalta he would have been tarred, feathered and pilloried ages ago and made to pay the outstanding sum and interests accrued.

    As things stand right now with Joseph Muscat at the helm, two-penny small fish Enemalta technicians get hauled up to court and jailed whilst the big fish get away scot free.

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