Excellent leading article in Times of Malta today
And I’m glad they raised the point that it is “odious” of Joseph Muscat to try to justify his minister’s wife’s contract by saying that it is comparable to Richard Cachia Caruana’s, when what we have here is a barely articulate woman with no track record to speak of (at least, clearly not one they want to boast about) and no evident abilities, who just so happens to be married to a government minister and speak Chinese as Malta’s already-incumbent ambassador does.
Malta’s permanent representative at the European Union, quite differently, had massive responsibilities, and had been Malta’s chief negotiator in the run-up to EU membership – and he had already negotiated one Eur1.2 billion package for the country. And just remember the way the Labour Party reacted to all that.
And, of course, Saviour Balzan – instead of grinding his axe right across this sorry woman’s head (crying in interviews, indeed) he hoovers up the tears and the Peking duck. Because, you know, he’s impartial.
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I’m sure most of the Chinese ladies who work as masseuses speak Chinese too. Pity they are not married to a minister because they could have landed the job.
Fenomenali.
One sincerely hopes there’s still public opinion out there.
This isn’t about what she earns; it’s the fact she was put there, has no role to serve local entrepreneurs, and expects us, as Kurt Farrugia suggested this morning, to ‘keep our mouth shut’.
This is Labour’s second year, and are things coming to a head.
It’s the fundamentals of their methodology that creates a challenge to the rule of law and the principles of democratic representation.
They are by design, into oppression and being economical with the truth. It’s an essential part of the method.
Remember public squalor Martin Scicluna, and just the once think why this should be so. All I can suggest is that If truth is splendour, all that is squalid is the opposite of truth.
Two years ago the country was either for or against Piano’s proposal; taste, art, bla bla, the blessed paradigm shift everyone championed but maybe never got themselves to in the first place.
Now this.
Where did Kurt Farrugia say that? Do you have a link?
I grudgingly accept that it is good.
I am bewildered however by three things:
(a) That ‘Times of Malta Credibility Matters’ has failed to say in its editorial that comparisons with Mr Cachia Caruana are fallacious because he was what the Americans would call a ‘super-ambassador’ negotiating major treaty issues whilst she is simply a trade representative and not even an ambassador;
(b) That (i) no one at Malta Enterprise has even been paid what she is being paid and (ii) what exactly are her qualifications for the job, other than being the Minister’s escort, er, wife, and (iii) why has ‘TOM Credibility Matters’ not raised a riot as it used to do, about this disturbing case of Treasury pillage?
(c) That ‘TOM Credibility Matters’ did not run an online survey say 7 months ago asking whether people felt that her contract should be made public immediately. The Times know that their surveys carry weight with law-makers.
The disgusting, appalling, revolting and disturbing ego-massaging and cronyism we have witnessed The Times engaging in with the Labour Party Government must not be forgotten or forgiven. They ‘spit in the air and it landed on their faces’ and likewise, they ‘shat in the spring they drink from’. Let them now revel in the sewer they built.
As Mr Baxxter would eloquently say, fark them all.
I wonder if the steam-piston-gurgling-red-in-the-face-and-wet-around-the-ears-trumped-up-newly-educated-fresh-from-school clown we call the Energy Minister is now going to call his corrupt, weeping, lying, snivelling, greedy China-girl and screech “Shame on you!” at her through her taxpayer-funded, fully-expensed and paid for telephone in her grace and favour house, which neither he nor she pay for.
Pimps, thieves, scoundrels and frauds, all the flapping lot and their conniving WAGS.
Juncker greeted Muscat with an “amiable” smack on the forehead in Brussels today.
The whole Mizzi saga stinks.
Who had ever heard of Konrad Mizzi before last year’s general election? All of a sudden he is being paraded around as their energy expert, their star candidate. Now he is Health AND Energy minister.
Am I the only one who thinks that this guy also has some hold over the PM and these “jobs” for him and his wife are “thanks” for helping him win the election?
Maybe Mrs Mizzi has already done the job she is now being paid for by using what Chinese influence she has to help her husband become an energy guru and the PL triumph last year?
Chinese proverb.
Yǒu qián néng shǐ guǐ tuī mò.
‘If you have money you can make the devil push your grind stone.’
With the now exposed salary of over €13,000 a month the lying Sai Mizzi Liang can hire a whole team of devils to push hers.
Since the National Audit Office had called the PN’s €500 weekly increase “a good example in bad practice” would it kindly let us know what it thinks of this example of distasteful and dangerous amateurish governance.
Was actually surprised reading that yesterday. Miskina, she did shed a tear though, trying to gather sympathy somehow.
Now this is puzzling. How can Times of Malta have such an excellent editorial – several excellent editorials, actually – but then deploy non-investigative journalism to most of the rest of its newspaper? Isn’t the editor supposed to make sure that the newspaper toes a common editorial line and all articles are written well?
Why didn’t its journalists interviewing Sai Mizzi ask her what her job entails exactly? I think it’s a more pressing issue than her salary.
As the Prime Minister tried to point out, we’ve had other officials with a similar package, but of course, theirs was merited. So what is Sai Mizzi doing there to merit 13,000 euros a month?
I believe that The Malta Independent is a superior newspaper with cutting-edge journalism. It also asks pertinent questions. However, very often, it’s riddled with typos making it quite irritating to read.