A husband-and-wife combo negotiating with Shanghai Electric and the Chinese dictatorship
Mrs Mizzi – clearly paid for nothing as her husband had to fly in.
A truly phenomenal waste of space.
Is that corrupt or what?
The Chinese dictators must think we do things their way, and that we are totally non-EU.
Malta’s Energy Minister flies to Beijing with his begging-bowl (now, where have we seen that before?) rather than Shanghai Electric flying to Malta to meet him, which is the way things are done.
Shanghai Electric is in Shanghai, two hours away by plane from where he is.
But let’s give Phenomenal Mizzi the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe the big cheeses at Shanghai Electric (though I suspect they sent the small ones) graciously conceded to fly to Beijing themselves so that Phenomenal Mizzi could also hawk round his begging-bowl in Beijing, the seat of government, and perhaps have a quick leg-over with the missus if she wasn’t crying for a change.
Yes, Mrs Mizzi is in Beijing and the reason we’re paying her so much money, against our will, is because she’s meant to be doing that work herself.
She is meant to be negotiating with Shanghai Electric in Shanghai and with the Chinese dictatorship in Beijing.
We pay her, and her husband has to fly out – again at our expense – to do the work. I wonder what the Chinese think when they find themselves confronted with a Malta government husband-and-wife combo, both carrying begging-bowls.
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I wonder what the Chinese think of one of their own carrying another state’s begging bowl. Then again, how can Mrs Mizzi possibly defend our interests, even given her phenomenal salary?
How can her allegiance to Malta’s interests ever be a sure thing?
Mintoff used to run a country as if he was running a household, history repeats itself
He just ran things badly. God forbid people run their households the way Mintoff ran Malta.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141014/local/busuttil-government-should-not-bind-itself-to-buy-electricity-from-chinese-run-bwsc-plant.539730
Shiv Nair is probably with them, too. A charming threesome.
Some years ago I heard what seems to be a new Maltese idiom : “irid jahx* bil-pesisa rieqda”. It seems to fit Minister Mizzi perfectly and might also explain why his wife seems to cope very well without him around.
This is what the Chinese think.
“Dac-cuc minghalih ser ibellana r-ross bil-labra”.
Insomma – gvern tal ‘gaxin’.
And while they spend our money on perks and first class tickets to China and the US, for themselves and their free-loading wives, those students who worked at the state hospital in the summer haven’t been paid yet.
Well, as long as Michelle and Joseph, Sai and Konrad, and Codruta and Manuel are making the most of it…
While the amateurish puppets are selling Malta to the Chinese in order to commit Maltese taxpayers to hefty monopolistic prices and guaranteed quantities, the market price of oil is going down and is expected to go down further.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102087319
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102082753
Why are you surprised? Didn’t the other Mizzi (Joe) fly to Madrid to meet the Autobus de Leon bus company bosses when it is they who should have come to Malta.
Shanghai Electric is principally state-owned. That makes it part of China’s dictatorship machinery.
Do you recall when some months ago, I wrote here that the Chinese packed up and went away from Enemalta?
Li kieku konna ghadna nghixu fi zmien il-Farawn jew Babilonja jew fl-Imperu Hittit kont nghid li dik il-mara mara marret ostagg bhal ma kienu jaghmlu fi zmien il-Griegi u r-Rumani.
Imma li issa qed nghixu fi zmien modern wara tant eluf ta’ snin nghid li dik il-mara qed tehdilna €13000 fix-xahar ghal gost u l-pjacir biex ma nuzax kelma tibda biz-z.