Top comment: Muscat is transparent in his methods, if nothing else
Posted by Antoine Vella:
Everybody agrees that the vague accusation against George Pullicino is a diversionary tactic. The PN was expecting this and should have had a planned response in place.
As you say, Daphne, Joseph Muscat is so predictable that he’s transparent in this if in nothing else. It’s easy to see, for example, his strategy for next year’s local elections.
They will be held in spring, just weeks after the supposed inauguration of the new power station. This will be on everybody’s mind and the failed completion of the project could well influence how people vote.
Muscat has found a way to overcome this. The interconnector cable will be in place by February at the latest and in March they will finally shut down the Marsa power station. No doubt there will be much pomp and circumstance and much boasting of “keeping promises”. Muscat will say that he is closing down the “cancer factory” as promised and people will forget that when he spoke of a cancer factory he was not referring to the Marsa plant but to the BWSC one, using heavy fuel oil.
This, together with the reduction in tariffs for businesses will balance out the disappointment of the failed Electrogas power station and constitute the basis of the entire propaganda campaign for the elections. Who cares where they find the money? They will think of something.
There is also the possibility that, by then, things will have been smoothed out with Shangai Electric and the BWSC plant transferred to the Chinese government. This will be presented as another achievement and people will forget that the agreement with China has already been supposedly finalised and signed – again, with much pomp – in early 2014.
Incidentally, the interconnector should also have been ready by March of this year, so the shutting-down of the Marsa power station will have come a year late.
The PN is forewarned; it cannot allow these delays to be forgotten and presented as triumphs of the regime.
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Can someone mention one project that this government has started – concept and all- besides the selling of passports?
Trying really hard.
The beautification and rehabilitation of Strait Street and changing the V18 logo?
In a year or two, Jason Micallef will try to take credit for the revitalisation of Strait Street, when that revitalisation happened over past years.
Every time he refers to Strait Street, he gives the impression that it is lifeless and dull. Anyone who goes there weekend evenings knows that the opposite is true.
Another lie with the ever increasing list of PL lies.
Would employing 300 cronies at Air Malta count as a project?
Been waiting for Gonzi`s 1.2 B. Finally, Louis appeared and announced.
Are people giving too much credit to Joseph Muscat’s ability, intelligence and cunning to knowingly “plan” all these vindictive mess-ups and unethical errors that have so far characterized his “government”? In my opinion these events show up his ignorance and stupidity.
I would rather compare him to a drunken driver going at full speed managing to avoid causing a major disastrous crash only because other intelligent and sober drivers and pedestrians have the presence of mind to stand out of his way. He will eventually crash by himself into a solid concrete bunker.
As some have said already, he cannot even plan and organise a piss-up in a brewery.
I’m afraid that if the police don’t find anything to incriminate George Pullicino, they will be in no hurry to close the investigations and will leave him indefinitely under investigation.
On the other hand if a suspicion crops up, the police in collusion with the government leave it for the opportune moment to announce it.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/oil-price-will-fall-to-70-us-a-barrel-in-2015-goldman-sachs-says-1.2814041
At $70 everything should be even more cheaper than promised.