€37 million increase in government salaries in the last two years

He’s increased the government’s wages-and-salaries bill by 37 million euros a year

What was that fuss they made about ‘hames mitt ewro fil-gimgha’?

The numbers released today by the National Statistics Office and Eurostat show that government expenditure is increasing and so is its debt.

Eurostat says that the increase in the Malta government’s expenditure is the second highest in the European Union.

The government’s wages-and-salaries bill increased by €19 million in the Labour Party’s first year of government and then by another €18 million in the year after that.

This means that the Labour government has increased the public sector payroll bill by €37 million A YEAR so far. You will understand that this is not a one-off increase by that, because this is the public sector we are talking about, the additional €37 million will paid year after year after year until all those people retire or, if they are on contract, those contracts fall through.

Meanwhile, the prime minister’s wife and the head of state faff around ‘raising money for charity’ – the sort of things that should more properly be provided by social services.

If they hadn’t put so many of their friends, cousins, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cronies on the state payroll, they could have spent those €37 million on the social services that would make those self-serving vehicles, the Marigold Foundation and the Community Chest Fund, completely redundant.

Michelle Muscat’s husband spends €37 million putting his cronies on the public sector payroll while Michelle Muscat swims the channel for donations from the Bank of Valletta.