This self-styled online marketing guru has absolutely no real life experience outside the safety of an educational institution, so I am not surprised that once his consulting failed in the private sector he turned to the government skip for some healthy freeloading. Fits the profile perfectly.

Unless of course, Hal Farrug dates back to the baroque period.

‘…Martin Galea De Giovanni, chairman of Friends of the Earth Malta, said that while the NGO agreed with the principle of taxing derelict properties, the measure should not be used as a way to push families into selling properties where they were unable to do, at a cheap or unfair price….’

Which is exactly what will happen when the tax is introduced, applied to ‘abandoned’ and ‘dilapidated’ buildings Astrid hates so much, but which root cause, rent laws reducing owners to social service providers, will not be anywhere mentioned.

Then there’s this vintage Briguglio,

‘..Referring to Mr Chetcuti’s argument that owners might wish to keep vacant properties as investment, Dr Briguglio pointed out that money in banks is also taxed….’

Notice how he won’t distinguish between heirs and the odd house and those who use entire blocks as collateral to keep their ‘companies’ afloat. Property is theft, no questions asked. The dork doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of an inheritance tax which perverse imposition demands multiple payments. .

Not enough if the PS for the elderly came up with a proposal to render inheritance null should her ‘consultants’ say so.

Now that ODZ is a kelma pastaza, it’s all about moving back into the urban fabric, Marxist in tone, intent and consequences. And these will be the ones who’ll provide Utopia. Someone stop them before they turn habitat into their war of words and their obsession with class struggle turns everywhere into a Cadbury.

They failed miserably, theirs isn’t concern for the environment, simply class hate made flowery, with a dogmatic set of statements what makes business, read what Chetcuti says. It’s that bad.

Way to go, Mr Minister. Splashing almost half a million euros on fees for the chosen few, and becoming stingy with the rest of the employees.

Jien naħseb mhux jaħilbu qiegħdin imma jieħdu l-merħla għal-qatla.

It’s costing the public a bomb.

We have the minister with a string of ‘consultants’ hanging around his neck. Or should one come to another conclusion: that the minister was not competent enough in the first place?

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20151008/local/ngos-back-derelict-house-tax-but-say-that-should-also-apply-to-vacant.587349

I always suspected that Astrid was no bright spark, but today she proved she’s downright stupid.

ARMS Ltd are raking in the meter rents from EMPTY residences (without loading Water and electricity services) the size of a “town nine times the size of Birkirkara”

Add in the cost of consultants, official travel for members of parliament and separately costs of their entourage.

I am sure that if diverted to infrastructure projects this money would make a significant impact.

However, this is all outrageous. Tad-dardir.

You really love Malta, Joseph Muscat. In essence, this is a dictatorship.