More Supermarket shelf-stacker given job at Identity Malta’s ‘residence affairs’ office

Wayne Brownrigg: from stacking shelves at Scotts Supermarket to a desk job as right-hand man to the manager of the Residence Affairs department at Identity Malta

Wayne Brownrigg, a shelf-stacker at More Supermarket in Mosta (since closed down and owners Darren Casha and Ryan Schembri have done a runner), has been put on the payroll at Identity Malta with a desk job in the Residence Affairs office where Ryan Spagnol has been appointed manager.

Brownrigg now works for Spagnol but he is barely literate, so another job has had to be created: an assistant for Brownrigg who reads and writes his emails and other correspondence and documents.

Spagnol himself is another example of Labour meritocracy and fit-for-purpose appointments. A recent graduate still in his 20s, he is now one of the most senior people at Identity Malta, reporting directing to executive chairman Joe Vella Bonnici.

His qualification for the post? He was the president of the pro-Labour student group Pulse, played a prominent part in the Labour Party’s student campaign, and organised the ‘for cameras’ show in which students were assembled at MCAST and led in chants of SHAME ON YOU which drowned out Prime Minister Gonzi’s words.

But then the executive chairman is no meritocratic appointment either: he was a failed Labour Party candidate in the last general election.