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I’ve received another email from Kurt and the Coconuts. “Garanzija għaż-Żgħażagħ – Tagħlim Taħriġ Xogħol”. Oh, so now I’m not menopausal or post-menopausal and hysterical.
Now I’m classified as Żgħażagħ.
“Matul dawn l-aħħar ġimgħat il-Partit Laburista poġġa l-edukazzjoni fuq quddiem nett tal-aġenda,” it begins. Fantastic, I said. That’s long, eh? Imagine that: a political party which has prioritised education for as long as the last few weeks. Amazing.
Damn shame they haven’t been prioritising education for the last 40 years. But I suppose we should be grateful they started thinking about it a few weeks ago at least. Things are looking up.
But I must say they need to get to grips with their public relations machine. The email includes a link to a YouTube video “bid-diskors ta’ Joseph” and mini interviews with others. The problem is that you can hear only Joseph, while the others open and shut their mouths silently like fishes in a bowl, while the music plays on.
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A bleak Sunday afternoon. The wind is howling and it seems a few short gusts away from a downpour. Yet, I can’t stop laughing. I read your column in The Malta Independent on Sunday and now I’m going through these posts.
Keep them coming. They light up a bleak Sunday afternoon and a bleak political outlook.
At any rate, the posters accompanying this “l-edukazzjoni l-ewwel” campaign (about bloody time, I would say) are bluer than today’s sky and my mood put together. Not even one small red speckle. Nothing.
No lollipop ice-cream cone which doubles up as the new arma either distinguishes this poster from that of any other movement.
Well, it was affixed to the Floriana PL club facade but apart from that, it really didn’t show what it was trying to promote. Perhaps, they do feel cheats to try to smuggle the idea into our heads that PL really cares about education and using a blue background to boot, so, perhaps, they tried to leave themselves, out of the equation.
Or perhaps they do not have the gall to publicly say that they support education. Otherwise, they would be adding grist to the PN’s mill.
Be that as it may, I am getting the feeling that PL is afraid that if it shows itself in public it loses support rather than gain it. But then, they are not really far off the mark, now, are they?
The morons recorded the voice on the left channel only so if you’re listening to it in stereo, turn the left speaker on.
The only policy they have proposed so far – the one about the Garanzija – was drafted by the European Socialists.
Why is it that I think that it may entail an obligation on private business to carry the cost (read tax) of that guarantee, in the form of some compulsory placing of trainees?
The only other solution I see is that Labour plans to reintroduce the Fabbriki tal-Kappar.
Garanzija għaż-Żgħażagħ – Tagħlim. Taħriġ. Xogħol. Kappar.
Would Joseph kindly clarify if the student – worker scheme (brain child of his hero Dom Mintoff), the closure of private schools, the ghoxrin-punt scheme, and the skejjel tas-snajja were bad education policies? He can use hindsight, of course.
May I remind Joseph that in 1987, the number of students at university was 700, compared to 12,000 today. A generation missed out on their tertiary education.
Twenty-five years on, and Malta still lags behind the European average of students continuing with their tertiary education, notwithstanding that the university numbers have increased seventeen-fold.
If there is one area that Labour should be ashamed and red-faced about it’s their track record in education.
Did Ing Joe Sammut, who according to his LInkedIn profile is presently Project Leader at Life Sciences Centre, MCST (and past Chief Officer at Malta Enterprise and involved in the BioMalta Park) give them permission to use his, most probably taken out of context, phrase as part of an election campaign?
As the Prime Minister pointed out, Labour’s guarantee to the 16 year-olds is an idea of the PES – the European Socialist Party.
We can now say that the only proposal that Joseph Muscat has been able to come up with till now is truly “Made in Brussels.”
When I bought an electric kettle it came with a guarantee printed with its terms and exclusions.
So I am going to vote Labour, on the promise of a guarantee which I cannot read or know what it consists of and so is worth less than the paltry investment made on the kettle.
Where are the terms and conditions of the guarantee? Do I get to see a copy, or do I go on past performance?
My father – who died two and a half years ago – received the booklet by post.
Someone needs to update their contact list.
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