“If energy plan fails, I go”
That’s what Joseph Muscat said yesterday night, in his new igloo.
I couldn’t believe it. I mean, how insulting is that? How egocentric is that?
How will it help Malta in any way at all if Joseph Muscat leaves when his energy plan fails? If his energy plan fails, the results will be catastrophic, truly catastrophic, and the political fate of one man will be totally irrelevant.
Why would we care what happens to him with all that to deal with?
This gives such insight into his shameless, egocentric nature. At almost 40, he still thinks it’s all about him, and while that single-mindedly selfishness and lack of self-doubt have helped him get to the top of his party and probably to the top of the country, to get the job done more is required.
What he is saying here, effectively, is that his big, single incentive for making the plan work is not losing his job. Not the chaos he risks causing to Malta, not the giant problems in public finances, not the economic difficulties, not the breaking of EU law for which we will be fined and disciplined, not the environmental hazards and the bypassing of laws, rules and regulations – no, what drives him is that if he fails, he’ll lose his position as party leader and PM.
Incredible.
The self-centred jerk misses the most important point too: if his cunning plan fails, he won’t have to go. He’ll be voted out, or kicked out by his own stupid party, if they have the guts to do it.
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Was it Cromwell who said ” In God’s name, GO”?
No it was not, as far as I can remember. But, even if he did, Cromwell did more than just saying that – he had his legitimate King’s head chopped off. Now we do not wish that to happen to il-ginger, do we!
On checking Wikipedia, I have found that it was actually he who said that. Apologies for lack of prior verification.
The people of Marsaxlokk have appropriately raised a middle finger to Joseph and Konrad’s proposal, or so it seems.
We still haven’t been told where we’ll be sourcing our gas.
Since we’ve been given, black on white, a price per unit of electricity, this must have been decided already.
Not to be anal about it, but it determines our foreign policy and is uber-important.
Baxxter, its a question you should ask of Alex Sceberras Trigona.
Remember, our foreign policy must feed into the budget.
No, seriously. I say again, they’re WAY out of their depth here.
Because that power plant may use gas from the Gulf. And we’ve a stake in the EU and NATO’s anti-piracy mission.
And Labour said, long ago, that it will withdraw Malta from the EUMC and NATO planning through PfP.
If they’re sourcing it from Algeria, who do we side with? Bouteflika?
Do they even know where Algeria is on the map?
And will they support action in Mali across the border to Algeria, when Bouteflika is adamantly opposed?
I mean do you see how it’s all linked and how you need real brains to run a country?
Baxxter, wasn’t it China that was supplying Gaddafi with container loads of weapons during the uprising via Algeria?
Correct me if I’m wrong.
I mean, the impression I got yesterday was not to worry how they’ll do it. It’s sorted.
I’ll check, Jozef.
If it’s sorted, then can they please make it public? We’ll be, er, voting for this plan in a few weeks. Being told the plan is the least we can expect.
Our dependence on Chinese coal and Libyan oil shaped our foreign policy for forty years. Then we started to diversify, and won some precious elbow room. PN decided connect us to the European energy grid and suddenly our foreign policy shackles were lifted. We will be reconnected to Europe in a fundamental way, far deeper than EU legislation.
Joseph Muscat’s plan is a major shift in energy policy. It will also be a shift in foreign policy. For the love of god, we need to know.
For the love of self, Baxxter, you’re not alone.
Muscat’s smug non-replies are maddening not least because they show his:
1. contempt for the elecorate whose members are supposed to vote him into power and do themselves in on the basis of his not answering basic questions;
2. contempt for his party members who have been drilled to say they’ll answer questions fil-hin propizju (thin cover for the fact that they don’t know much themselves);
3. contempt for the IQ level of his critics who are not supposed to notice his cosying up to People Who Shall Not Be Named, or allowing them to cosy up to him.
Let’s take a wild guess: a communist country that has given capitalism free reign in the name of The People, is buying up Africa, has the US in its foreign debt vice, already owns most of Asia, wants a lever in EU affairs, and stores a secret weapon in Malta, offers a bottomless well of finance to a short-sighted megalomaniac with designs on the premiership of an island that is conveniently in the EU.
Cetta’s bills are magicked down to 9c6 per unit, the megalomaniac gets to be PM, the financier gets a grip on Europe and the brokers get their fat fees.
Everyone who matters is happy, and the rest of us go to hell.
Interesting, because China’s ever-growing natural gas demands means it is a net importer. But it has its eyes on Algeria. Are they planning on turning Malta into a natural gas hub for the med? Algeria to Turkey via Malta?
Now CAN someone please ask these questions at a press conference? Daphne, please.
He will not let his plan fail so he will not lose his job, that’s what he’s trying to tell us. He’ll keep at it even to the detriment of our livelihood. Same as happened with Alfred Sant’s stunt of removing VAT.
Another obvious gimmick. Politicians only resign when they do too much damage to their party or become aliability. What they have done for the country, good or bad, doesn’t enter the equation.
If Konrad is elected, fil-parlament ser jikbru l-fjuri.
Dear Joseph, Can you please leave before your energy plan fails and save all us lesser mortals (and our children and grandchildren) having to pick up the pieces of an unmitigated disaster.
Show us your magnanimity with an act unprecedented in Maltese political history and leave, before it is too late.
Mela ser thallieh il- mara.
Perhaps I am missing something here, but since when is it a good idea to take water and electricity out of the hands of the people?
These are vital to people’s lives. When in the hands of a government then things are kept as cheap as possible since politicians will have a huge vested interest in making sure it all goes well because then they will be voted out.
But in the hands of undemocratically elected investors, who will only want to make a profit, we will be at their mercy since they will have a monopoly over the whole service.
Perhaps we should all look into what has happened in places like Detroit for example, where they privatized water and ruined people’s lives.
Keep water and electricity in the hands of the people.
Berlusconi used to say the same on the eve of every election.
Sounds like if things don’t go his way, he has no moral compunction and is happy to walk way away from difficult situations, effectively abdicating his duties and responsibilities: an attitude which does not bode well.
Dear Joseph you seem to be one of the few who do not realize that your plan is a disaster so please do the honorable thing and just go now before the damage is done.
It is very foolish of Joseph Muscat to make such a declaration.
It doesn’t make the project more viable as it is proposed.
Muscat says;“If energy plan fails, I go”
Well, at least we know that the coming cloud has a silver lining
Deo Gratitas et Maria.
The captain has already declared that he will abandon shop if the vessel starts taking in water.
More Francesco Schettino than Edward Smith.
Just what Malta needs.
Now that is responsibility.
If things go wrong, Joseph Muscat will abandon ship. And that’s a promise, not a threat.
He will NOT fail to decrease the price of water and electricity. He will keep his word (ta’ ragel). Just like Alfred Sant kept his word. (He was his poodle after all). What will happen is that we will have to pay other taxes so as to keep him in government!
This Labour scam is equivalent to common internet scams.
Poor old labour 15 years in opposition and did not come with a concrete plan regards the main aspects of our lives.
Labour used to criticise government for giving free energy saving lamps. Now labour is promising free water tap reducers and incentives for green energy. These promises are not sufficient to vote for change.
Captain Joseph Mu-schettino