Lawrence Gonzi: live broadcast press conference on NET TV right now
If you’re watching via NET TV on demand (mychoice.pn), please carry on posting comments here. This is a press conference on the Nationalist Party’s electoral programme. The proposals being discussed are not the full content of the electoral programme by far.
PM says that there are more to come in the days that follow.
What I’ve noted so far:
Three years of income tax exemption and national insurance credits for women who return to work (after home-making/raising children) by starting up their own business
Three (?) years of income tax exemption and national insurance credits for those who have been unemployed for some time, but who start up their own business
No succession tax on property transfer or inheritance, from parents to children, and that means any property whatsoever and not just the primary residence as specified in the last budget
Childcare vouchers for parents in paid work: these would allow parents the freedom of choice between a state childcare centre and a private one “because we don’t believe that the state should interfere in parents’ choices in this field”
Changes to ‘sick leave’ law to allow parents to use their own sick leave, instead of taking holiday leave, when they stay at home with a child who is unwell
If free medicines are temporarily not in stock at the state pharmacy, you can buy them at your local pharmacy and receive a full refund
If the medicine your medical consultant thinks is best for you, better than the one on the ‘free list’, is not actually on that ‘free list’, you will be able to get a full refund with a sign-off from your specialist
A new state school to be built every year
Yearly cost of living increases for student stipends
Students will receive national insurance credits – training programmes and university study now takes people into their late 20s, which means they are at a disadvantage with the pensions reform that means they have to pay national insurance for 40 years instead of 30 like previous generations. So NI credits will start when they are at university and not when they begin working and have to make the payments themselves
Electricity will be cheaper at night (10pm to 6am), so we can set our washing-machines, dishwashers, tumbledryers etc on a timer (if we go to bed before 10pm, that is) and have everything done more cheaply, and it will also be very beneficial to factories working on night-shifts
Incentive programmes for those who install environmentally sound sources of power, like PV panels
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The prime minister has just pointed out something that I’d missed: that Labour isn’t offering free childcare to all, but only to those women who work full-time. Most women with young children prefer to work part-time.
I like the point he just made: that the Labour power station plan is utterly crazy and that no sensible political party would even begin to consider it, because those two vast gas storage tanks are placed right next to a power station. If there is a gas explosion, the power station will blow up, putting it out of service for months. Aside from the disruption to private life at home, think of the consequences to industry.
Now he’s giving some strong criticism of Joseph Muscat’s promise to hand out free tablets to eight-year-olds. He said that’s not the way to make people IT literate. He describes an incident from one of his visits to a primary school, when he sat down to talk to a little girl who had a copy-book open in front of her. She slapped it closed immediately he sat next to her. “What do you have there, some secret?” the PM asked. “Yes,” she said, “My password.”
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There’s a journalist asking a question now who seems to think that a woman’s job is to hang around the house all day doing the laundry (and she’s a woman herself). ‘What’s the point of having cheaper electricity at night when most people use the bulk of electricity during the day?’ Buy this girl a timer, or explain to her, please, that it’s perfectly all right to put a load into the washing-machine before you go to bed and hang it up to dry in the morning. I’ve been doing that for more than two decades. And our dishwasher always gets switched on after 10pm anyway, after being filled up all day. I don’t use a tumbledryer anymore, but when I did, in the days of 20 pairs of jeans and 50 wet towels, I let it run at night.
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That fifth-rate brain from Super One, David Anthony Gatt, can’t understand why households and businesses will receive lower utilities bills with what, in the rest of the civilised world, is known as a ‘night tariff’.
Right now he’s barracking the prime minister from the back of the room, heckling and interrupting and saying that the prime minister hasn’t answered his question.
David Anthony Gatt makes it obvious he lives at home with mummy, who does everything. He doesn’t know how to run a household, and being Labour, he probably has no idea how businesses work, either.
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Most 14 year olds would have one anyway.
And where is the money coming from.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130124/elections-news/labour.454521
As far as I know, Year 4 is in primary school, so that’s when you’re just about 8 years old.
Not too mention, iPads and tablets in general have been designed to make them as idiot proof as possible. Using one does not make you IT literate.
Useless without a wifi connection as well.
Well and good. But why doesn’t he mention the fact that all of the proposals put forward by the Labour Party are items that the PN government has either already put in place or already put forward prior to the election campaign.
The PN is not talking enough about the work that it has done. This is not done via home visits but proper programmes at prime time.
Hmm.. Let me see… Get a free iPad or start a business… Get a free iPad or start a business… Get a free iPad or start a business… Too much of a hassle. I think I’ll just sit back and enjoy Joey’s freebies.
Message to JosephMuscat2013:
No Jobs. No Apple(s).
Esteve, imma “tablet” jigifieri ha jaghti mistura b’ xejn lit-tfal tal-Primarja?
Wow! This man means business and this is truely FUTUR FIS-SOD.
These measures show that we really have secure finances and it is really tackling our everyday needs.
I am so so proud to give my vote to this man again. True fact and necessities and not a silly tablet for year 4 kids.
Now how about that, you ‘disgruntled Nationalists’? Are you ready to lose all this for some petty issue? Think twice.
“Three years of income tax exemption and national insurance credits for women who return to work (after home-making/raising children) by starting up their own business.” Great incentive. Some solid proposals at last.
The only way PN can win this election is by pulling another stunt Orlando / Sant.
Gonzi / Simon won’t work..
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Finally we are hearing a proper speech!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fpQrV0-JcVs
Joseph’s claiming that he’ll give a tablet to each child in “year 4″…had to point this out.
How is Muscat going to finance all those freebies? I thought he said Malta’s bankrupt and the economy is in ruins.
[Daphne – Tghid mhux se jhallasomlu Sandro Chetcuti? Redikoli.]
Jeez, what a hell of a difference between the (two main) leaders. It seems that one’s frolicking with Lucy in the sky with diamonds while the other has his feet planted on solid ground (and thank God for the latter).
PN’s proposals are more sound and realistic…by far.
About f**king time, they finally started.
I thought they wouldn’t wake up from their slumber.
Low electricity rates at night – fantastic. Finally I will be rewarded for something I do out of habit anyway. That is only if the Labour chap at Water Services stops shutting our water supply on the eve of EVERY election.
About time? Lawrence Gonzi was already indicating some true proposals for Gozo for instance for the past eight days at least.
Yes but it wasn’t enough – sorry to disagree. They seemed to be mainly reacting not acting and that is a bad tactic in politics.
Have a heart.
He has the impossible task of trying to guess what will appeal to the floating voters.
Lower rates at night is fantastic news for me.
Like most working women I do the bulk of my housework late in the evening. This will reduce my bill even further.
Sasha, it’s a looong process. You must have all Malta’s meters changed to smart meters. You must have the cable supplying us from the European network commissioned and only then you can have off-peak rates.
Keep in mind that government last year subsidised our electricity by some €35 million.
I wouldn’t be surprised that electricity rates will be higher for careless people.
If on the other hand one times his washing machine to start at say 01:00 in the morning when off peak rate is 77% the normal rate, than he’s bound to have a good reduction on his utility bill.
Gonzi does not like to squander money. Look at his track record and you’ll find that he encourages thrift and punishes waste. It’s ingrained in him. Look at the campaign.
The off peak rates do not at all need the cable. Night rates already exist today, but only for industrial/commercial users.
The whole idea of off peak rates is an incentive to reduce the unbalance of load between day and night. Normally power stations are under utilised at night and need to have extra capacity to cope with the much higher demand during the day.
The night rates help to somewhat even out that unbalance, reducing the need for extra capacity and also allowing the power station to work more efficiently during the night. Result is lower overall cost of production as well as lower cost to the end user.
I’m reduced to hoping that if the PL get elected they WON’T carry out their electoral programme.
Me too, and as well as implementing the PN budget I hope they implement the PN electoral promises too.
The initiatives I heard so far can go under one heading – heard the PM mentioning it: empowerment. To grow and succeed if one may/wants – that is what distinguishes PN from LP. Brilliant.
Power to the people!
You’re right of course.
What I found slightly amusing is that while Muscat borrowed from Miliband’s “one-nation” conference speech, Gonzi seems to have borrowed slightly from Cameron’s response to that – his strivers’ speech.
The amusing bit, of course, is that Muscat is lifting ideas and speeches to which there are already clear answers and rebuttals.
The night tariff and timed appliances is the fundamental criterion in the Westphalia model. The German region is the most advanced set on its target, total energetic autonomy and self-sufficiency.
It’s not something exclusive to Northern countries though, Puglia is also on its way to becoming Italy’s green economy. The result being that it is now the richest region in the south, in line with the industrialised north.
Power management to the people. Malta, sized to achieve the goal in less time, can go for it.
It’s about commitment and the will to get there.
Beppe Grillo would be pleased.
The UK have had ‘economy 7’ reduced tariff at night for decades.
I’m not suprised, bystander.
What the Germans have done is to create a network over the internet where homes are wired to a central processor, people trading energy credits to reduce external supply to the bare minimum.
They’ve expanded on the smart homes concept.
In Puglia, they’ve explored the generating aspect where private installations are used to their best efficiency as well as recycling organic waste integrating it into the renewables system.
The region, known for its agricultural products, going for incineration wasn’t coherent with the image. They produce some of the best olive oil you can get.
Similar to Sargas’s original proposal, but true to the definition of biopaste, and not as they told us an undefined ‘mix’
The other fundamental difference being the size of plants, small, owned and managed by agricultural companies themselves, careful not to create articial demand for fuel.
The intelligence is in the monitoring of the waste flow and its dependence on SME’s.
That’s a great comment.
This is the reason why people with some brains have made a success of their lives, while others wallow in their mediocrity in spite of being given the tools to walk away from their present life.
PN does give power to the people.
The PM is wrong on the labour proposal about childcare being offered only to full time mums. The labour party is offering PRO RATA use of childcare to part time mums
http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20130124-gonzi-yardstick-completely-outshines-malta
How’s this for completely missing the point. By definition a yardstick is something that you aspire to measure up to.
How´s this for being completely unable to understand anything but the simplest of English vocab. What on earth do they think a yardstick means?
Is that use of ‘yardstick’ even correct? I would only use that word to refer to some accepted standard rather than to refer to a role model.
Heavens above! They are incapable even of SPEAKING. How, oh how did we end up with this future government?
Anthony David Gatt: an example of Labour ignorance + arrogance.
Is he panicking?
He’s aspiring to be the great leader in 10 years time.
All this “free” stuff is becoming unbearable. I wish we would stop leaning so much to the left for votes, but a lot of the Maltese population always looks for what they can get for free.
The removal of inheritance tax on ALL property inherited/transferred to children is indeed very good news.
This is one move from which the vast majority of Maltese families will benfit from seeing that most families own their own home or other property be it a shack in the middle of a field, a garage, town-house, flat in a housing estate or villa.
Well done Mr Prime Minister.
In fact I used to think that tax on inherited property was rather unfair. Well done, PM.
This great proposal means that heirs will not end up having to take out a bank loan to pay for the tax either.
This means great peace of mind for ageing parents and their children who may already be cashstrapped with loans of their own and a young family to bring up.
This proposal does not mean a few piddly euros extra a week but up to several hundreds and thousands of Euros saved, money that can go back into the economy to increase economic well being or that can be earmarked for some sort of tiny investment.
The night tariff proposal is the best of the lot. It’s a system used in many countries, and savings can be made.
As you have pointed out, Daphne, washing machines, airconditioners and dishwashers can all be put on timers and switched on at night. So can a water heater, for a hot shower and shave in the morning.
Imagine the benefits of this incentive to the hospitality industry.
Dawn tal-Labour vera shortsighted.
Spot on Daphne & WhoamI as for instance I mainly use the AC at night.
These are the things which build up the figures.
Connect to a PV, garner enough energy, manage its flow, share it at its most convenient and kill the extra capacity lost so loved by Labour.
The secret is energetic fragmentation, offsetting losses and modular power generation which can never be matched to demand.
It will also kick off another cluster, smart homes, software and enhance our ability to perspective. The challenge is to acknowledge we have no resources, except ourselves.
This PM has always been into the paradigm shift required to move forward. It’s necessary, as there’s no other way.
One question. When will Dr Gonzi, if elected, deliver these electoral comminttments? One month before the next elections perhaps. This is what he did with the tax reductions he promised in 2008.
[Daphne – Night tariffs: 2014.]
Night tariffs are my kind of policy. They put the onus of the choice on the end user. That’s liberalism. Where it’s not just the government that’s doing the thinking. Besides, our fellow European countries have had them for ages, and as always, I hate being the exception.
Fine. All washing machines to be turned on after 10.00pm. Ironing at midnight and baking in electric ovens after 1.00 am. Defrost your bacon in the micro at 5.00, in time for breakfast.
[Daphne – Not only are you pathetic, but you have scant knowledge of how households are run nowadays. Incidentally, people who work (read women) do end up doing the ironing at 10pm. And exactly why do you freeze your bacon? Bacon is preserved already. That’s why it’s bacon. You should keep it in the fridge, not the freezer.]
Imagine building a new power station, gas storage tanks and suffering Joseph Muscat PM for at least five years just so you can defrost your bacon in a microwave oven.
Stingray, I happen to switch on my A/Cs all night long between 10pm and 6am in summer – as do most people I know. I sure have welcomed this proposal.
Do you not work, Stingray?
I do most of my coffee-making, flushing, heating, cooling, sangwicc-making and lighting at the workplace.
I’d have used my electric kettle for a maximum of five minutes for my morning coffee and porridge.
Then I go back home and use a tiny amount of electricity to heat my gruel, wash my shreddies, and heat my water for the post-sweat shower. Then I switch everything off for Ritienne-time.
So it’s actually my employer who pays most of my electricity bills.
Tee hee hee. The money I save, I can spend on absinthe.
‘Thank you for all you do to keep us going’.
You should really start charging a fee.
Stingray, most working women who want to dedicate their off time to their children always end up doing most chores (especially those done by machines) during the evening and sometimes throughout the night.
I would make massive savings if the reduced night tariffs were introduced, not to mention the fact that in summer there’s the air conditioner to run.
Sorry I forgot to factor for my tumble dryer which takes some time and energy to dry our wash on a damp winter day. Now that would keep my poor wife awake all night. And yes Daphne we do not freeze our bacon but we do buy frozen bacon sometimes.
[Daphne – You haven’t been housetrained at all, have you, Stingray. Let’s start with the tumble-dryer. 1. It makes no difference whether it’s a damp winter’s day or a hot summer’s day. Your tumbledryer will take exactly the same time to dry exactly the same load. If you have a two-in-one (the same machine washes and dries) then your laundry load doesn’t even touch the air outside: it goes straight from wash to dry. 2. You do not actually have have to babysit a tumbledryer (or a washing machine) as it is doing its job. The system is automatic. You switch it on, and let it operate alone. You can leave the house while it tumbledries. Or you can go to bed. 3. Why is the laundry your wife’s responsibility? Even if the machine needed to be sat with, why would it be your ‘poor wife’ who has to do that? I thought Laburisti were meant to be liberal and progressive. 4. The fact that some supermarkets place their bacon in the freezer rather than the chiller does not mean that you have to do the same. Buy it frozen, then put it in the fridge. As I explained (carefully), bacon is preserved. That’s what makes it bacon. It does not rot unless you leave it exposed in the heat for days. So when your ‘poor wife’ brings home the frozen bacon – I am assuming you do no shopping – just place it in the fridge and pull out your slice every morning. No need for any naff and horrid microwaving.]
I’m Jewish so it saves me all the trouble. Yeah!
Most importantly Gonzi avoided silly jokes, sarcasm and self-satisfied smirks (all hallmarks of Joseph’s speaking style) and talked from first-hand experience, off the cuff while dishing out numbers, dates and statistics aas though they were available at the touch of a button though they were not.
No teleprompters with this man.
And when he talks about information technology, he talks like an expert in the field and not somebody parroting something he’s been told. The PM can take a computer apart and rebuild it from scratch.
He stayed until ALL journalists put their numerous questions, didn’t dismiss them because he had a more important appointment elsewhere, and he gave sound, logical, level-headed, detailed explanations.
He knows the ropes.
Night tariffs are also of huge benefit to the tourism industry.
Tourists at night either return to their hotel rooms or go to bars, restaurants etc.
And we have to remember that it is not only tourists who enjoy the night life.
ST’s assembly line operates 24/7
If disgruntled Nationalists and floaters remain unmoved by the PN’s excellent proposals then Malta is in a very sorry state.
Readers should realise that that the SuperOne reporter asking the prime minister highly loaded questions could be our prime minister in 2025.
That’s how it was with Joseph Muscat.
“Vote for the ultra-renovated Labour”
“Vote for Anthony David Gatt”
He will solemnly state without batting an eye that Gonzi was right in 2013 and, with hand on heart, that he honestly can’t recall who Joseph Muscat was.
The new movement will be called anthonydavidgatt.com
Vote Josephmuscat.com
Il-passat hu garanzija tal-futur.
Kemm ihobbom il-vouchers.
[Daphne – You, on the other hand, prefer state-mandated bossiness and socialist Hobson’s choice.]
Both are ridiculous. Public places = free, private you pay for it from your money. Does the social ladder no longer exist?
Yeah don’t we all, but the difference is that the PN will give you vouchers so you are able to choose whilst MLP used to give you vouchers or better known by the latter as ration to get some 100 grams of kunserva and an old whisky bottle full of cheap oil to cook your chips.
What kind of people are you anyway?
I believe that you should work and earn what you need. I am against socialism and by the way just in case you are confused, a PN supporter.
Ideas like:
Three (?) years of income tax exemption and national insurance credits for those who have been unemployed for some time, but who start up their own business
Are excellent and exactly what the country needs. Not the government financing private businesses.
Also to be honest why should a person who cannot afford to send their children to a private child care centre have the right to?
A whole press conference and this is all th criticism you can come up with, mandango70?
As the prime Minister remarked, today’s pupils are already IT literate and free tablets won’t improve the situation.
What will happen is that tablets will further distract children from their studies – children use them mainly to play computer games. Or they will end up in their parents’ hands and used for other purposes, unrelated to education, like posting inane remarks on Facebook.
It would have been better to offer specialised free IT courses to children and their parents but this, to a certain extent, is already a reality.
However, I admit that this proposal is not ‘cool’ enough for josephmuscat.com and ‘tablets b’xejn’ is more appetising than ‘korsijiet b’xejn’.
Too socialist, and too many freebies to the economically unproductive. And once again, my demographic has been passed over.
But I’m still not voting Labour. Just for the record.
My, my, what a contrast.
For almost three weeks the reds have asaulted us with the ‘Blunderbuss Approach’ to campaigning, Promise everything to everyone, Pipedreams, lies, and bullshit.
Today we have the PN ‘Sharpshooting, Rifle Shot Approach’. Pick your specific target, aim carefully and hit the bullseye.
Blunderbuss vs Sharpshooter.
Blunder vs Sharp.
Take your pick..
A lean mean fighting machine Harry.
What am I missing in the “free-tablet” discussion?
Muscat promises one for all year four students, which Dr. Gonzi criticizes as being of no purpose, then announces that the PN will be giving them to all primary and secondary pupils.
I couldn’t watch the speech unfortunately, maybe that would have made things clearer. Can you clarify, Daphne?
[Daphne – I missed both.]
Muscat : free tablets for all form four students,ideally sponsored by the private sector.No elaborations.(€1.5million)
Gonzi : free tablets for all students and teaching staff, teachers have to communicate with the same language of the students Gonzi explained. Maltese authors who write books will be paid/compensated for their copyrights. No entertainment apps on these tablets only educational material.(€5 million)
I see the advantage of having less to carry in the schoolbag. My daughter carries a Kindle for reading(?)and an Apple note book(?) which she bought with the student card. Books remain at home .
I like the night tariff proposal. Switch on your geyser from 2am to 6am and you have hot water all day – or at most you will maybe need a top-up for an hour at aorund 6-7pm.
Right we only switch on the geyser (through a timer) for max five hours a day and four of those hours are from 2am – 6am.
Min irid tablets b’xejn min fuq dar it-tax payer ghal uliedu, imur jahdem ghalihom hu u ma jonfoqomx sigaretti, lottu jew jew take-away junk food.
EXACTLY!
Agreed. Din tat-tablets hija spiza bla sens. Ahjar jaghtik ebook library account imhallas mill-gvern. Differenza sottili izda importanti.
I love the idea of having “tax deductibles”. For example if you chose to not use the public school system and private school. All fees can go against your income and you don’t pay tax on that amount.
Alas, they did not include what should be the greatest tax deductible of all: private health insurance and pensions schemes. We need SimonCare, say in 2015.
Coming up soon: free tampons for women.
I believed Dr Gonzi when he said, ‘My best is yet to come’.
Although I haven’t been impressed by the PN campaign so far, I must say today Dr Gonzi has surpassed my expectations.
I think that the suggested change to the law regarding sick-leave is unfair to employers, leaving room open for abuse.
I say this to my own detriment, being a part-timer myself, and a mother of two young children.
As things are, some people generally tend to see sick-leave as an extension of their leave, so such people will have a field-day should the law come into effect.
Such a law is detrimental to employers. It would probably also make employers think twice before employing parents (especially mothers) of young children, defeating the purpose of the proposed law itself.
Parents are more likely to save their sick leave in case something happens to their children and they will need it then hence one can look at the proposal from a different angle.
PL came out with mad proposals.
Instead of being responsible and down to earth the Prime Minister decided to be even crazier!! Have both parties made a pact with the devil to drive this country into a wall or what? Is this a race to who manages to make Malta insolvent quicker cos thats exactly what it seems!
SHAME.
Cheaper electricity bills during the night means that I can leave the air conditioner on during summer nights. Perfect.
Freebie tablets for kids is fine. I bet freebie Viagra tablets for the elderly is next. Let’s all catch the gravy train while it’s rolling through.
Malta taghna ukoll.
“There’s a journalist asking a question now who seems to think that a woman’s job is to hang around the house all day doing the laundry (and she’s a woman herself). ”
Din bis-serjeta’?
It makes sense to have time-related electricity tariffs and the reasons are pretty obvious.
I have been using appliances after 10:00 p.m. for the last 8 years and I have always thought it does not make sense that in Malta we do not have time-related tariffs.
Now that the infrastructure seems to be in place, I do not see why we shouldn’t. If for no other reason, to steer away demand from peak hours to off-peak hours.
Din tat-tablets hija hmerija mill-kbar. As if illiteracy and the digital divide will be solved by giving tablets to children. If children are computer literate, they would have already been exposed to gadgets at home.
Children teach US how to use certain gadgets and the children’s ability to learn how to use a brand-new gadget is uncanny.
If a child is not digitally-literate at age 8-9, then he needs something much more than a tablet.
When I hear these things, I confirm how gimmick-happy these people are. HP Baxxter’s comment on e-library is spot-on. That is the resource we should invest in: to get people to read more and, ideally, not Fifty Shades of Grey (Gray?).
…but Lawrence Gonzi doesn’t seem to have heard that accidents NEVER happen. Thou shalt not explode, the eleventh commandment, brought down from Burmarrad on an i-tablet.
Yes, and concrete poured by Labour will set faster because Louis said so.
This upcoming election is extremely important for our future.
The people must realize that if MLP gets into government the old timers of the party will take Malta out of the EU.
This can’t happen for our future and our childrens’ future. I appeal to those people who are considering taking a risky chance voting for MLP.
With the PN victory Malta will get more integrated in the EU with more business/jobs will be heading our way.
By 2018 the old anti- EU Labour MPs will be out for good. Hopefully, by then the MLP will cleanse their anti-EU feeling. As of now they are a threat.
Il-partit ta’ Franco se johrog bl-offerta ta’ mobile phone ghal-kullhadd.
Idoqq ukoll meta jkun mitfi.
FreeTalktime ghal-hames snin.
Kemm se jiehu ghalih, kulhadd kkupjah mbaghad remieh. Mamma mia.
This comment has got nothing to do directly with the Prime Minister’s press conference. But I would be glad if you can publish it.
Last Monday The Times published my letter asking for clarification regarding the 25% reduction promised by the Labour Movement. It was something like this.
We know that Water and Electricity bills comprise 5 main (at least mine has 5 items): Rent for Electiricty meter; rent for Water meter; consumption for Electricity; consumption for Water and I also have an item called Eco reduction.
I would like to know: the 25% reduction that Labour are promising would this be on the total due for the whole pertiod? or will it exclude the meter charges? Will it also exclude the Eco reduction? Would this mean the the promised reduction by Labour is going to be on the Consumption less the eco reduction? i.e. net concumption?
That was the letter. Since Monday nearly 4 days, not one of the MLP apologists such as Eddy Privitera and bella compagnia, including Konrad Mizzi were able to come up with an answer.
This simple non answer until today took them nearly 4 days to come up with,. Imagine they want to build and run a power station in 2 years.
The 25% is an average decrease on the generation of electricity, ie consumption. This can be deduced by the fact that it will come about as a result of efficiencies in production and cheaper cost gas. Supposedly.
It will not be applied to the rent of the meter reader. That rental compensates the depreciation on the equipment at home and all connections to the homes. it also covers maintenance etc of assets.
The Eco benefit reduce the bill and compensates the careful users. I should hope that that will not reduce.
Muscat jirkeb fuq il-karettun ta’ haddiehor. Irid jipprovdi ghal work-life balance li gie introdott mill-gvern Nazzjonalista permezz ta’ mizuri ta’ telework, flexihours, reduced hours etc.
Qatt ma rajt bniedem sfaccatament viljakk daqshekk.
It’s utterly clear who’s into materialistic wants instead of material needs.
The PN is up to scratch where maturity to consumption is the new cool.
Labour’s years behind, brands and their vulgar use to create some ill conceived category of passive consumers.
It doesn’t matter what the interface can do in hands of a human intelligence, it’s the logo that will make them smart.
Sustainable development isn’t their forte. The multiple ramifications and layering of its meaning doesn’t register with them.
Too complicated, dangerous even, how dare the electorate be given the responsibility for a vision’s execution?
Car parks, concrete, tanks, obnoxious use of technology (when the idea should be to render it invisible), are the products of a testosterone driven mind.
No wonder they cannot cotton on to the interconnector and the pipeline, too much to consider them umbilical cords.
By the look of things, some people would make us think that they go to sleep at 9.00pm and wake up at 7.00 am.
During the interim period, pilot lamps are off, their freezers and refrigerators don’t work, and luckily for them they don’t wake up to pass water.
So will this list of promises be added to the OTHER unfullfiled ones?
With the PN`s proposal for a night tariff, use of heating and air-conditioning appliances during the night will also be much cheaper.
For the benefit of those Labour supporters who are mocking night tariffs:
“Muscat said that apart from cheaper and cleaner power generation, a Labour government would introduce night tariffs and would not allow consumers to be burdened with Enemalta inefficiencies.”
Maltastar – Saturday, 26 Nov 2011
http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20111126-cheaper-and-cleaner-energy
I have just one small request to make of Joseph Muscat.
Tablets. Cyanide tablets.
For when he’s elected.
The night tariffs are a God-send to large industries, supermarkets and small businesses and working women who have to catch up with their housework late at night.
It is also convenient for heating up the house during the cold winter nights and for switching on the AC during the hot August nights.