Go, Muscat, Go
This lantern reminds me of someone
From The Times:
Labour leader Joseph Muscat today met Go employees at the Bulebel industrial zone. These workers were worried because their job was under threat and they were being offered early retirement schemes.
Maybe he should tell them that mass lay-offs with little or no severance pay are a whole lot more worrying than something as deeply threatening as the offer of an early retirement scheme.
Go is now a private company. I trust that Muscat is not considering a return to the 1980s, when private companies were prevented by law from laying off workers, even if they didn’t have the income to pay their wages.
If Go needs to shed the excess baggage accumulated by Maltacom as government after government accommodated galloppini, then so be it.
There’s more. Muscat is both directly and indirectly responsible for some of the erosion of Go’s bottom line, at least if his claim of having forced a reduction to roaming charges is to be believed. And over and above that, he set up an MVNO in competition with Go, using all the unfair advantage that a political party has over private sector competitors.
And then the little hypocrite takes a trip to Bulebel to emote with the distressed.
I have a solution for Joseph Muscat if he really wants to bolster Go and keep those people on the payroll: hand over Red Touch’s 13,000 subscribers and stop competing with Go.
But he won’t do that, will he – because with Labour it’s all about grabbity-grab.
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yes daphne but these words should have been said by the prime minister before the election, thats why those promises now are coming back to haunt him…..
Labour is the owner of Red Touch, which piggybacks on Vodafone and competes with GO.
Joseph Muscat helped increase the pressure for the early retirement of those GO employees by embracing the fight for cheaper roaming tariffs. This opportunist can’t have it both ways.
Soon he’ll be telling us that he’s going to employ them with Red Touch because it’s heading for “direzzjoni success “. Or maybe Labour is going to hand over Red Touch’s 13,000 “highly satisfied subscribers” to GO so that GO can keep those people on its payroll.
Joseph Muscat’s promises are all “gone with the wind” the very moment he utters them.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/3069618617_8881d5b709.jpg?v=0
“Tomorrow is another day”. We all know that. Come Monday and we will carry on with our normal lives and we will get our MEPs elected in alphabetical order as usual: ABELA Baldacchino Claudette, ATTARD Montalto John, and so on.
“The coalition does not care if you voted yes or no in the EU referendum. That is a story of the past.” – Muscat, clutching at straws, 03.06.09
( http://www.maltastar.com/pages/ms09dart.asp?a=2320 )
What coalition? Joseph Muscat is no longer the leader of the Labour Party but of a coalition that “will be making political history next Saturday”. He really is a pompous ass.
What Muscat doesn’t say, but implies, is more disturbing than what he says. He takes every opportunity to fan the flames whenever he sees a spark of discontent, just as Sant did before him. He implies that nasty things will not happen under his government, maybe because we will see a return to the nationalisation of companies like this, so that Labour can dump thousands of galloppini there, as they did with Enemalta, Air Malta and others – very progressive.
God forbid Malta’s employees should becomeg like those described by Muscat though. This is a quote from the Maltastar article quoted above:
“The coalition can also be a home for people who feel wasted on their workplace.”
Labour has become like my loft and man drawer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5qyJpAn2Wc
I also call it: “Refugium pecatorum”.