New prices announced today make fuel and gas more expensive than they were three years ago when Labour/the GWU demonstrated in the streets, but Tony Zarb is bingeing on turkey left-overs
Norman Vella has pointed out something interesting, on Facebook, which the rest of us have missed. The new fuel and gas prices announced today mean that they are now more expensive than they were in January 2011, when the General Workers Union directed its members, and the Labour Party encouraged its supporters to follow suit, into the streets to demonstrate.
When they demonstrated, diesel cost 15 cents a litre less than it does today. Unleaded petrol cost 12 cents a litre less, and gas cylinders cost Eur3.20 less than they do with the prices announced today.
But the government is now Labour, so obviously the Labour Party isn’t going to demonstrate and Tony Zarb is taken up with his turkey left-overs or maybe some of those nice cupcakes iced with the Malta Taghna Lkoll emblem that his daughter-in-law Mrs Elton Zarb Cocks is so good at baking.
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References:
Fuel Jan 2011 – http://www.enemalta.com.mt/newsDetails.aspx?id=17898
Gas Jan 2011 – http://gozonews.com/16097/january-gas-prices-rises-announced-by-liquigas-malta/
Protest Jan 2011 – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110103/local/pl-to-hold-national-protest-over-fuel-gas-price-increases.343737#.UsRzoYWp6So
January 2013 prices – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140101/local/prices-of-petrol-kerosene-gas-increase.501038#.UsR0coWp6So
Ah, but the government underlined the stability. For example the price of a 12kg gas cylinder is going to be stable at 90c more than it was in the last three months, during which period it was stable at Eur 1 over the price of the preceding 3 months.
Aren’t we meant to be grateful for this type of stability? Stability under a Labour government means you would get a higher price for a longer period. You get a guarantee that the price will not fall in the coming three months! Hip Hip, Hooray.
You see! Even Toni Zarb now calls this ‘peace of mind’ It doesn’t matter that the price is cumulatively higher. Laghqi.
And hardly a peep from the Labour crowd. If the PN were in government right now they’d be all up in arms – whilst blaming Gonzi for factors which are way beyond our control of course.
Don’t you mean fjuwil?
The PN should start copying MLP. Their ways in Opposition worked big time.
The PN needs to start being truly negative instead of just being falsely accused of it – or they are going to remain in the doldrums for a good decade or so?
The Maltese need it spelled out for them and drummed into them just like the PL did for 10 years. It’s that kind of society.
The Opposition needs to call the government out on every single blasted blunder, otherwise it might as well join the Joey Bandwagon and collaborate with him outright in exchange for some favours just as half of Malta seems to be doing right now, spineless swine that they are.
A Greek archipelago for €8.5m, a Maltese passport for €1m and Polish castles going for a song… welcome to the great European fire sale
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/a-greek-archipelago-for-85m-a-maltese-passport-for-1m-and-polish-castles-going-for-a-song-welcome-to-the-great-european-fire-sale-9032981.html
We hardly started 2014 and are already faced with an increase in fuel costs and car licences which is being blamed on the previous administration.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131231/local/higher-licence-fees-for-old-vans-trucks-from-tomorrow.500937#.UsT3LM3QQXw
My wife and I spend around €60 on fuel per week and purchase one gas cylinder every month.
That will boil down to a €3 increase in costs per month. We got €3.49 COLA wage increase out of which one tenth would be NI contribution and 32% tax deducted, that will leave us with €2.02 extra disposable income per week.
So out of my €8.75 extra disposable cash per month I already ended up with €5.75.
What we have not been told till now is by how much the fuel costs and prices at EneMalta have decreased. People expect that with Charles Mangion as chairman of EneMalta the oil procurement process is transparent and rendering more value for money to the corporation.
Qatta faccoli! And there are comments on the Times site attributing the increases to GonziPN! Unbelievable.
A fire sale!
http://www.independent.ie/business/world/european-fire-sale-greek-archipelago-for-85m-an-eu-passport-for-1m-and-polish-castles-for-a-song-29882895.html
Appropriate comment from timesofmalta.com on Jason Micallef’s brainwave of turning Strait Street into Paceville II:
“I cannot understand this “glamourizing” of Strait Street aka the “Gut”. It was nothing more than a mish-mash of seedy bars, doss-houses, ladies of the night, pimps and sailors spewing their guts out all over the place due to the cheap so-called moonshine alcohol, sundry fights between sailors, local riff-raff, naval shore patrols and local cops who always timed their arrival on the scene as the fights were winding down. If this is the peak of our 21st century creativity and culture, we are doomed to mediocrity! By the way why not also include Gensna (Taf int “hlisna mil barrani” and all that rewriting of history forced down our throats during the Mintoff Eighties). ”
How stupid, isn’t he?
In anticipation of the inevitable “consultation with stakeholders”, here are Baxxter’s Proposals For The Bringing Back To Life The Glorious Strait Street.
1. Mandatory buggery of all boys aged 12 to 14, registered in the Inner and Outer Harbour Region.
2. A quota of transvestites, to be established on the basis of the national census populations of the Inner and Outer Harbour Region.
3. Mandatory syphillis for a quota of girls aged 12-18 and women aged 18-75, to be established on the basis of the national census populations of the Inner and Outer Harbour Region.
4. The long-term lease of a naval and R&R base for NATO fleets, with an eco-friendly shuttle bus service from quay to bordello.
5. Strict controls on illegal moonshine alcohol. Licences will only be issued to bars which stock at least fifty gallons of moonshine per week.
6. A quota of rapes, murders, indecent exposures and breaches of the public peace, to be established on the basis of extrapolated figures from the 1850-1950 average, adjusted for population growth and tourist hotel nights.
7. The setting up of a government-sponsored orphanage to house the large brood of bastards – sorry, tfal bis-single parent – that the revamped Strait Street will start producing on D+9 months. Training in useful and productive manual labour to be provided. For this purpose, the shipyards will be re-nationalised and re-opened, with a minimum workforce of 30,000.
8. Finally, government funds for Wasteserv, to develop a new non-acidic, pH-neutral formula for vomit, which will be sprayed hourly by special eco-friendly, electrically-powered vehicles, to minimise chemical damage to the new cobble-stones on Strait Street, whilst providing the tasteful ambience and revitalising and rejuvenating this Valletta icon.
Bring on Charlon Gouder as consultant.
Hypocrites. The end of poverty it seems.
Is it true that Tumas Group sold their shares in arriva a few months back?
[Daphne – Yes.]
Thank you.
Who is the fool that bought them?
http://www.facebook.com/vellanorman
http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=%26%23288%3Blieda+fuq+vettura+tal%2Dlinja&t=a&aid=99853267&cid=19
And a happy new year.
Meanwhile, as The Malta Independent puts it, it is business as usual in public transport. This is a picture of public transport under the management of James Piscopo, he who was the CEO of Labour, is now Chairman (and CEO?) of Transport Malta, and who, with his wife, lost their push chair somewhere in Golden Bay.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-01-02/news/business-as-usual-for-the-bus-service-3586555904/
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Have a heart. Jason Micallef is from a Mosta family and does not know what Strait Street was. Perhaps he is just trying to make a noise – that’s all.
GWU will not protest against new gas prices:
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-01-03/news/gwu-will-not-protest-against-new-gas-prices-3589931010/
People don’t care.
Before the 2013 election, all you could hear were people complaining about how they couldn’t keep up with expenses under a Nationalist government, how petrol and electricity tariffs went up and up, and of course, the heinous €500 honoraria.
In reality, now that the “u iwa, mhux xorta” gang are in power, people don’t really care. While we have never been the most disciplined country in the world, this nonchalance of the proper way to govern has trickled down to everything.
From policemen smoking in uniform on beat, to hearing a pharmacist tell his P.O.Y.C customer that he has found her husband’s papers and when she receives the new control card, to throw it out, to shops who previously gave you a receipt and no longer do so.
Not to say that these things have never happened before, but this “I don’t care/ u iwa mhux xorta” attitude can definitely be felt to a greater extent. Following human nature, if the Prime Minister, the man who should be a shining example of righteousness, can lease his car for personal gain to the government, why should others not bend the rules?
If the Minister of Homeland Security can have thousands of Euros at home, not to say anything about the Minister for Gozo who wants us to believe he is a pauper, why should Joe Blow selling veggies from a truck give anyone receipt?
If the Minister of Education does his job while having lunch and posting it on facebook, why should others not think that government officials can be bought with a nice lunch and a bottle of home made wine?
This is why people don’t care about the price of gas/petrol/electricity. They prefer the unprofessional and double-dealing government we have because this allows them to get away with so much themselves.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-01-03/news/gwu-will-not-protest-against-new-gas-prices-3589931010/
But now price increases are referred to as price stability.
Ma jafux jisthu.
And the Labour hardcore is the most affected by all these price increases and low wages.