The chairman of the parliamentary committee for economic and financial affairs will help you apply to get your VAT back on cars if you go to his personal ‘ufficini’
Silvio Schembri
An admirer of Silvio Schembri
Silvio Schembri, the 28-year-old first-time Labour MP who has been made chairman of the parliamentary committee for economic and financial affairs and who has also been given a full-time consultancy job with the Ministry for Economic Affairs, has been texting people at random.
A copy of his text is shown here.
This man, who has a full-time job with a government ministry and who chairs a parliamentary committee, is actually offering his services to all and sundry, via advertising on a text message, “for help in applying to get the VAT back” on cars bought within a certain period.
To get his “help in applying”, you have to go to one of his personal “ufficini” (little offices) because even though he works for the government he can’t see you at his government office because 1. helping fill in application forms is clerical work in a government department, and 2. he wants to make it clear that this is patronage and that you owe him one in terms of votes.
So very…southern Italy circa 1950. And these are the supposed progressive liberals.
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Silvio Schembri or bust.
What the “Honourable gentleman” did not say in his message is that the refund is being split over seven years and that an application has to be submitted every year.
Silvio Schembri does not say if he is offering this service free of charge.
Why shouldn’t the government provide free assistance to applicants?
And what’s this thing called “Gvern Laburista”? Wasn’t it a Gvern tal-Muviment?
Ciccio: “Why shouldn’t the government provide free assistance to applicants?”
In the current state of Maltese affairs (high illiteracy, semi-illiteracy, lack of life skills) people need to be thought some basics: if they need assistance with a form they can ask help from a family member, a friend or a clerk at the relative department – BUT NOT AN MP! Imagine the Brits going to Theresa May or George Osborne with a form to fill in (one couldn’t even imagine it).
Oh, I agree. By “government” I really meant the department concerned, not an MP or a Minister. There surely is a help-desk in the VAT department, or is there?
How more ridiculous can things get? That there are still people who can’t fill in a simple form is beyond comprehension.
To be asked by an MP to go to a surgery for such help is simply corrupt. People can get a family member, friend or a VAT-office office clerk to assist them – they do not need you, Silvio!
Silvio Schembri is a vulgar bumpkin who has neither the experience nor the qualifications to occupy the posts he’s been given, making his appointment one of the Labour Party’s most outrageous iced buns so far.
Do you think he will be taking pictures of the queues waiting outside his office to obtain help with the forms, and publishing them on Facebook?
“Silvio Schembri is a vulgar bumpkin who has neither the experience nor the qualifications to occupy the posts he’s been given, making his appointment one of the Labour Party’s most outrageous iced buns so far.”
This applies to most, if not to all, of those who received an iced bun from Joseph Muscat.
After seeing his smooth chest I was tempted to maybe let him fill-me-up but than I saw the ‘other’ admirer and had a change of heart.
Daphne, your’e a spoil sport and you ruined it for me.
I see that, as shown in the second picture, Silvio’s admirers have ample opportunities to offer in support of his campaign.