Election week: the government sends you a cheque for Eur110 on car VAT, deposits your children’s allowance, and…keeps your electricity bill till later
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May 23, 2014 at 9:53am
It’s such fun being treated like an idiot. But I suppose that when the government has tangible evidence, in the form of electoral results, of how easily (though expensively) suckered lots of people are, it just keeps right on using suckering tactics safe in the knowledge that people will fall for them.
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In a state of panic, the prime minister declared, a few hours before the election campaign was officially over last night, that IPSL workers (ex-dockyard workers employed within the public sector) were to have a rise in their wages. How pathetic.
[Daphne – He’s not in a ‘state of panic’ at all. All the polls show that the Labour Party will win a large majority of the vote. He simply wants to make it as large as possible. This is an ego trip. If he weren’t so sure of winning a large majority, he would not have said that this is a contest between him personally and Simon Busuttil. He only said that because there is no risk involved as he knows already what the result will be.]
One has to wonder why a PM should need an ego trip.
We got our bill, it covers part of April too, no deductions. Neither has that of a friend of mine.
I wish for an election every month. Electricity bills are reduced, MCAST building officially opened, my children’s stipends and allowances come exactly on voting day, dock workers are promised a wage rise, and a factory’s redundancies are halved.
It seems like the sleeping beauty has awoken and wants to do all the tasks left undone all in a hurry.
Marsascala residents who live in the vicinity of the recycling plant also received the annual allowance, which by the way was reduced, stating lower electricity tariffs as the reason.
Also, I noted that our electricity bill received this week was lower than usual. I thought maybe it’s due to the promised reduction in tariffs … until I realised that the bill covered 1 1/2 months. I don’t recall ever receiving a bill for such a short period.
What they forgot to mention is that for a motorcycle that costs the same as a car, you get half the amount.
Nibdew bet zghira biex nimlew dil-gurnata kwieta?
20 k ghal-Labour jien.
My water and electricity bill covered the whole of March and April. At the back of the bill, there was an explanation of how it was worked out.
The March consumption was calculated with the old rates, but the April one was calculated with the new reduced rates.
There was a slight reduction from previous bills, but nothing to write home about.
For the first 2000 units, the price per unit is 10c. Before April it was 16c.
This will be interesting; there is no way that the Labour Party will retain the same (proportionate) majority.
It will be Dr. Muscat’s first ‘loss’ since taking over the reins. His behaviour will probably shift.
We got our water and electricity bill yesterday too, and even though ARMS attached a sheet with the new rates and how to calculate them, I did not see (and could not calculate) a difference from our previous bills.
Farce after farce.
I, too, have received a water/electricity bill this week – for the period mid-February to 7th April.
The amount for the first 7 days of April has been worked on the new tariffs – and the overall result shows a 5% reduction for the whole period against what it would have amounted to if consumption for those 7 days were to be calculated at the older rates.
That’s a fact.
What is also a fact is that I have still to be duped by Joey’s little tricks of the sort he has played these last days.
Never have – never will.
My electricity and water bill arrived today, and it was higher than normal!