“BBQ Buffet” for the Tourism Minister at the Danish Village
My view is that government ministers should stop doing these things for the duration. It is just so unseemly. While you’re in cabinet, stop the constituent-partisan-campaigning with ikliet, coffee mornings and bingo.
Backbenchers can do as they please on this matter. Those who sit in cabinet are in an entirely different position.
I don’t think cabinet ministers should be doing any personal fund-raising, either. It looks terrible and opens the door wide to suspicions of backhanders and corruption.
Should the tourism minister, in particular, be picking this hotel over that one for his personal campaign? What guarantee do we have that the Danish Village didn’t give him the space and food for free or at a massive discount?
I’d like to see that bill. And so should you. This is a country in which democracy is consistently undermined by, among other things, freebies to politicians.
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I stand to be corrected but isn’t the Danish Village a GWU investment?
[Daphne – Yes, that’s the point. You don’t have to be a private business to corrupt a cabinet minister. And a cabinet minister accepting freebies from a trade union is almost worse than a cabinet minister accepting freebies from a businessman.]
All in the family then …. Is ISSA DAQSHEKK invited ?
If he did, he might have been mistaken for the main course. Majjalata mil-ahjar – u zgur jibqa’ z-zejjed.
Is the GWU still a shareholder there? Taghna f’taghna lkoll.
The Danish Village is trade union owned.
I remember that when the Danish Village first opened all the furniture was constructed by Malta’s foremost company experienced in the manufacture of wooden crates for wine bottles.
These same people provided Mintoff with his annual summer cruise ‘tal-qamel’ on board the Noneta ‘mas-sur Tonin tal-Marsovin’.
And if any payment is made it shouldn’t be made out of our coffers.