Oh no! The bus contract too has hit a brick wall. Tsk tsk.
The power station has gone AWOL. The casino tender is beached in a court wrangle which now involves claims that the chairman of the Privatisation Unit, a wizened fossil who PM Dom Mintoff had brought over from Australia in the Golden Years of Labour to head his HAL 9000 computer centre in Swatar, lied under oath. And now the Maltese bidders for the bus operator tender have gone to court too and a judge has stopped the government from signing its contract with Spanish company Autobuses de Leon.
Never a dull moment under Labour, but the fascinating thing is that the more recent incarnations of the Labour Party have liked to sell themselves on their professional management skills while using management talk – just like our man Muscat at his press conference today.
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Why does he bother?
Everything he says is crap.
Spare us.
Ha tkun il-qorti li tiddeciedi pero fl-istess hin cert li l-operatur il-gdid ser jibda jopera f’Jannar li gej. Mela diga jaf kif ser tiddeciedi il-qorti ?
Mhux hekk? Dak dara b’kollox jigih zewg, u issa qieghed jinfoska ghax kollox qed imurlu zmerg.
But what the heck is happening with Malta?
With every post on this blog uncovering every shade of corruption and we are still presented with a straight-faced Prime Minister who for him everything happens as a matter of course and there is not one single executive action to stop this nonsense.
It is a farce which the Opposition can use to rip him to shreds, but where are they?
Is it scratching my back to scratch yours?
I am inclined to believe this because we never had an Opposition acting spinelessly like this. So I would ask the epic question Quo Vadis Malta?
There are times when silence is golden, and this is one, two and three of them.
The Opposition does not have to do anything, just let Muscat stew in the mess that they are creating.
At this stage any comment by the Opposition is superfluous. It will only give Muscat something to grab on to to divert attention away from the disaster he is creating.
The Opposition needs to be there all over the place if it plans to penetrate through the crass ignorance of the electorate.
The Opposition has to be out there fighting. Most people don’t understand that something is wrong until you tell them it is…repeatedly.
All the Opposition has to do is compile a list of this mass corruption and keep updating it on their website and newspaper back page.
I don’t agree with your opinion on the Opposition. Either you don’t read or listen to any PN news or you have already forgotten the recent past.
The people were warned repeatedly about Labour and still gave PN a thrashing in the general elections.
One year later when the mask of the new Labour started peeling off, the people still opted to believe PM Muscat that the PN was negative and gave the PN another thrashing.
So yes I think that this is the time to inform the people what’s going on without being too aggressive. The Maltese electorate must taste their own medicine for some time.
The time to strike the drums and increase the tempo will eventually come. Patience.
[Daphne – You just don’t get it, do you. The PN got a double thrashing precisely because it WASN’T aggressive. Labour won because it spent five years and more engaged in the most aggressive war possible – and because that war was one-sided, it won it with extensive carnage. The PN flopped around like a rag-doll refusing to fight back and turning the other cheek. The situation was both ridiculously weak and lame, and offensive to the Labour Party’s many victims. It was a loser’s strategy, if it was a strategy at all. The Labour Party is still being hyper-aggressive in government, and people are DYING to see the Nationalist Party fight back. But it is not – because it is too busy listening to the very people who are still trying to justify their vote for Labour. People like that get carried with the tide, by their very nature. The minute they see the PN has once more become a fighting machine, they will want to be fighting with it. Because that’s how they are. They go with who is looking to them to be the stronger and more impressive at any given point.]
Am totally in agreement, Daphne. The Nationalist Party is not only perceived to be weak but it has not really come out to be the alternative party in government.
How can anybody place his faith in a party that is consistently dormant?
How can we expect the Nationalist Party to be in control of a thousand things going on at the same time when all it is doing is try to tackle one issue at a time as if it is still in stupor following the last elections?
I see inertia and not a clear strategy on how to bring this government to its knees, and this when we know that there are enough elements on which this administration can be brought to earth.
There are no tactics being employed – just reacting to the government’s agenda, the latter being skilfully masterminded by opinion makers and certain sections of the press.
Yes, the people are DYING to see the Nationalist Party rallying to fight back, but who knows what the real root causes are that are preventing this from happening?
Don’t worry, Daphne.
By the end of the month, Joe Mizzi will come up with another milestone schedule for the autobasbas tal-iljun.
Meanwhile everything is “on truck.”
The Labour government operates like a criminal organisation. Transparency is not necessary for them. What annoys me is that the people are not angry with all this corruption.
The people are angry, don’t worry. They just won’t admit it in public.
Ask yourself when was the last time that you heard anyone boast that he or she voted Labour?
That’s not anger, Curious. That’s embarrassment.
Are they? The ones I know are still trying to justify their switch saying that this government hasn’t done anything wrong and trying to justify the unjustifiable.
One has to be really strong to admit being in the wrong and, believe me, a lot of the switchers are weak of character and intellect.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-18/local-news/Court-stops-signing-of-public-transport-contract-with-Spanish-company-6736125893
Autobassis tal-Iljun: Autobazwar ftit ‘l hawn u Autobazwar ftit ‘l hemm.
Awtobazwir tal-Miljun.
As I missed most of the budget speech because of work, and have not yet got access to the printed version, can anybody direct me to the part where it mentions the income from the sale of passports?
Most probably we are selling visas now and not passports. So far the amount from the sale is about 100,000 bottles of water.
Well at least you were not flying like Marc Sant li faqawlu l-Facebook feed bil-comments.
When asked about the situation concerning Luciano Busutill, Muscat said that he wasn’t the first lawyer to be investigated.
Oh, that’s all right then.
He pretends not to know the difference between a “konvenju” and bejgh.
One is a promise of sale, and the other is the done deal.
And that sleaze Lino Farrugia Sacco wasn’t the first judge who escaped an impeachment attempt, either. How long before he’s appointed to some board or other?
GPS/Roadmap has gone berserk
That’s because they can’t understand the Chinese computerised voice.
I heard the phrase ‘big bang approach’.
Is this a Desert Princess reference?
The biggest bang you’ll get out of that one is with a sharp hat-pin.