Five free bulbs a year to every citizen who can prove that he or she is tall enough to replace a light bulb, energy saving needless to say. Anyone who believes that such an electoral measure will save the planet should take a walk on the west side. Malta’s energy bill is mainly dedicated to the production of water. Water that is heavily subsidised and this makes the reverse osmosis operation appear like a cost free operation. The bill for electricity (light) in homes is insignificant. The happiest people in earth will be the white good suppliers or supplier who will provide at least 1 million bulbs a year to government. How nice!
Really and truly both parties have lost their marbles. They are cutting taxes left right and centre without caring about revenues. Gonzi says that the economy is doing so well that he is in a position to rethink his fiscal policy.. And Sant says that his tax cuts will bring confidence into the country. .
It would be interesting to hear what the economists have to say about all this tax reform. The economists who traditionally have questioned the lack of economic foresight, and the poor fiscal budgeting and management by our government. It is one thing making taxes more friendly and it is another thing cutting all revenues to the State. The State needs dosh to operate efficiently. Gonzi and Sant should not forget this.
It is rather disconcerting the way our politicians fiddle around with our gold chest
I would not be too surprised if the poll organised by MaltaToday next Sunday shows more gains for the PN. I still think that the Labour party have a very good chance of winning the next election. But there is little to impress on people in the way of campaigns. Labour has still to show us what its campaign is all about. Who the hell is organising the campaign?
What was even far more worrying was the juicy bait laid out in Xarabank by Joe Azzopardi for Dr Michael Falzon.
Joe aka Peppi asked Dottor Michael Falzon if he would consider a coalition with the Greens and Michael trying once again to be educated and middle of the road, said he would not repeat what Francis Zammit Dimech had just stated, he would not rule out a coalition.
Which was exactly what the PN was hoping Falzon would say.
That is: Give the impression that the MLP will bind themselves in a coalition with the Greens, hoping that disgruntled Nationalists who had thought they would flock to AD would suddenly put their feet on their ABS.
Once again, I am lost for words. How stupid can Labour get? Or to be precise, how naive can Falzon get?
Anyone who knows the Greens will tell you that they are as close to Labour as Simon Busuttil is close to giving up his MEPs wage and donate it to the Little Sisters of poor. But the Nationalists have managed to convince several angry PN people that the Greens are truly in bed with Labour.
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I have a number of questions that I would appreciate some answers to:
1) What was the rural and environment minister George Pullicino doing at the opening of a skating rink in the highly polluted Tal-Qroqq enclave, was this not a job for Ninu Zammit or Jesmond Mugliett? Or have am I missing something?
2) The Europhile Prime Minister has said that he will ban spring hunting if the European Court decides so. Is this what the European spirit is all about? And what if the Court does not decide.
3) Daphne feels very strongly that black and coloured migrants should be treated like equal human beings but when it comes to the Greens she considers them to be millipedes that should only be squashed and dropped by the side. Is this another form of racism? Perhaps DCG dreams for all the ageing wrinkled ministers (such as Tonio Borg and Jesmond Mugliett ) back in the cabinet to have something to write about in the next five years. In other words, hit out at the Nationalists for four years 11 months and then praise them for the last month. Yes or no?
COMMENTS
02/23/08 6:29 PM, Daphne Caruana Galizia
In terms of logic, your point 3 is a complete non sequitur. Do I take it that you will permit me to criticise the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party but not AD? I imagine that, like several others, you thought that because I criticised the Nationalist Party I had ceased to support it. By some magic coincidence, the people who thought this are all MLPAD supporters, indicating how rampant (not) auto-criticism is in these groupings. I see parallel levels of autocratic thinking and control freakery in both those parties - and two leaders hanging on for roughly the same length of time, to their party's detriment.
02/19/08 4:52 AM, Michael Debono
I agree in principle with Benjamin that ideally we should have a coalition govt so that we get rid of this zero sum game politics, though I think we need another election to see it happen honestly.
What was interesting watching gonziplus (sorry bondiplus!) yesterday and also Xarabank, is that Nationalists are more keen to attack AD than MLP and are staying mum re AN. (Simon Busuttil vs Harry Vassallo and Jason Azzopardi vs Edward Fenech yesterday), with MLP/AN watching the debate.
This could mean that the polls are saying that AD are going to do very well.....if not they would not be targeting AD so harshly.
02/19/08 1:00 AM, Benjamin
Michael re the PN i agree with you but my doubt is whether MLP is able to endure 5-10 yrs in govt. Parlaimanetarians elected reflect the society and it seems our society's problems is not just illiteracy but also its shallowness in its thoughts....( or mindful of scratching their friends backs)
The solution lies in a coalition govt, and re shortsightedness of such govt dont worry so much, it cannot be as short as it has been for the last 44 yrs
02/18/08 12:13 PM, Michael Debono
The PN are livid with AD for a very simple reason....they think that AD should not "steal" their "traditional" votes. This is crass stupidity. Votes belong to the people not parties. Also, are the PN bigshots so arrogant that they cannot understand that a small alternative party is set to gain votes at the expense of a party that has been in government for 2 decades? Isn't this so obvious?
Moreover, the PN should be ashamed of themselves on how they treated AD, their then allies remember?, on the last day of the 2003 elections. The then PN leader stabbed AD in the back with a sole reason to perpetuate the PN's single handed stronghold on power. This is set to change with the MLP becoming the largest party in Malta and the smaller parties (AD in particular) gaining strong ground in the hastings. The PN needs 5 to 10 years in opposition to change itself first.
