Watch out for Labour’s ‘strange alliances’ – Gejtu Vella

Nationalist Party Candidate Gejtu Vella speaks to Sunday newspaper Illum of “dangerous” informal alliance between Labour and Employers’ Association.

Nationalist Candidate Gejtu Vella delivers ominous warnings of what he maintained would be “serious consequences” that workers and students are likely to face should Labour be elected to office.
Nationalist Candidate Gejtu Vella delivers ominous warnings of what he maintained would be “serious consequences” that workers and students are likely to face should Labour be elected to office.

In an interview with weekly newspaper Illum, Nationalist Party candidate and former UHM secretary general Gejtu Vella warned workers of what he described as a "dangerous" informal alliance with the Labour Party and the Malta Employers' Association.

In the interview, Vella maintained that despite the Labour Party's founding principles as a workers' party, the party leadership's proximity with employers, especially on issues such as the minimum wage, is "dangerous and does not augur well for every sector."

Vella delivers ominous warnings of what he maintained would be "serious consequences" that workers and students are likely to face should Labour be elected to office.

He insists that reports prepared by Labour economist and MEP Edward Scicluna are proof positive of Labour's stand against wage increases, adding that such reports also betray Labour's doubts over the validity of the stipends system.

Read the full interview in Sunday's edition of the Illum.

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Can anyone imagine this man as your elected MP representing your interest in the Maltese Parliament? The working class might as well throw caution to the wind and vote Assad of Syria to look after their rights. Mr. Vella’s mission in this next general election seems to be; to bad mouth the LP. He has no hope in hell of getting elected, but hoping a newly elected PN administration will find him a well paying position with the government as gratitude for his service to the party. The color of his political mission is well known, the devious strategy they he employs has been exposed a longtime ago, yet Mr. Vella’s will to continue to disrespect the intelligence of the Maltese worker remains intact. God forbid that such a chameleon should be privileged to sit in the new parliament building.
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Ara min irid jiftah halqu !!!!! bhal hafna u hafna nies ma nara l-anqas l-icken differenza bejn is-sur gejt u cilindru gass ..... bejn is-sur gejt u pippistrell mghaxxex .... bejn is-sur gejt u nofs kilo basal ......... bejn is-sur gejt u karfusa .... bejn is-sur gejt u bott imtaqqab .... bejn is-sur gejt u kwalunkwe opportunist ..... trid tkun veru gidra biex taghti vot lis-sur gejt .....
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Hallieh gejt ha jitla il-Labour forsi itina id-disa liri li kont tlabt. Izjed ma tiftah halqek izjed taghmel hsara lil ta gonzipn gejt.
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Only one word for it.........HYPOCRITE! Who cares what Mr. Vella has to say. Time has shown him for what he really is. Trying to play the part of a 'reasonable' trade unionist whilst being in league with the party in government. No credibility. An insult to all those honest trade unionists that sacrificed a lot to better living and working conditions in Malta.
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IL-gakbin tkellem. Kemm tnejjek bil-membri tal-UHM jilghaba tan-newtrali u kull darba jaccetta dak kollu li kien jiddetta il-PN/gonzipn.
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who is gejtu vella?
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Hallina Gejt.Ghadni niftakrek fuq it television tiehusehem f dibattitu tfahhar lil gvern tal PN imexxi minn GONZIPN li ghollha il kontijiet ta dawl u ilma. U nistaqsi f dawn l ahhar 25 sena kemm ilu il PN fil gvern kemm il darba zied il minimum wage ovvjament meta tnehhi cost of living ghax dik bil fors trid tinata bis sahha tal GWU? Bit tahwid mhux se titla Gejt!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gejtu your political party is the real threat for Maltese workers, students and pensioners.
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GEJT GHARA VERU MA TAFX TISTHI KEM KONT ILEK IS SEGRETARJU GENERALI TAL UHM GHAMILT MIN KOLLOX FAVUR IL GERV TA GONZI PN KONT SPALLA MA SPALLA MAL GRTU BASTA KONTRA IL HADDIEM ISTHI GEJT ZGUR FUQDIN ALLA MHUX SER JAHFIRLEK WICCEK SAR JOQOD GHALL KOLLOX. VERU IPOKRITA INT GEJT
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We don't have to worry if Labour is elected; we will still have Mr Gejtu Pace glamouring for an increase of 20 euros per week:we will never forget his outrageous 80's proposals, simply to put spokes into Labour's way!
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Paul Sammut
Dan Gejtu Vella wkoll. Min jaf jispiccax b`hal siehbu Censu Farrugja?
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Speaking of hypocrites, hidden agendas, betrayal, and secret meetings reminds me of some people.
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Speaking of hypocrites, hidden agendas, betrayal, and secret meetings reminds me of some people.
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The Getty Kouros speaks...
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Ħallina Gejtu lilek ma jemmnek ħadt. Il-UHM issa qed tieħu ir-ruħ ghax tlaqt int. Insejt meta tlabt 9liri (20) ewro zieda fil-gimgha taht il-labour u taht il-PN lanqas fi protesta pacifika kontra l-gholi tal-ħajja ma ridt tieħu sehem. Gejtu ara ma tigix thabbat id-dar ghal vot ghax nies bhallek ma rridtx fuq l-ghadba tieghi ahseb u ara fil-parlament. Nies bħallek ikomplu jikkonvinċuni biex ghal ewwel darba Nivvota lil Labour!!
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Kieku ghadu haj tal-farfett nippreferih minnek. Ghidtlu lil Simon biex fil-manifest iweghdna Lm9 zieda fil-gimgha Gejt. Ghadna nistennewha.
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Is this guy expecting us to take him seriously?? Does he think we forgot how he betrayed certain sectors of the civil service? Does he realise that some are now seeing him as Government's number one spy???
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Gejtu Vella should know a thing or two about "dangerous informal alliances" having steered such an alliance with the PN for the whole duration of his stewardship of UHM.
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Look who's talking - the person who, during his spell at UHM, had a strange alliance with the PN all the way. The same PN who has a strange alliance with the GRTU. If he is keeping himself updated with PL affairs, as he should be doing as a PN candidate, Vella should know that the current Labour leadership is insisting the the PL is not merely a workers' party but a 'work' party. "Partit tax-Xoghol' not just a "Partit tal-Haddiema.
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Insejt Gejt li tal-Lejber nehhew il-graturity lil tac-Civil u Eddie u Gonzi tighek ma ghamlu xejn biex iddahluha lura. Dimensia mhux taffetwani ghaliex Gonzi ittini l-pinuli ghaliha :)
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Insejt Gejt li meta kont "suppost" tiddefendi lil haddiem, hallejt lil siehbek Gonzi inehhi erba t'jiem leave fis-sena? oInsejt li kont titlob Lm9 u meta tela siehbek Eddie hadna il-laqx? insejt kif il-haddiem tilef hafna mid-drittijiet li kellu kemm kont ilek tahden min wara daharu biex toghob lil shabek Eddie u Gonzi? Il-haddiem taht il-lejber BISS ha ir-ruh. Il-Capping tal-penzjoni qal ma ghola wara li sar. Illum ghaddew 34 sena u kif kien baqa ara kemm thobbuh il-haddiem.
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jaf x jigifieri geatano...
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Luke Camilleri
Oh Dear Gejtu, we have watched YOUR STRANGE ALLIANCE eith the P.N. ..... or shall I say "affair" till you finally came out as a P.N.prospective canditate after bein given a nice table full of goodies as an HR Consultant ??????