PM trying to turn people's message around - Muscat
The Prime Minister was not accepting the people’s message in this month’s elections and was trying to turn it around, PL leader Joseph Muscat said.
Speaking to supporters this morning, Dr Muscat said that whereas Dr Gonzi last week said he would see what the people had to say following the EP election results, the way he was talking now showed he was not really listening.
This was a big problem, especially since the people had screamed their message, he said.
The Prime Minister was not realising that his government was falling to pieces and was in denial. The government was losing support and its attitude was detrimental to the people because the country needed a strong government that could see to reality.
He referred to recent GDP reports saying these showed that this had decreased by three percent in the first three months of this year.
The government was not doing anything about this saying it would be tackling this in the next budget. But this was five months away. The government should bring the social partners together and tackle it now.
Moreover, the government was also considering the €14 million used for early retirement schemes to former shipyard employees as economic growth.
In reality, this sum should have been deducted. This would have seen a GDP drop of 4.6 percent, the highest decrease in Malta’s recent economic history.
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Joe Galea
Jun 15th 2009, 07:35
@Victor Vella: Reading your post I thought I was reading a fable by Hans Christian Andersen. You have a future in fiction writing. Keep it up!!
@ Bill Millam: In your post you haven't said anything which makes some sort of sense other than brainwashing yourself with that childlish crap. I imagine while you are writing your genius posts, you start giggling by yourself and perhaps feel proud for being so intelligent. Perhaps too you waved your PN flag while jotting down your philosophical words full of thoguht....inspired by Alan Deidun on Xarabank!!
Bill Millam
Jun 15th 2009, 07:18
@ Kevin Willie
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the losers are the ones sitting in the Opposition benches???
Bill Millam
Los Angeles
Galea. L
Jun 14th 2009, 22:06
Bill Millam
Let's see you writing the same comments after the next general election landslide victory by PL.
Kevin Willie
Jun 14th 2009, 19:50
@Bill Millam-Still nursing your wounds Bill following last week's thrashing your beloved GonziPN got???
Bill Millam
Jun 14th 2009, 19:37
The UNDENIABLE fact is that the Partit Nazzjonalista has since 1987 consistently beaten the Malta Loser's Party (or is it the Partit Socjalista or is it now the Partit Laburista???) where it matters most: at the National Elections. With the exception of a 2-year stint under Sant, the HOMOR (reds) are doomed to be the Party of the Opposition for eternity.
Viva l-Partit Glorjuz Nazzjonalista.
Bill Millam
Los Angeles
P. Schembri
Jun 14th 2009, 19:16
@V. Vella. The only one crumbling under pressure is the PN coming from within and from without
victor vella
Jun 14th 2009, 18:54
Twelve long months after the election of a new leader for the MLP , Joseph Muscat has so far only changed the name of the party.For those of you who are still waggiing your tails at winning the MEP elections, a word of advice if I may, could this be only popularity of a new leader?If yes he had better start working and come up with concrete proposals.The interview has shown that he cannot even control his blushing let alone difficult situations.Is Labour going to put Malta into the 1998 situation once again where an elected goverment resigns due to being unable to govern due to lack of planning?Will Joseph crumble under the feet of his aides who will un doubtly run roughshod once the elections are won.He is definately not in control of the party, his hesitation at the question confirms this.Jason is the leader and believe me folks that means trouble.
Can we know know how Labour would bring Malta out of the situation we are in?Or would we simply start collecting money from dubious countries again.
P. Schembri
Jun 14th 2009, 18:11
@R. Spiteri. You are really naive!
1. Gonzi did that too, although proven to the contrary!
2. Jason is not Joseph Muscat. If you read the interview in this newspaper, you would know.
3. How sure are you that the case will be lost about the vat on registration? It's what the PN spin is saying, not the EU.
4. Labour lost 6,000 votes since the last election. The PN lost 43,000!
Anthony Magri
Jun 14th 2009, 17:41
Mr. R. Spiteri. Are you able to think for yourself and not write as if you were brainwashed by the P.N. propaganda. That is the P.N. scope, and of certain articles in this paper. You can boast that you have no personal opinion but a plagiarised opinion.
You let others think for you and you blindly repeat their moaning when they criticize everything Labour.
It could be that the heading: Dr. J. Muscat will not promise to alter the water and electricity tariffs, was printed just before the interview. It was expected that such a reply would be given; moreover it seems that that was the only scope of the smiling interviewer, to get that answer and use it as the foundation of a sensational article. Whoever is interviewed by the TOM beware of such traps. An innocent answer could be the first stone on which to build an edifice.
G Agius
Jun 14th 2009, 17:34
The LP has trounced the PN this time around - fact! The PN made grave mistakes in the way it handled the Water & Electricity tariffs - fact! Regardless how it was handled the tariffs reflect consumption and that is the only just way to set tariffs - fact!
Joseph Muscat has no ideology - fact! He is an opportunistic PR machine front man telling everyone what they want to hear - fact! The PN is expected to govern and move the country forward whilst the PL is expected not to make a mess of the country and its economy - fact!
Solution - PN to handle their PR a lot more effectively and show up the PL for the shallow PR machine it is.
J. Schembri
Jun 14th 2009, 17:19
@R Spiteri : you forgot the whispering campaign
d) Hunting and trapping in Spring no matter what the European Court of Justice decides.
Noel Barry
Jun 14th 2009, 16:59
Dear Joseph. Why didn't you tell your followers, this morning, that you cannot guarantee that you will lower the water and electricity bills. The election has now passed. The u-turns are starting all over again.
Charles Zammit
Jun 14th 2009, 16:58
@ R. Spiteri
I do not share your views completely but there is one assertion you made that I would like to comment on. I refer to the last but one paragraph - "A father cannot please all his children every single day...one day his children will realise that their father was not right to allow such things to happen." How very true!!!! If only Dr. Gonzi and the maltese electorate realised this before March 2008!!! You must have forgotten how Dr. Gonzi promised everything to everyone before the election only to shy away in a most arrogant and irresponsible way.
CARMEL ZAMMIT
Jun 14th 2009, 16:09
DR GONZI FILLI GHAMEL KAMPANJA JIDER WAHDU(BL ISTILLEL WARAJH) FILLI LUM GHAL P C GABAR NOFS RAHAL WARAJH.MEA CULPA MEA CULPA U TA WARAJJA IT TORT TAGHHOM UKOLL. GHAL L EWWEL HSIBTHOM IL KANDITATI U GROUP PARLAMENTARI TAL LAPOUR GHAX FIHOM QIEGHED IWWAHAL.MUST HAVE MY EYES TESTED.VERU TIP TAL HMAR IL MAKUS
R Spiteri
Jun 14th 2009, 15:10
Dr Muscat, don't play the innocent....you are to blame for giving all the Maltese a wrong advice to choose partnership, not to join the euro zone and to vote for Labour in the last elections.....so don't try to show that you're fresh and clean.
In 1 year you promised :
a. free healthcare forever
b. no surcharge (Jason Micallef said so last Monday)
c. to refund yourself, Jason and the other MLP MP's who purchased a car in the past years, even though you will lose this at the law courts
I think you're trying to please everyone. A father cannot please all his children every single day...one day his children will realise that their father was not right to allow such things to happen.
At the end of the day, Alfred Sant achieved 6,000 votes more than you did.
adrian aquilina
Jun 14th 2009, 14:28
the only way to save the P.N. is to change Gonzi,Gatt,Pullicino or we really need an early election before the whole country goes under.arrogance is what stops Gonzi from accepting the results of the election and E.P.election results..we need a liberal leader who will totally seperate the state from the church too.this is the only way Malta has a chance of catching up to the rest of the world..The P.N.are out of date,too old fashioned and have no clue how to run this country..pity noone gave A.D. a chance to get a seat..
Stephen Farrugia
Jun 14th 2009, 14:19
Oh come on... the maltese are really freaking everyone out with their hate of the government...Mux ovvja hafna maltin joboghdu l gvern!! its the law!! l ewwel ivvutawlu umbad ghajjruh ghax il gvern,.... biss jiena jogobni kif qed jahdem gonzi.
F Spiteri
Jun 14th 2009, 14:19
The Prime Minster' s message shows once again A R R O G A N C E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!