Just noticed I haven’t blogged for a bit – so sorry, time flies and all that.

Don’t you think that Labour Lil’elves, and sometimes I wonder whether we shouldn’t start calling Joseph Muscat L.I.C. (work it out) slightly missed the point about the PN’s “Muscat will be freezing minimum wage” campaign?   It’s not so much about precisely what he’s going to do about it, but about his apparently inherent inability to make clear what he is going to do.   Living wage, no increase to minimum wage, increase to minimum wage, make your blinking mind up, why don’t you?

In this he’s consistent, if in nothing else: he will say what he thinks people want to hear. 

Let’s take another example: Muscat has apparently convinced the gay community that – probably with a good dose of mom and apple pie – he will be sure that they will have the right to be considered a family.   The catch is, they won’t be allowed to marry or adopt children, which sort of rather demands the question be put: what sort of “family” are you talking about, Dr Muscat?

We’re getting the same sort of vapid slogans spouting all over the country on Labour’s billboards.  

In Gozo, pretty much in the dead centre, there’s one which says “Work in Gozo for Gozitans”, which is so patently a non-starter that I doubt the canny Gozitans are fooled for a second, even if they would say to Joseph’s face that it’s a good idea.  And it is a good idea, just as it would be a good idea for everyone to be given a free holiday, with spending money, by the Government every six months.

The only problem is that in the real world, it won’t happen, just as it won’t happen that every Gozitan who wants to work in Gozo will be able to, however many hands are raised to say the will.

Want another statement of the bleedin’ obvious, sorry, I mean Labour proposal for the next election?  

Here you go, (I’m translating loosely) “Business: we’ll let you work”. 

Wow, gee thanks, as opposed to what, making businesses apply for permission to the Supreme Lord and Master to be allowed to operate, rather than having their goods or services catered for by lunatic Socialist methods such as bulk-buying and import substitution?

Another one?

Here it is: “Energy, we will reduce bills” (notice, no ifs or buts or maybes this time) but do they tell us how or when?  Of course not, because they can’t.  There is no way that energy bills can be reduced within any reasonable span of time, unless the law is broken.  Converting the power-station to gas needs a lead-time of so many years that Labour will be using energy bills as an election slogan in five years’ time, even if they are in Government.

And on and on the empty slogan go, promising us more youths graduating successfully (how many more can the system take?) and open Government in a free society and everything else that makes you feel warm and fuzzy and want to pick Joseph up and hug him to bits.

What they don’t tell us, of course, is about the deals being made with the hunters and the promises made to people who have MEPA permits for tasty projects in sensitive areas pending and about the innumerable other promises that are being and will continue to be made in the cosy little chats that are arranged for the chosen ones?

Maybe they don’t tell us about these things because they don’t exist, of course.