Our cards are on the table – Busuttil
The Nationalist Party has placed its cards on the table for the electorate to make its choice but the Labour Party is still keeping them to itself, PN deputy leader Simon Busuttil charged yesterday.
He said that, while the PN had given the people its full programme, Labour was dishing out information in bits.
Dr Busuttil was speaking on TVM in a debate which also featured Finance Minister Tonio Fenech and Labour candidates Gavin Gulia and Adrian Meli.
While Dr Busuttil accused Labour of not having replies to people’s questions on its proposals, Dr Gulia accused the PN of making proposals that lacked any credibility as the promises it had made in the past had not been kept.
Even the European Commission said the Government had good ideas but was weak in their implementation, he said.
Mr Fenech lashed out at Dr Gulia over his record as minister during Labour’s stint in government between 1996 and 1998.
Mr Meli criticised the Government over its failed promise to eradicate waiting lists and over the problem of out-of-stock medicines. He said the PN was promising a refund but at the Government’s prices rather than the price bought in pharmacies.
The two sides argued over their energy proposals, with the PN representatives saying Labour’s plan was not doable and would cost the country a bomb.
They also clashed over the creation of jobs, with the PN saying it created 20,000 and Labour insisting this figure was only 6,700.
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Victor Vella
Feb 1st, 20:38
Your cards are on the table and people`s votes are in their intelligence.
GL Calleja
Feb 1st, 14:38
Mr Busuttil some of the commentators are putting you on a very high pedestal and the higher you go the higher the drop. You still haven't answered my question as to when you( PN Party) is going to make it clear as to when you, or the PL are going to make it possible for the owners of requisitioned (confiscated) properties be able to get their properties back? All we ask for is for what is ours.
Ronald Borg
Feb 1st, 11:22
Su Busuttil,
ever heard of Poker?
Pn have never been in so much trouble.
HENRY FENECH AZZOPARDI
Feb 1st, 09:21
Simon Bussutill is definitely a huge problem for the PL. So much so that JM kicked Anglu to have Louis, but still Louis is no match for Simon.
Simon is our future Prime Minister while Louis is too old to reach that goal. Simon's brains are too much for JM to cope and no wonder the PL programme is being isssued in bits and pieces. In computer language the PL proposals are called COPY PASTE.
Raymond Micallef
Feb 1st, 13:32
Dear Henry, you said it all already. Simon is your future PM, when you do not know? I believe it would be another Julius Ceasar very soon, 'Et tu Brutes!!!' What is the point of having a manifesto and not achieving it? At least PL are explaining aspect by aspect to the people, in the end that would be the manifest, explained and more importantly achievable!!!! Soon we will see the difference.
HENRY FENECH AZZOPARDI
Feb 1st, 18:43
@ Raymond Micallef
How times change, we both have our different opinions and we both respect it. I like your comments, unfortunatelly there has to be a winner and a loser. May who ever wins will deliver for the good of the country.
Good luck mate.
DUNCAN FABRI
Feb 1st, 07:40
Once Sir Alex Furguson said “When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate I check under the sauce to make sure. They are the inventors of the smokescreen.” Agreed and the PN has perfected the smokescreen!
Joe Grech
Jan 31st, 21:43
PN implementation resulted in Mater Dei overspending and not enough beds;
The transport Malta / Arriva disgrace;
Serious Overspending on insane projects;
Inefficient Vat and government rentals collection;
Inefficient courts and justice system;
Increased Crime;
Corruption here, everywhere...
Joseph E Briffa
Feb 1st, 10:58
You forgot to mention the very low jobless rate,the increase in wages and salaries,job opportunities,the highest per capita income,the biggest ever figure of people in employment, the biggest ever number of graduates, the highest ever level of quality of life, the state of the art hospital and the excellent care to one and all. Crime and corruption are innate in humans; no one will eradicate it
Joe Grech
Feb 1st, 19:26
@Joseph E. Briffa
Jobless rate or do you refer to Smart City unfulfilled promises?
Increase in salaries - about time, after five years of overtaxation, spiralling cost of living!
People just NEED to go out working again - otherwise they'll join the thousands living below Poverty levels - something that's been confirmed!
As for quality of life.... we've been sickened with unhealthy toxic waste!
Joe Grech
Jan 31st, 21:39
''Dr Busuttil accused Labour of not having replies to people’s questions...''
Dr. Busuttil if you wish to be taken seriously please answer these questions: What happened to your cries for ''Solidarity and Burden Sharing''? Did you not end up looking a fool in Brussels when practically everybody rejected your impractical ideas?
Is that what made you come here - to fool us into believing you?
Victor Mallia
Jan 31st, 20:08
You cannot mix together Credibility & PN.
Joe Tabone
Jan 31st, 20:04
The PN has a vision for the country, but sadly the PL does not even have a electoral programme let alone a vision.
Wally Vella-Zarb
Jan 31st, 23:08
In the past the PN always boasted about having a vision. Unfortunately for our country this 'vision' turned out to be only a mirage.
Joe Bonanno
Feb 1st, 17:53
If by "Vision" you mean living beyond the country's means than you're right. I'll repeat again: what if the PN had inherited this level of debt and not the billion euros that MLP left them in 1987? Where would the PN be at today? Do you actually believe that an administration that can't balance a single budget would have managed?
As usual the PL will have to come in and clean up the PN's mess
Mr leo attard
Jan 31st, 19:46
but what about the cards up your sleeve?
Joe Grech
Jan 31st, 21:17
That a very good one Mr. Leo Attard.
I would not trust Simon Busuttil when he tries to tell me how to vote.
He failed at Brussels when everyone rejected his calls for ''Solidarity'' & ''Burden Sharing''. He ended up looking a fool.
Which is why he's come back here.....
Please choose the reason of your report below: