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Friday 6 January 2012

When you call the shots and they land on your foot

Has PM Gonzi lost hold of his senses?

We were at work when we received a message from The Times, saying that the "government withdraws ministerial pay raise, promotes three parliamentary secretaries."

Our immediate reaction? "Bleh, Franco Debono has managed to have it his way." What else could one think?

Fortunately, however, this doesn't seem to be the case. Actually it ISN'T the case. Have you read his immediate comment? Well, he's calling on the PM to resign. According to Pio Franco, the PM has erred all along in the past years. He did us wrong and so must go. Oh please. When will this man get a real life?

Does he think everyone is so stupid and gullible to believe that he means well? That he really is calling on the PM to resign because of propriety? What if Dr Gonzi had made him Minister for Justice? Would he still have said that? Oh, bugger off.

Well, we can't deny that we'd have immensely cherished being a fly on that wall, seeing Dr Debono throwing tantrums because Chris Said took what he so desperately coveted. It's not out of spite, really. But you know, karma is one wonderful thing. One can now only wait and see which of the parliamentary sittings he'll decide to skive, and how many other party officials will have to pay him a visit to appease his discomfort.

Apparently he seems to have been severely reproached - on many an occasion. Yet, today's diva-like tantrums are quite indicative of the fact that everything must have fallen on deaf ears. And, thick-skinned as he is, we shall indeed be expecting much, much worse. What a twat, really. Everybody knows and thinks that - but he can't seem to get it.

Anyhow, to return to the main reason why we're writing this post.
How to put it mildly? "What on earth was Dr Gonzi thinking when he decided to revoke the pay-rises?" will have to do.

Contrary to the many out there, we were never against the raises. "Pay peanuts and you get monkeys" is a given, and the less they are paid, the more they will seek income elsewhere, so no more shall be said.

Hence, Dr Gonzi and the rest of the government were right to vote for it. They've a whole load of responsibilities on their backs, and expecting to be fairly (as opposed to "well") paid for it is only human. Besides, many seem to be oblivious to the fact that ministers now have bigger portfolios. But that's a totally different story, which we're not going to discuss here.

The Prime Minister said, on several occasions, that the pay-rise was justified and that he has no pangs of conscience. He was very vociferous about it - and whether he convinced you or not is again a totally different matter.

It is therefore incongruent that all of a sudden he's decided to repeal it. Once you believe something is right; once you try to make sure a whole nation deems it right; you may not, on one beautiful rainy day, do something of the sort. And blaming it on the cutting of costs won't help, really.

Shooting yourself in the foot. Political suicide. There's more than one way of saying it. Dr Gonzi, you shouldn't have done that. No. It's a big mistake. And you'll now have to face the titanic consequences that inevitably come with it.

That's bad. What comes next is even worse.
Expecting that a whole nation backs you because, "hey, I was not given the cejca (sweets) I wanted. Let's bring down the government. Help me! I don't care that there's an economic crisis and Malta shouldn't waste money on an unnecessary election. I want to make them suffer, because I had planned every minute detail of all this." It's nauseating.

It's such a pity that the promotion of 3 hard-working MPs - among whom Dr Mario De Marco, who's been doing a fabulous job with tourism - had to be clouded with such personal discontent made public.



2 comments:

  1. Viva Gonzipn. Viva Debono. Elezzjoni fil-qrib. Ejja ha nerbhu l-elezzjoni u naghmlu il-hajja tan-Nazzjonalisti MIZERJA bhal ma ghamluha lilna.

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  2. dr debono thinks he is allowed to do anything he lkes because he got some good votes. This is not permissible. The Pm should make sure to reprimand him. Where is the loyaltyto one's party? What folly. And to the people. Ommenting here: where's the misery? Don't be pathetic. We've all been living a comfy life. Debono is so selfish that he can't realise that. He is so selfish that to satisfy his ego he's ready to make the country spend a lot of money for something ridiculous.

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