‘Don’t risk now, that you have it all’ – Simon Busuttil
PN deputy leader insists that electorate would be risking ‘all the country has achieved’ over the years, should Labour be elected to government.
16 February 2013, 12:00am
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Karl Stagno-Navarra
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PN deputy leader Simon Busuttil
Speaking on Radio 101 this morning, PN deputy leader Simon Busuttil stressed that all which was achieved over the past years in the country, risks being lost just for the sake of Labour's political battle-cry, which calls for change.
Highlighting once more PL leader Joseph Muscat's call for government to follow the example of Cyprus, Busuttil said that people today have a taste of what Labour is all about.
"We can see that Labour has no idea how to run the economy and steer it through the myriad of risks, from PL leader Joseph Muscat's 'suggestion' for government to follow the Cypriot example," Busuttil said, adding that while everybody today recognises how wrong Labour was to suggest such a move, Cyprus today is facing economic disaster, with unemployment rates which are more than double Malta, and the former Cypriot President Vassiliou saying that it would have been wiser for Nicosia to have followed Malta.
About education, Busuttil asked the electorate to look around and understand all that has been achieved in this sector. "We have invested hundreds of millions for your children's future, so why would we have to risk it all, when Labour's track record in education was to convert stipends into loans and Prof. Edward Scicluna believes that stipends are an 'unaffordable luxury'.
He said that the greatest success and pride for a PN-led government were the statistics which showed that from all the thousands of graduates from university every year, unemployment among them was down to zero rate.
"We are in an enviable situation," Busuttil said, adding that it was something for a nation to be proud of that all graduates get a job, while others are already given a job before they actually graduate.
Busuttil said that a new PN-led government is pledging to increase stipends on a pro-rata basis and adjust them according to the increase in the cost of living.
There is also the proposal where the PN in government will pay National Insurance contributions from when a student would be earning his stipend, granting the opportunity to start his pension savings from his student years.
Those students who come from lower-income families, already benefit from higher stipends, and this is set to continue to increase.
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Instead of being the ace in the pack, this Busuttil is turning out to be the two of spades! Is this the type of performance he delivers in Brussels? God help us!
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‘Don’t risk now, that you have it all’ – Simon Busuttil
You're right,you were the only person visibly missing, up to some months ago.
Now the picture is complete
Yes, with you we now have the cherry on the (rotten) cake!
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‘Don’t risk now, that you have it all’ – Simon Busuttil. What do we have Xmun? tell us! the high gas prices, the cost of utility bills, the standard of living, transport (Arriva)?, health? waiting months on end for just an appointment,the precarious jobs, the political disciminations that people have been through, what do you mean? what are we going to loose? frame ups, deprive certain government employees from doing overtime while others do earn thousands and thousands without doing anything? what are we going to loose? I tell you what we are going to loose, corruption, arrogance from Nationalists MPs, abuse of power from certain directors and general directors in the civil service, threats from same, frame ups from same. When you want name i will quote. If Natioanlist are again elected bye bye to the whistles blower's act. They are scared of it abd they have reason to be so scared. Is Austin Gatt going to be investigated by the Inland Revenue Dept and the tax comp-liance unit for tax evasion or only the small fish (the workers) only are liable for that. Thats what we are going to loose. We are going to get a BETTER FUTURE under a New Labour.Government
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"Busuttil said that a new PN-led government is pledging to increase stipends on a pro-rata basis and adjust them according to the increase in the cost of living." - I HEARD THAT SENTENCE BEFORE, AT LEAST 3 DAYS BEFORE. SO WHO IS COPYING NOW SIMON. BY YOUR SAME YARDSTICK, YOU MUST RESIGN NOW. YES NOW. YOU HAVE COPIED THIS OFFER FROM THE PL MANIFESTO AND YOU MUST GO.
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IT IS BLATANTLY OBVIOUS THAT SIMON BUSUTTIL HAS SPENT TOO MUCH TIME IN BRUSSELS WHERE LIES ARE COMMONPLACE. IT IS ALSO BLATANTLY OBVIOUS THAT SIMON BUSUTTIL DOES NOT KNOW ONE IOTA OF HOW MUCH THE PEOPLE OF MALTA ARE ANGRY AT HIS PARTY FOR THE MASSIVE CORRUPTION SCANDALS THAT HAVE SPROUTED UP EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THIS CAMPAIGN. IF, AS HE CLAIMS, LABOUR HAS NO IDEA OF THE ECONOMY, SIMON HAS NO IDEA ABOUT ANY ASPECT OF MALTESE SOCIETY AND LIFE AND CAN CERTAINLY NOT BE TRUSTED IN ANY POSITION OF POWER. NO - IT IS BEST THAT SIMON GOES BACK TO BRUSSELS WERE LIES ARE THE EVERY DAY OCCURRENCE AND WHERE HE OBTAINED HIS TRAINING.
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Simon, jekk trid tkun kredibbli meta tikkkwota l-istorja, ikkwota fedelment. Kif qal Joseph Muscat waqt id-dibattitu f-Universita, mit tlett mexxejja kien GONZI li naqqas l-istipendju. X'kien ser isir mill-labour mhux importanti. L-importanti nerga nirrepeti, huwa li kien GONZI li naqqas l-istipendji, u dan huwa fatt storiku li la int u lanqas il-GonziPN tieghek ma jista jhassru. Studenti attenti u tafdawx lill GonziPN. Fuq kollox kien il-Partit Laburista li introduca l-istipendji, u l-aktar biex jghin lill dawk l-istudenti lu gejjin minn familji bi dhul baxx.
Luke Camilleri •
Is Dr. Busuttil referring ‘Don’t risk now, that you have it all’ to the OLIGARCHY which in all effects, runs the show ?
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Enviable situation? The only ones who are in an enviable situation in this country are you and your cronies, especially the ones who took the Euro500 a week increase plus perks. Dr. B every time you speak publicly I become more and more convinced that you are an asset to the PL!
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Dear Simon, if you think that persons are idiots then you are quite mistaken! Everybody even many pn supporters will not vote for the pn and will abstain for the simple reason that corruption has skyrocketed during the past 5 year term. The pn needs to learn a good lesson in humility!
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What is the 'all' that we have? I think Simon is addressing the GonziPN cliquev - it is them that have had it all.
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Dr Busuttil, I beg to differ. We do not have it all. It is the few that have it all. They are ones that are afraid of the change bec they have too much to lose. I, Joe Citizen, look forward to a change for the better.
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All the country has achieved (under GonziPN? Really Simple Simon, can't you do better than this? Filthy power station. Unabated corruption. Massive public debt. A parliament building as a monument to Gonzi's ego, etc etc. Thanks, but no thanks.
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What a disappointment Simon is turning out to be. As one would say in Brussels, ‘folie de grandeur’ …and surely the best way to deal with this is to feed the frenzy!
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I voted once for the PN second legislature, but what ever has been gained over the years is being eroded, democracy, parliament, job security, moral high ground, peace of mind and reasonable calm politics. Today the PN has re-started to divide the Maltese again, it is corrupt, governs with nepotism, looks at your political beliefs, and has become a hereditary oligarchy. It is a divisive party and no longer forward looking. It has lost its vision of a united Malta. Malta needs to start a new chapter in its history, and now is the time and moment.
The PN is now historically irrelevant because it is irrelevant for the majority of the people.
In a way I pity Simon and his historical failure and floundering. He is on the wrong side of history this time, and worst of all, his body language clearly conveys this.
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Could it be that you are forgetting the thousands of graduates who don't work in Malta but have had to leave to work abroad when you say that there is zero unemployment amongst graduates? We're not complete idiots, you know!
Rita Pizzuto •
Simon, I for one am ready to risk all that I have (which is next to nothing thanks to GonziPN) and vote for PL in order to truly form part of Malta as Malta taghna lkoll and not to a bunch of nincompoops who degraded us into a third world banana republic.
