The Labour government continues to avoid questions about its energy purchases and instead keeps organising self-ingratiating and self-congratulatory propaganda shows to brag, for the 1000th time, about its great benevolence and financial acumen in issuing subsidies to keep electricity bills low.
They also produced a Eurostat chart which has been public for some time, supposedly intended to impress us.
The Energy Minister even went on to say that energy subsidies are a long-term investment in the Maltese people and that the government has no plans to replace them with a long-term strategy. Subsidies are recurrent expenditure, and they are not, by any means, an “investment” or capital expenditure.
Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said that the government has successfully brought down the deficit despite the issuance of subsidies and added that he will present these figures tomorrow at a press conference at 12:30.
The government is in a stage of unprecedented banality, arrogance and classism, manipulating the discourse of the Opposition and bragging about matters on which it does not even understand the very fundamentals.
This spectacle is sad and very undeserving for the Maltese people, who deserve much better than this corrupt clique of liars who want to fool the people all the time.
The Energy Minister is avoiding questions and refuses to be transparent for mainly two reasons: to hide corruption and to hide gross incompotence. Bragging about a policy of never-ending subsidies to hide your incompetence is third-world thinking, not an “investment” in the Maltese people. An investment would have been a strategy that would have diverted the money for the subsidies into valuable capital projects that would wean us off subsidies.
These people hate us and hate our country – literally.
You can watch the full press conference here.
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