“For example, the ridiculous adjustment to the minimum wage led to protests, meetings, complaints, and foot-stomping from many business lobbies, a large portion of the same people who don’t feel the rising cost of milk but will benefit from tax cuts and subsidies if they exercise the privilege of sending their children to independent schools,” he said.

“On the other hand, negotiations with teachers’ unions about better conditions often lead to industrial action.”

“For the the record, Malta registered the second-lowest increase in minimum wage across all of Europe, and all the former Warsaw Pact countries registered higher increases than ours.”

“Frankly, Labour cannot speak about having a social conscience; at best, there is a poltergeist wandering around their headquarters at night, screaming frightening things like ‘social justice’ and ‘decent wages’.”

He said that while he has enormous respect for the PL’s new CEO Leonid McKay, his appointment amounted to nothing more than “placing a socialist CEO into a den of unprincipled children who only care about legislating in favour of the elites”.

“The party that traditionally represented the oppressed, the poor and the workers who were beaten up by the British when they protested for bread, food, wages, and rights, the party that remembers Dom Mintoff once a year, is the same party excluding at least 16.1% of the population from society.”

“By cutting taxes and subsidising the privileges of those already doing well, Abela and his team are sending a clear message that they don’t care about the poor and that the votes of the wealthy are worth more to them.”

“According to the government, these people contribute nothing to the economy, neither through the taxes they pay nor through their consumption. Many of them are Maltese people who have fallen behind due to a market that was allowed to steamroll freely over them in the name of the ‘elite’s’ profits.”

“The results of this “trickle-down” economic policy are clearly visible: those at the bottom have to wait for the crumbs that fall from above, and so far, all they have received are unsustainable increases in rent and property prices, higher bread prices, higher milk prices, subsidies on food and energy, higher import costs, a decline in the quality of life for thousands of people, and an increase in poverty figures in Malta.”

“Perhaps the PM might be tempted to place the corpse of Manuel Dimech at the entrance of Mile End. Who knows what kind of buzz he’ll have at night with the Labour Party’s social poltergeist.”

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