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On 13 July, I put up a blog post about Alfred Sant's approach to the Eurozone crisis and how it differs from Joseph Muscat's - click: I'm with Joseph on this one.
Sant's is not really a position. He was, is and will remain opposed in principle to Malta having the Euro as its currency. Typical of the man, once he takes a position absolutely nothing will change it.
He is still against Malta's EU membership, a position he took in the late 1960s, and never swayed from it. Today he simply does not express himself openly on the subject any longer.
Gays come out of a closet. Sant's aversion to Europe has gone the opposite route. He was out when he was party leader and is now in the closet now that he no longer is. But locked up in the closet he is as anti-EU membership and by implication Eurozone membership as ever.
Six weeks have gone by since I put up that post. With the fuss over the passage of divorce legislation and the subsequent summer recess, Sant's pot went on the back burner and got cold. Now with the opening of parliament not far off, the former Labour leader is heating and stirring it again.
Today he wrote not one but two almost identical articles on the matter in The Times and The Independent. And that will certainly not be the end of that as far as Alfred Sant is concerned. In both newspapers he stated that he will be writing more on the subject in the coming days.
Where is this tsunami of Alfred Sant words on the Eurozone leading to?
He titles both articles 'The Euro Crisis and Malta'. Yet rather mysteriously Malta features only in the last few sentences and even then only vaguely. What is he up to?
A storyteller doesn't give the plot away before the very end. We shall have to wait and see what happens next.
4 comments:
Alfred Sant is a political has-been with even less of a following than the two old goats who preceded him in the MLP.
I admit I only skimmed through his tediously long article but I noticed he's ruling our devaluation which is a welcome change from when he was leader of the opposition.
We've all (more or less) seen him at work when in charge of Malta's economy; why is he still posing as an economist?
Lou, I shall not be presumptuous like you and try to sit you down for a quick tutorial because in your case it would take me ages to explain Sant's article; which obviously you have gone through but evidently hardly understood.
My humble advice to you however is to seek proper guidance on such matters from people in the know before you rush to express your opinion. I'm sure that Prof. Edward Scicluna or Mr. Lino Spiteri (just to mention a couple) could enlighten you on this.
Moreover, I found your comparison to Gays in very bad taste indeed. Was it really necessary to drive your sordid point home?
Thanks Henry for arranging the tutorials. While you are at it could you arrange tutorials on other profound Santian concepts like Partnership, Svizzera fil-Mediterran, Golf Course on Mghatab, Repeater Class, Parties not contesting local elections ... And one last favour if you don't mind. Could you get Lino Spiteri to give me a double tutorial on Sant's masterpiece - the replacement of VAT by CET.
I thought that you were the expert at this! By the tall order you presented, it would take us ages to get you through all the subjects.
Hint: you might find some answers to your queries in your own closet!
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