Dear Government MPs: Where's the 'honour' in 'honoraria'?
Some MPs attend 99% of parliamentary sittings and still have time left over to take chummy pics with Brangelina. Most do not, however, and yet they have awarded themselves a €500 weekly raise. Incensed? TCM is. Thermonuclearly so.
Dear Government MPs,
I don't normally do politics, but the amount of facebook and internet coverage of your recent balls-ups means politics keeps hitting me in the face every 20 minutes or so. Nobody hits me in the face and gets away with it.
So I gamely tried to find out something about you lot and naively pointed my browser in the general direction of www.pn.org.mt. I’m happy to say that I managed to survive the obscene grammar and orthography (barely), but was still unable to find out who's a cabinet Minister, who’s an MP and who’s a Parliamentary assistant, let alone their portfolios. Thankfully, www.gov.mt does a slightly better job, although you still have to click on every single MP to find out who’s who and who does what (not much, it seems, but I digress).
So what, you have just awarded yourselves a pay increase of €500 per week-you deserve every penny for doing such a good job and with such dedicati... damn it, I’m in such a state I can’t even pull off sarcasm now.
I can’t do this, sorry guys. I’m too depressed. I have never worked harder nor been poorer. But wait, I have a cost of living increase too! €1.16!! I can now afford to buy an extra sausage roll. A week. Oh, deck the halls with bunting and rejoice!
Screw depressed. Now I’m not depressed, I’m angry and that makes me even less funny, so I won’t even try to be.
Standby-tirade in 3...2...1
You bunch of arrogant, lying, spongeing, two faced, lazy bastards, how dare you? 81% absenteeism? Is this a farking hobby to you? Last I checked, hobbies don’t earn people an average of over 24 grand a year. Try doing that in the private sector, you’d be out on your arse in a fortnight. How dare you accept such a generous pay package and not turn up to work? How dare you award yourselves two salaries and zero accountability? How dare you have the gall to say you will “follow your conscience” when your electorate have made their choice clear? How dare you tax everything into oblivion and not deliver progress on anything but your pet projects? How dare you stand meekly by as Air Malta and Go employees (whose employment, may I remind you, you had promised to safeguard before the last election), are being laid off, as well as other workers who have already been dismissed from other companies. How dare you take us for fools and tell us everything is peachy and getting peachier when it plainly is not.
The list of “How dare you”s could go on and on, but I do not wish to be a PL mouthpiece, plus they’d probably have done the same given the opportunity-
and that opportunity will come, soon enough...
Up yours you idle fat cats, Yours sincerely in considerable anger
TCM
http://www.facebook.com/ThiCharmingMan
Comments
Well, since out MP's have this as a part time job and some of them don't even attend, I was thinking that they should make space for some gainfully unemployed folks such as myself. I promise that I would take it as a full time job for the same pay and be present on each and every sitting. Sick or not, raining or snowing, I'll be there.
I couldn't agree more. The only explanation that comes to mind, regarding how they dare, is the same one for why dogs lick their balls.
"If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention" seems quite an appropriate quote lately...
