Se arma la del cuatro de agosto!

My dear, the phrase que se arma la del dos de mayo has grown into insignificance; ahora se dice que se arma la del cuatro de agosto!

You are telling me, Y que mal tiene que one of Her Majesty's ministers should visit our Gibraltar? That is the question I ask.

You have hit the nail en la cabeza, El Moratinos otra vez morao, y eso que el ministron Hoon was in our Gibraltar a short while ago, y porque pisa British soil again, hay quien se enfada in Spain.

Esto es politiqueo and nothing more, porque Gibraltar is the last thing many Spaniards have in their minds.

Como que parece que vuelve la sombra de Franco, caramba.

Es que los del Ministerio de Santa Cruz are always cross. Se enfadan por nada. I mean, imaginate if we got upset porque un Spanish ministron visited La Linea, in fact, that is what they should do, porque tienen al Campo abandonao. .

All they can think of doing in the Campo is installing petro-chemical industries que echan toxic fumes por los cuatro costao. Y de eso, que mata mas que un submarino, que no se enfade nadie!

Y el Chief Ministron se va a Los Barrios to celebrate their 300th anniversary como pueblo. I ask the question: Will the alcaldes come to Gibraltar on 4 August to celebrate our 300th anniversary?

They could help us hold hands between La Farola and Sotogrande, if you ask me.

Y al Chief Ministron los alcaldes le invitan to integrate more in the Campo, as if we were another municipality and he was our alcalde.

Te dire que the one to meet the alcaldes should be our alcalde, and not our Head of State, We have to keep a diplomatic balance, it's so obvious.

Y ahora nos dicen que los external borders of Europe end at La Linea, pues mira que bien, should we not undo all the harm that Europe has been doing to us?

That is a good question for the Chief Ministron to answer, what we cannot keep doing is get a slap on one side of the face and put the other.

Have no fear the ex Governors are here! Y fueron al museo, of all places, instead of meeting the ordinary people.

Es que estan las cosas upside down, esto no lo arregla ni la feria!

Y el Miercoles te comes el coche con patatas, porque no se puede aparcar anywhere. We'll have to park in La Linea,

What poor planning, my dear. Someone should have sent out a disused aircraft carrier and we could have parked on it. In fact, we should buy one of those before they send them to the scrap yard and use it as a parking area on a permanent basis.

What a bright idea. On that point I say Three Cheers for the 300th anniversary.

Que viva our Gibraltar! Tally-ho!

Watchdog

By Joe Carseni

PLENTY OF £££s GOING OUT THE WINDOW

If you stand outside 6 Convent Place, you might be lucky to catch a few pound notes flying out any of the windows because if you ask me, I'd say that's where it's going.

£36,500,000.00 is the cost to run the department of Public Services, Environment, Sports & Youth.That's the latest figure I have. And who do you think pays for all this ? That's right my friends... it's you and everybody else that pays taxes. But the attitude by our Government,and some of those they employ, has been one of "Who Cares". I have a good job, I have a good salary and I am a big fish in a small pond and the money I am spending, it ain't mine...

Wrong my friend...the money being spent is also yours as well as everyone else's and Mr. Caruana should get it through his skull that when he was voted for the Chief Minister's position, he was being entrusted to act as a leader and as an intelligent manager of funds to run Gibraltar.

If I were to list in detail where and how the above figure of £36,000,000.00, I would be needing more than just a column, I would have to ask for a special edition just for the Watch Dog. So, instead of listing all those executive positions,I'll list the departments showing next to them, estimated running costs:

PUBLIC SERVICES,ENVIRONMENT, SPORTS & YOUTH

 

TOURISM & TRANSPORT

£6,737,000.00- and that's just the cost of running the department. Forget about the money that they blow en comelonas y festejos. That is just money needed to get the wheels going and is applied as follows:

 

HOW DOES THE GLOVE FIT YOU (COMO SE TE QUEDO EL CUERPO) ??

We have a Government that refuses to spend our money wisely. We have a Government that needs to cut/trim some fat to reduce expenses and does not.

We have a Government that ignores small infrastructure repairs. We have a Government of far too many chiefs/executives or whatever Peter wants to call them.

Gibraltarians have the power(I'd like to call it PEOPLE'S POWER) to get the Government to change both attitude and pueblo mentality that they have. We should make sure that Peter Caruana is aware of how people are feeling towards his way of governing. And, if that doesn't not work out...Then it's time to change...

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