"Sir" Bob Geldof addressing HSBC & Vodafone business breakfast fund raiser (Malta):
“I run a couple of businesses, and if somebody were to come to me after crossing thousands of miles of desert from Mauritania, looking for a job, I don’t care how many degrees he has or hasn’t got, I’ll give him a job. Anybody who is prepared to go through all that to find work already has a comparative advantage over others.”
“Immigration is a critical problem that will continue to face Europe and rest assured that it won’t go away. Unfortunately, the EU showed it is not serious about immigration as it has left small countries who are at the root of the problem like Malta in the lurch with a pathetic grant of a couple of million euros. That’s just about half an hour’s fuel consumption for a destroyer.”
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May I add;
"This is the beginning of the problem and it needs to be addressed extremely seriously, but Malta cannot be left on its own. You have a population of 350,000 people. What happens when there are 30,000 of them (illegal immigrants) - which is nothing, yet it would be ten pet cent of your population? People would start getting racist - fear of the stranger taking their jobs - so the matter has to be dealt with,"
Anybody who is prepared to go through all that to find work already has a comparative advantage over others.
Many Maltese are not prepared to leave behind their families, their wives and their children. We cherish the values of the family more than we cherish money.
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Now what you do not know is that this Bob Geldof has a thing for saying all the nice words in front of the cameras but behaving differently during the show. According to what someone who attended his concert told me last night upon returning home (and putting "Bob Geldof is the biggest asshole I have ever seen" for his MSN nick),
this most noble man Bob Geldof saw it fit to lambast left right and centre the bands on the lineup that played before him, claiming they were crap and if it weren't for their "waste of time", he could have started playing earlier. Sure, they were most probably crap, but why not practise what you preach: tolerance and enough decency?
At one point, someone from the audience started screaming the name of a song he wanted played.
To which Sir Bob KBE replied "Yeah, we'll do that later, now just shut the fuck up."
There you go.
I am quite surprised the illegal immigration issue is still present in this day and age. I thought two "revolutionary" Live Aids were enough to solve the problems. <insert sarcasm on Live Aid/Live 8 here>
Many Maltese are not prepared to leave behind their families, their wives and their children. We cherish the values of the family more than we cherish money.
It's not a question of cherishing family values or not. It's a question of survival. It's pointless saying that us Maltese won't do the same - because we're not in that situation.
And when life in Malta wasn't that good, many went to Australia, Canada and the uK. They didn't want to leave their family - they had to.
Whether Sir Bob is a nice person or not, is irrelevant. He made a lot of sense.
And when life in Malta wasn't that good, many went to Australia, Canada and the uK. They didn't want to leave their family - they had to.
Sure, they did so (though I'm still not sure whether they all left their wives and children behind). Legally, carrying all the required documents and always stating their true origins, they had to work if they wanted to have something to eat after a day's work (no welfare benefits, I'm afraid) and moving to countries which had already stated their intentions and could actually accomodate them because scarce resources were not an issue.
Perfect comparison.
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