WE ARE just fed up of all these bleeding-heart, lefty, liberals of AKEL and KISA standing up for the so-called rights of the illegal immigrants, posing as asylum seekers and political refugees.
We also resent their suggestion that we Greek Cypriots are behaving in a racist way towards these lazy, uncivilised scroungers, living a life of luxury at our expense and beating up our cops when their welfare cheque is few days late arriving.
We are a warm, hospitable people but, but when our guests show total ingratitude and take advantage of us, we have every right to react. How long must we tolerate these ungrateful immigrants, taking our money, setting up ghettoes, provoking our schoolchildren, getting free snacks at our schools and disrespecting our culture?
Kindness and compassion have their limits and ours have been reached. When you hear that immigrant families are being paid €6,000 a month by the state for doing nothing you have every right to feel angry and hard done by, even if you are a public parasite yourself.
Only the other day one of our customers saw an immigrant family of five come out of a BMW at Le Meridien in Limassol where they were booked to stay for the weekend; they were having some improvements made to their luxury flat and did not want to be in the way of the workmen. How many hard-working Cypriots can afford a weekend break at a super-luxury hotel?
With these generous hand-outs we have become the most popular destination for the Third World freeloaders, most of whom are Muslims that breed like rabbits. In 10 to 20 years we will become a minority in our own country which would have been turned into an Islamic Republic, with Arabic as its official language.
THESE are very real dangers that our so-called progressives are totally blind to. That is why they immediately defended the Palestinian kids at the Vergina Lyceum, ignoring how they had been constantly provoking the Cypriot kids.
The Cypriot kids’ concerted attack on the Palestinians was not racially motivated, as it superficially seemed, but it was a sincere cry against the injustice and discrimination they had to live through every school day. The Arabic-speaking kids were being given preferential treatment by the teachers who, according to one student, “were being racist towards the Cypriots.”
So why did KISA and AKEL say nothing about the racism against Cypriots practised by the teachers? More importantly, why did the students not attack the racist teachers who were the cause of the problems instead of the provocative Palestinian kids?
EDEK chief Yiannakis Omirou said the violent incident at the school was caused not by racism but because the government did not have an immigration policy. That was pretty smart fence-sitting by Omirou, who did not bother to say what policy he actually wanted.
In fact none of the campaigners against the immigrants who attack the government’s lack of a policy every day consider it necessary to suggest what should be done. Only Zacharias Koulias has taken a practical stand, drafting a law proposal whereby immigrants would receive no money from the state – they would be provided with housing, food and clothes but given no welfare cheque. If the law were passed, deputies could make political capital by accusing the government of dressing illegal immigrants in Armani and Gucci gear.
The truth is that the only immigration policy we would applaud would involve building big rafts, putting all the illegal immigrants on them and towing them out to sea. It is a policy guaranteed to save the taxpayer significant sums of cash and end discrimination against Cypriot school-kids. It will also spare us from having to hear the Eurococks and other ultra-nationalists moaning every day about illegal immigrants.
OUR TALENT in organising ourselves into interest groups is unrivalled. It was therefore no surprise to read about the existence of the Pancyprian Association of Employers of Foreign Domestic Helpers.
The Association, according to a press report, wrote to the House Interior Committee to protest about the new rules imposed by the interior ministry for the employment of foreign maids. It strongly opposes the ministry’s decision to increase the wages of foreign maids, as this “puts an added burden on the budgets of vulnerable groups.”
I do not know who the president or the members of this ridiculous association are but their cheapness is truly admirable. You have to be a certified penny-pincher to believe that the €450 a month you are obliged to pay your maid is too high. Of course, it is not their pockets these philanthropists are worried about but their real concern is the added burden on the budgets of vulnerable groups.
Such is their sensitivity for vulnerable groups that they are intent on cutting a few more euros from the lowest-paid workers, who cannot qualify as a vulnerable group because they are immigrants.
ONE GROUP of our fellow citizens is having great problems organising themselves into a club/association – gays, lesbian, bisexuals and transsexuals. Gays, lesbians etc wrote to the interior ministry back in November asking for permission to form themselves into an association that would campaign against discrimination and promote acceptance of different sexuality. The grouping would also try to have same-sex marriage recognised by the state.
The perm sec at the ministry, Lazaros Savvides, afraid to take the responsibility of issuing the approval, has decided to ask for the views of four other ministries – labour, justice, health and education – before taking a decision. What business is it of any ministry if gays and lesbians want to have an association? They are not breaking any law, so approval should have been a formality, but Lazaros, has resorted to delaying tactics to avoid taking a decision that would be savaged by traditionalists and other ultras.
Even if the ministries give positive views, he has cleverly placed another safeguard against having to approve the application. Before taking a final decision, he told Phil, he would also consult the Archbishop, a well-known advocate of gay and lesbian rights.
FORMER president George Vass, who recently turned 80, will be laughing all the way to the bank after managing to sell his company Middle East Market Research Bureau (MEMRB, known as Kema in Cyprus) to the Nielsen Company for a super-cool $65 million.
In a letter sent to the Kema staff, Vass had this to say: “I am contacting you today to inform you that MEMRB has reached the end of its career as an independent, family-run market research company. I am now 80 years old and my children have chosen different careers… My main concern has been to ensure that the supply of data and services to our clients continues and that the future of our loyal employees is assured.”
It would appear that the future of Kema’s 80 loyal employees is not assured, because most of them would be made redundant. Nielsen bought the Kema client-list rather than its operation, which meant a very small number of workers would keep their jobs. Understandably, Vass’ loyal employees have been demanding some compensation from him, but despite involving the unions, they have had no luck. Vass, through a representative, has told his loyal employees that he has no money to pay them any compensation. Hard to believe from someone who has just deposited 65 million bucks in his bank account, but he claimed that he had many debts to settle and could not afford to give his loyal employees anything.
OUR MOLE at Nielsen has informed us that when the purchase price was agreed, Nielsen had stipulated that three million of the 65 million greenbacks would be used to pay compensation to staff as it had no intention of employing more than 10 of Kema’s workers. But Vass has pocketed the three million, claiming poverty.
The story, which does not end there, illustrated that apart from being an Olympic penny-pincher, Vass is a super-cunning businessman as he is now trying to force Nielsen to rent his Kema building which would be left empty. He has told Nielsen that if it rents the building he would be able to afford to pay his loyal employees the compensation that is already in his bank account. I suspect Vass is a member of the Pancyprian Association of Employers of Foreign Domestic Helpers.
SOMETIMES you have to wonder about the sanity of our politicians. They genuinely believe that their decision to introduce stewards at football matches would stop hooliganism. The argument is that this was what they did in England and it worked.
Did nobody tell them that stewards are inside the ground telling people where to sit and ensuring their orderly departure at the end of the match? But what happens if there is violence outside the ground, as was the case last Sunday in Limassol?
STAYING on the stupidity relating to football matters, it was a big surprise to hear that the Attorney General had initiated an investigation against Apoel spokesman Panicos Hadjiliasis in connection inflammatory comments he made before a ‘high-risk’ game.
Hadjiliasis had accused the ref of a match of being totally biased against Apoel and warned that if there was a repeat performance at his side’s match against Omonia, “they (dark forces) would find all Apoel supporters in their way.” It was the kind of statement that is made every week by club spokesmen, who are not renowned for their high intelligence.
Anyone who has heard Hadjiliasis’ public statements would know that the police force is wasting its time, because stupidity is not a criminal offence.
NOBEL laureate Chistophoros Pissarides was back on the Cyprus radar last weekend to attend the Man magazine’s Man of the Year, glam award ceremony. He sat there for hours in order to be given the rag’s Man of the Year award. The guy has won the most prestigious award in the world, does he really need the recognition of some provincial, glossy rag that is using his name to promote itself?
This is not the end for Pissarides either. I hear the Bank of Cyprus has also jumped on the Pissarides bandwagon and is organising a big award ceremony for the LSE professor in Greece. What award would he be given we do not know. It could be 200,000 free points on his credit card, or an interest-free car loan.
COMRADE president Tof finally shared his wisdom with us about the fall of Hosni Mubarak last Sunday. He said: “All those who today shout and offer recipes to the people of Egypt and Mr Mubarak, should have first, if they genuinely consider him the dictator, etc etc apologised to the Egyptian people for backing Mr Mubarak for 30 years.”
Just like the comrade apologised to the people of the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland etc etc for backing the their communist dictators for more than 30 years.
A QUESTION for the ubiquitous police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos, whom we see and hear more often than the comrade president: is he going bald or has he had a hair transplant. If it is the latter he should complain to his doctor because he has not done a very good job. The top of his head looks like a lawn that hasn’t been watered enough.
