CHRISTMAS is just a week away but the season of goodwill to all man has still not arrived in poor old Kyproulla.
We are still in the season of bad will and selfishness imposed on us by that mean, miserable, moaning maniac Hadjiklamouris, who just cannot accept that for the first time in the history of the Republic, his pathetic public parasites will get what they always rightly deserved – a zero pay rise.
Instead of coming to terms with reality, he has been in denial, acting like a complete madman in his public appearances, frothing at the mouth, viciously spitting out threats, lying, abusing politicians, telling off hacks and urging his blood-sucking members to take revenge in the courts for the injustice they suffered.
It has been a good demonstration of how social dialogue, which union bosses have been clamouring for, was conducted in the past – aggressive union bosses bully cowardly politicians into agreeing to all their demands and consensus is guaranteed.
For as long as the compassionate comrade was in charge of the social dialogue, consensus was achieved, but the rest of the politicians, including his finance minister, eventually recognised that the guy only wanted to play Father Christmas with the taxpayer’s money and pushed him aside.
The wage freeze was imposed without a dialogue and although the comrade publicly apologised for this, Hadjiklamouris just could not accept that he was no longer running the country.
THE STRIKE he called on Wednesday, without warning, showed that he had lost the plot as happens to most dictators, when they sense their power is slipping away. The action he announced on Wednesday had only one objective – to show that the power-mad union boss was still calling the shots.
The strike started on Wednesday lunch-time and included sabotage of the legislature which was to approve the wage freeze that afternoon; all legislature staff walked out and made sure that the sound-system would not work. The session was held in the afternoon without microphones or stenographers as they also went on strike, but the wage freeze was approved.
And the strike was to continue all day Thursday when the budget was originally to have been debated and approved. His dictatorial instincts were also evident in the detailed orders he issued as regards which medical service would be working during the strike. The hospitals’ casualty ward “will operate with skeleton staff that would provide care for very urgent cases”. He generously allowed the operation of intensive care units and the ambulance service would respond only to “very urgent cases”.
If staff could not decide whether a case was urgent or very urgent, presumably they were meant to call Hadjinut-case to tell them.
THE MAD Hadjidictator also instructed his parasites not to work at the polling stations on Sunday and not to vote in the municipal elections, as a protest against the decision for the wage freeze which was taken without his approval being sought.
Not only did he try to sabotage the approval of the budget, by forcing the legislature staff to strike, he also decided to get today’s election postponed as a show of his fascistic power.
Urged on Thursday by an assortment of politicians and the government to lift this measure so elections could go ahead, he self-importantly declared he could not change the decision, without convening the organs of the union and there was not time to do this. He also told his leeches that they did not have the discretion to decide whether they would work at the polling stations.
Hadjimoumouris stuck to his guns, speaking on a Friday morning radio show, even after it was reported that 90 per cent of the public parasites had told the election service that they would work at the polling stations. An hour later, PASYDY publicly conceded defeat, announcing that it was lifting all the measures – the parasites would work at the polling stations and would also vote.
The public humiliation of the miserable, moaning, maniac was the best Christmas present Santa could have given us.
WHERE did it all go wrong for the power-mad PASYDY dictator? Bad judgement. He thought because he could order around the cowardly comrade nobody would stand in his way. He under-estimated Kikis’ kick-ass capability and paid for it.
His other miscalculation was that he thought he was the leader of a union of militant Trotskyite revolutionaries who were eager to rise against the system. And because a few hundred of his members demonstrated outside the House on Tuesday, he thought that he was in charge of the Red Brigades.
The deluded fool did not realise that his members are civil servants, 95 per cent of whom are servile, docile, timid losers that brown-nose everyone in authority in the hope they will reap personal benefit.
What chance was there of these guys not turning up at the polling stations today, especially as they would be paid anything between 300 and 500 euros for a day’s work? They would never betray the civil servant’s true values – selfishness and greed in the name of duty – so that their mad leader could make a political point, from which they had nothing to gain.
PROUD Constantinos Yiorkadji must have breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the municipal elections would be held after all. A cancellation would have wrecked his carefully planned campaign which reached its climax this week, his posters featuring at the capital’s best vantage points and his commercials being broadcast on every radio station you tuned into.
His rival candidate Constantis Candounas, has already pointed out that the man who will make Lefkosia not just proud, but also ‘friendlier to its residents’ (whatever this means) had spent much more money on his campaign than the €30,000 maximum stipulated by law. But can there be a maximum on what one could spend on a Christmas present, which is what the Lefkosia mayorship is for proud Constantinos?
PARTY of high principle DIKO also had a generic radio commercial for the municipal elections which concluded with the punch-line, “DIKO backs the capable”. I would take this boast with a pinch of salt as one of the capable candidates backed by the party four years ago was comrade Christofias, whom it now disparages on a daily basis.
BIG BAD Al Downer gave DIKO a reason to be happy last Monday when he announced after the Ero-Tof meeting that property talks were “fairly unsuccessful”. DIKO’s spokesman Fotis Fotiou issued an announcement, saying “at last, he tells the truth”.
For two or more years, Fotiou complained, Al “methodically and systematically gave misleading picture of the talks, constantly talking about progress and successful development of the negotiations.” But lies could not last, Fotiou concluded.
“We are of course not happy about this,” he hastened to add, explaining that “first we, the Greek Cypriot side, urgently want a settlement.”
As long as there are no asphyxiating time-frames, to tell the truth. In contrast to the lying Al, DIKO always tells the truth.
CHRISTOPHER Hitchens, the British author, essayist and passionate atheist, who died on Thursday in the US aged 62, had a Cyprus connection. Not only was he married to a Cypriot with whom he had two children and lived for a time in Ayios Andreas, but he also wrote a book about the Cyprob, focusing on the coup and the invasion.
An Olympian drinker, who said he drank to make people less boring (not to forget the Cyprob), Hitchens once wrote that his daily consumption of alcohol was enough “to kill or stun the average mule”. He was also a heavy smoker, which was more heroic in the age of obsessive, healthy living and fitness, than his campaigning atheism or his support of George W Bush.
The following, published in a US newspaper, was a good illus
tration of his contempt for healthy living: In 2005, he wrote about a skiing trip to Aspen and an encounter he had after stepping off a ski lift. “I was met by immaculate specimens of young American womanhood, holding silver trays and flashing perfect dentition,” he wrote. “What would I like? I thought a gin and tonic would meet the case. ‘Sir, that would be inappropriate.’ In what respect? ‘At this altitude gin would be very much more toxic than at ground level.’ In that case, I said, make it a double.”
SPEAKING of atheism, does Archbishop Chrys know that the man he is set to anoint at as the patriotic candidate for the presidential elections of 2013, Yiorgos Lillikas, is not a very regular churchgoer? That is putting it rather mildly, as Lillikas often referred to himself as an atheist.
He had told a group of diplomats, after the Etnarch was voted out, that he was almost excommunicated by the church because of his atheism. Then again Yiorgos never had any qualms about changing his beliefs for the advancement of his political ambitions in the past, so I would not be surprised if he has suddenly found God, embraced Greek Orthodox dogma, became a regular churchgoer and started taking holidays at Mount Athos.
Many atheists become believers, usually after a having some Divine vision with the presidential palace in the background. Yiorgos could also argue, that Hadjipetrou’s humiliation showed there is a God.
AS THIS is the season of goodwill, we thought we should write something that portrays Fanieros’ beloved president in a positive light, even though it throws into questions his claims of close friendship with Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy.
The comrade’s view about the domination of the EU by France and Germany was reported in an analysis about the previous week’s EU summit, published in the authoritative, German magazine, Der Spiegel.
The magazine wrote: “Cypriot president Demetris Christofias described the dilemma in a nutshell: ‘We really ought to engineer a revolution against Merkel and Sarkozy, but each one of us needs the two of them for something’.”
If Spiegel considers the comrade’s view worth using in an article, on an important issue, perhaps we should start taking him seriously.
There was another memorable summit-related quote, reported on the BBC with regard to the David Cameron’s stance. A French diplomat was quoted as saying that ‘Cameron wants to go to a wife-swapping party, but not take his wife.’ I have to agree with Cameron on that.
WE WOULD like to apologise for not promoting the Christmas spirit in this week’s shop, but we would like to finish with some good news. Comrade Tof, in a luncheon given on Tuesday by the Polish ambassador on the completion of his country’s EU presidency, said he would not be standing for re-election.
This is not the good news. The good news is that he was under a lot of pressure from AKEL (as if anyone in the party would dare tell him not to stand) to seek re-election, he said. He also told ambassadors at the lunch, that many personalities of our society were urging him to stand again, but he was resisting, for now. The impression given to the ambassadors was that he may be persuaded to seek a second term.
At least now we can enter the new year with some hope.
“Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re at home”, said Carol Nelson.
