I think I should start recycling some of my posts from two years ago
I’m not a big fan of ‘I told you so’ (it’s such bad form) but I am not at all averse to giving one in the eye to those who deliberately fed a hate campaign against me, a campaign which intensified the closer the general election drew, many of them people I know, with the viciousness that is invariably closely allied to stupidity, like tools who didn’t understand at all that there was only one reason the Labour Party needed to target me deliberately and undermine my credibility.
Now they have been hoist by their own petard and are looking like fools and idiots, desperately trying to salvage some last vestige of their self-respect and the conviction that they did the right thing, despite the fast-dawning realisation that they were used by individuals whose only aim was to grab as much stuff for themselves as they possibly could, and stuff politics, policy, corruption or the country.
They didn’t want to get rid of corruption. They wanted the chance to be corrupt themselves. Now do you get it?
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Konrad Mizzi is pulling our leg. I would have loved to say the expression in Maltese because it really fits him but you will not allow it.
[Daphne – Try me.]
Bil-Malti jiehdu f’sormu bina.
To the youthful and linguistically-challenged director of communication at NP HQ, it’s “taking us for a ride”. Maltese English strikes again.
Actually, I don’t think that the problem is CONrad Mizzi. Con was the acceptable face of the smash and grab artists inhabiting the PL headquarters in Hamrun, a second Louis Grech if you will.
I’m sure he finds it, how shall I say, pleasurable.
In-naħa tagħna nużaw “jibilgħu f’sormu bina”, id-dojoq jgħidu “jieħdu f’għajnu bina”, meta jkunu jridu jgħidu li xi ħadd qed jgħaddina biż-żmien
Where is Louis Grech these days? Off on extended leave?
“They didn’t want to get rid of corruption. They wanted the chance to be corrupt themselves.”
Sums it all up quite nicely.
Indeed I’ve been saying since the election that the primary reason the pn lost so miserably is that they weren’t corrupt enough.
If the PN was corrupt it would not be in the financial dire straits it is today. It would have sorted itself out just like the PL is doing with gifts such as Australian House and the like.
That individuals within the PN were corrupt, yes, probably, but not the PN itself. This is were it differs from the PL. The PL is rotten to the core.
They didn’t need a ‘chance to be corrupt”.
They were corrupt even before being elected, the difference was, they could not get their paws in the cookie jar.
Now they can and have been doing it for 19 months and will not be through until they empty it.
They have quite a few role models in the party to emulate: Sant, Holland, Mintoff, the ones who were caught smuggling spirits and other goods at Ghadira but claimed they did not know the laws despite being MPs, etc. They did it and they got away with it thanks to the PN at the time. I hope the next PN government will put them where they belong when their time comes.
For all of their past crimes.
Exposing all that they did and are doing.
Especially the ones who are dead.
This has to be thrashed out.
It’s not a question of not forgiving, that’s the easy part and we are the victims.
It’s a question of self-respect.
It’s good to reuse, recycle and reduce.
[Daphne – Oh David, but then what would you do? You would get withdrawal symptoms.]
If I get withdrawal symptoms I could not reduce, recycle and reduce again.