Meeting with a switcher

Published: November 22, 2014 at 7:52pm

This was sent in by ‘Old Friend’.

Meeting with a switcher (who thought I didn’t know) this morning:-

Me: Hi. Haven’t seen you in a while.

(pleasantries)

She: And what do you think of this Manuel Mallia saga?

Me: Disgusting. Imagine what it would’ve been like had it been Austin Gatt’s driver. I’m surprised people like you are commenting. X told me you had no qualms in voting for Manuel Mallia last election.

She (shocked that I dared mention it): Well, to be honest I thought he was one of us. I never expected this behaviour.

Me (post scoffing): I did. Thanks for lumping him on us.

She: Don’t be like that. There were 36,000 other people like me. We needed a change.

Me: Only 18,000. And f*** the change. We were doing damn well with all its faults.

She: We’re never going to agree on that. It was nice seeing you. Oh and X is a loudmouth. I thought I told her in confidence. Do a lot of people know?

Me: I don’t know. But I’m glad you’re ashamed. Ciao.




11 Comments Comment

  1. X'Arukaza says:

    There are people within politics that non one wants to employ not because they don’t have skills but because they are unbearable kieshin.

  2. KS says:

    If there were no change, we would have had a better five years. Then what?

    As much as it seems things cannot be worse, I’m afraid we would have been on track for something even worse five years down the line.

    Eventually a change of government is inevitable. I cannot see how five (or ten) more years in Opposition would have made Labour any better.

    • ciccio says:

      Hopefully a few years of a Labour government will show them for what they truly are and will put them back in Opposition for another 25 years.

      • Oscar says:

        Ciccio, mhux li kien, but I think we’ve got the bastards for another 8 years mate, and it’s downhill all the way.

      • Deja Vu says:

        Bear in mind that in 1987 almost 48% of the voting population voted for more of the same.

        Unfortunately the two main political parties are held to different levels of scrutiny. Whereas we expect manna with barbecue sauce to fall from heaven when the PN are in power, we are content to just avoid being beaten up or our livelihood taken away when these scoundrels are in power.

        The only way to break this cycle is to throw the law book at them once they lose power, because reconciliation does not work with these lowlifes .

      • PWG says:

        Difficult. When thinking back to the 1981 and 1987 slim majorities and Labour’s comeback, just 10 years after the PN had saved the country from the clutches of a dictator, an economic disaster and the possibility of a civil war, I despair.

        Most of the switchers with a PN background will ultimately see sense. It will take much longer for the social climbing switchers with a Labour background who now think they’ve arrived.

        Lack of democracy and the complete collapse of the rule of law never bothered the Maltese much. It was more the chocolates that had eventually tipped the scales.

    • Tabatha White says:

      2013 was the crucial election for Labour:

      Any other election after that would not have been a clinch.

      2013 was the only time left to reinvent themselves siperficially with the help of the remaining old guard in position.

      They were desperate. They still are.

  3. observer says:

    Iffissati fuq ‘is-sitta w tletin elf’ – kollha kemm huma.

    U ghalxejn tipprova tispjegalhom, ghaliex cwiec kienu, ghadhom, u jibqghu sa l-ahhar tad-dinja.

  4. Adrian says:

    Some of these switchers were in fact very proud of their good deed to the nation. I wonder how they are feeling now.

  5. Mahniex says:

    I also was a switcher but I switched again – and I’m proud of it!

    It was so costed, concrete and doable, especially when I started having daily nightmares of getting shot for clipping a car mirror.

    Maybe it’s all just a perception. After all, I failed to heed the warning shots fired into the air before the last election.

    If Joey is ready to stand by his man and his man is a lying toad or a convicted gay criminal, it is time I stood away from him and stand by Conchita Wurst instead.

    Good God, these politicians have got my neurones into such a mix that I should just retire home and watch Baby TV or Xarabank for a year or three.

  6. Pepe' says:

    I too met with a switcher some months ago, but it was a he not a she, and he is Gozitan so we skipped the pleasantries.

    All he said was: “Haqq al-L&%$” x’xghamilt b’idejja!”

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