What a nerve
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November 25, 2014 at 8:07pm
That man in undertaker’s clothes has just shouted with split-pumpkin-face delight about a million euros in direct orders given by the previous government.
And right there next to him, Leo Brincat is sitting looking like an escaped extra from a Nazi film, minus two feet in height, when HE ALONE has given a million euros in direct orders in just 19 months for air tickets only.
So insufferable.
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OK folks, it’s time to compare and contrast. Below are two videos: the first of the press conference held immediately after the 2013 budget by Lawrence Gonzi, the second a clip from the press conference held immediately after the 2015 budget by Joseph Muscat (the fact that I can’t find the whole thing might be news in itself. Does Kurt Farrugia think the prime minister did badly?).
It is important to point out that these press conferences were held under extreme pressure for both prime ministers, Lawrence Gonzi’s government was on the verge of collapse. He was dealing with Franco Debono ringing and texting him 700 times a day (and night) and with Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Jesmond Mugliett providing the rest of the 1000 cuts. Gonzi’s eyesight was also suffering because of the stress.
Joseph Muscat is dealing with a whole bevy of scandals: Manuel Mallia, Luciano Busuttil, Helena Dalli, Chris Cardona and a bunch of other grabbing sleazeballs.
Points of note:
Joseph Muscat puts restrictions on journalists before they have even asked the first question. He tries very hard to avoid follow-up questions. Lawrence Gonzi gives journalists ample time to ask questions, lets them ask the questions they want to and in whatever style they feel is best.
Joseph Muscat dodges questions or says that he doesn’t know how to answer. Lawrence Gonzi answers each and every question clearly, thoroughly and to the best of his abilities.
Joseph Muscat has bile, anger and hatred pouring out of his every pore. Lawrence Gonzi answers questions calmly, serenely and in a prime ministerial manner.
Joseph Muscat is a one-man show (admittedly, old Edward must have needed some rest and recuperation after that four-hour marathon). Lawrence Gonzi had the finance minister on hand to answer any technical questions he was not able to answer himself (not many).
Worst of all, and like a complete savage, Joseph Muscat literally turns his back on one of his guests. (A press conference is an invitation to journalists to come and ask questions. Imagine inviting someone to an event and giving them your back when they turn up. Ten-year-olds are taught not to do this). Needless to say, Lawrence Gonzi treats all journalists, even the Super One ones, equally.
Switchers, watch and feel shame envelop you. You traded a first-rate gentleman who knew what he was doing for a pile of rubbish.
The questions in the Lawrence Gonzi start in the fourteenth minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzD1g2JtQMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI86U97uo3E
So right Matthew. Chalk and cheese but one prat.
Yes, and he has the cheek to state the he is leasing his own car to do us a favour and save the public coffers.
Someone: requirement picture/video of Herr Flick with Luftwaffe uniform.
Herr Flick is two feet taller
So right, Daphne…tal-biki dawn in-nies.
Veru funeral barra l-palazz.
Fejn huma l-Laburisti li issoltu jingemghu barra l-palazz biex jaghtu palata lil Gowi.
Jaqaw insew jiprovdulhom trasport b’xejn.
X’taghmel jekk iz zieda li taghhom lanqas tixtri biljett tax-xarabank ghall-Belt.
Iz-zieda li tana lanqas bolla ghall-pajjizi Ewropej ma tixtru biha.
Ma nifilhux izjed jitnejjek bic-cwiec, but from what I am reading here he is maneuvering around to please the Mintoffjani as he knows he has his back to the wall.
Kenneth is not a Mintoffjan, but he’s lapping it up.
Who told you Kenneth is not a Mintoffjan? That is exactly the sort of person who voted Mintoff into power in 1971. I don’t mean Kenneth specifically but most definitely his cohorts who are a few years older. It was exactly the same then to what it was in 2013 with ‘Joseph’.
Muscat is going for plan Z: appealing to the Mintoffjani. Going for broke.
He has also managed to get Manwel to be the most hated man in Malta, when Manwel will be going into every aspect – every tiny little detail – of targeted lives.
He said that it is not fair for a man who breaks his back to earn the minimum wage, when someone else is cheating the system for social benefits.
But it’s OK for him and his croonies to have 3, 4 and 5 jobs, of course without breaking their back at all.
…but by breaking other people’s backs, including mine.
It seems that this year’s panto came early.
We have a stunning comedian on stage tonight.
Perhaps we should ask Daniel (ex member of Zoo) for a round of applause from the strangers gallery once the performance is over.
Who knows he might have a better response.
He said that a new section of AFM will be the Maltese version of “Guardia di Finanza”.
Funny; the minister responsible for them has declared hundreds of thousands cash at home.
What a DANGEROUS idea! This, my fellow countrymen, is an assault upon our constitution. It means that Armed Forces members will be given law-enforcement powers, including the power of arrest.
Now we really need the British to come back. Because this is despotism at a whole new level.
All under Manwel.
This, is where the invasive terror starts if he is allowed to stay.
This, is where no one has any privacy any longer.
Tinsix li dak kien f’tal-Barrani u allura m’ghandekx takkuzah b’xejn.
We had something like that guarding banks and this corp was created under Mintoff.
Do you mean the Revenue Security Corps? That’s different. They’re AFM members, with no police powers.
The Revenue Security Corps. They used to turn up with guns and arrest people on income tax matters. That was in the Golden Years of Lino Spiteri the finance minister, but now we have to pretend that he is the new saint.
@Drinks With Vince Micallef
Thank you for saying that.
This follows the shameless, full and partisan take over of the AFM after the election: a personal friend of Muscat appointed Commander; promotions to the boys similar to kangaroo leaps; the humiliation of certain officers; the refusal of Manuel Mallia to obey the law and hand over AFM files to the Ombudsman to carry out his investigations…and now they want give these powers to this new Kazin tal-Labour.
Shame on you Prime Minister.
We told you all this didn’t we, Martin Scicluna?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141126/opinion/Political-tectonic-shifts.545723
Ghadu ma xebax jaqa’ ghan-nejk Martin Scicluna.
Kemm kien ilu jippontifika kontra l-gvern u favor joey qabel Marzu tal-2013.
Issa rega’ bdielu – u jippretendi li ghandna nemmnuh. Ahjar jinduna li zmien il-buzullotti issa spiccalu.