Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando's reply to George Micallef
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has just issued this statement to the media, in response to George Micallef’s statement.
Statement by Dr. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando.
I have read in detail the Statement issued today by Mr. George Micallef.
I am unaware of what prompted Mr. Micallef to issue such a Statement at this particular time whilst Police investigations are still under way.
In view of such investigations, as Mr. Micallef may be well aware, I am unable to fully reply in detail about the incorrect, misleading and untrue comments made by him in my regard, and brought to the attention of the public at this stage – which stage has been described by the media as the final stage of the investigations in which the Police authorities are expected to refer the matter to the Attorney General. I am also unaware as to what or who prompted Mr. Micallef to adopt a tactic which dictates that in order to defend and seek to justify his own involvement in this matter he has to attack me personally.
I will however, at this stage, limit myself to confirming, in clear and unequivocal terms, that:-
I have not at any stage exercised or attempted to exercise any undue pressure on any public official to do anything short of his duty or to act in any way contrary to his convictions, conscience or responsibility.
I do not have any direct or indirect involvement or participation in the ownership, operation or management of the then-proposed project referred to as Spin Valley.
I had been advised by the tenant leasing out my property (situated in the immediate vicinity of the Santa Rosa restaurant, entertainment hall and recording studio complex) that he would seek to obtain a permit by the competent authorities for the formation and operation therefrom of an open-air entertainment establishment. Whilst I was aware at the time that this was being deemed as a limited-scale development, I have now confirmed that this had in fact been planned to accommodate a total of about four hundred patrons (as opposed to the four to eight thousand indicated by the then Leader of the Opposition and the Malta Labour Party media)
As previously publicly stated, beyond this I was not aware of the details of the project and, in fact, the first time I saw the plans and details of the full development application submitted was when I was shown these at the Police Headquarters. I also do not know nor had I ever met the actual applicant – who was not the same person with whom I had signed the rent agreement.
I confirm what I have consistently stated to journalists who have contacted me in these days in which I am being subjected to intense media pressure in order to give full details of my involvement in this case, namely that:-
I have fully cooperated with the investigating officers, replied to all their questions and have given them a full detailed statement; and
I am more than fully prepared to make a public statement of my entire involvement in this matter and to answer to the questions that have been put to me, as soon as the investigation and its outcome are concluded.
At that point I shall be able to freely state all details of this case as are known to me. In doing so I shall definitely not wilfully seek to explain or justify my actions by pointing fingers at others.
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We love you Jeffrey, we do. We love you Jeffrey, we do. We love you Jeffrey we do….oh Jeffrey we love you!!
Please stay, don’t listen to those that are asking you to resign. Life would be so much less interesting LOL!!
Hi I voted PN in the last election and consider myself a Nationalist. However I cannot but disagree with you with the way you’re trying to defend JPO! Pasting JPO’s reply to Micallef’s comments without pasting Micallef’s comments in the first place shows which side you’re supporting!
[Moderator – P, there is a link to George Micallef’s statement, in big bold letters, at the top of this page. What you say is a ‘defence of JPO’ is actually a defence of democratic choice. We would be saying the same thing about Alfred Sant if he were forced to resign; and Alfred Sant lied about the result of a national referendum on one of the most important issues in the history of this republic.]
Dear Jeffrey, I wish I could believe you but…..However I am not going to draw my final conclusions until the result of the police investigation is made public.
Am I wrong in thinking that il-Pajk has biased wishes?
Let’s wait a few more days for the Police report guys….
But I cannot help but comment how news is being reported.
1) Times of Malta reported George Micallef statement at 13:30 and JPO’s at 17:18.
2) This blog did not mention Micallef’s statement before myself and others brought this to the attention of fellow bloggers, but saw fit to put an entry with JPO’s statement (and a link to Micallef’s) at 17:15
3) Maltarightnow chose not to mention anything.
4) Maltastar ‘addirittura’ knew about what Micallef was to say last Saturday! No mention of JPO’s counter, of course!!
Obviously this site is a personal blog, so it’s up to Daphne and Mod to put entries as they deem fit. Also,both myself and others had already referred to the Micallef statement, so I’m not accusing anyone on this blog of impartiality.
I believe that this whole case is bringing out the worst in us Maltese. We love seeing someone in big trouble love passing judgment on others with a condescending know it all attitude.
The man in the cheap wig must be so proud of himself. I am sure he banked on this reaction, especially now that he is history, in his mind I am sure he must be gloating to himself and his cronies that he took down somebody with him.
Everybody continues to play to his tune.
I strongly suggest everyone lets things unravel themselves as they will in due course. What happens then is up to JPO and to a lesser extent Laurence Gonzi
Apologies all. Maltastar is mentioning JPO’s reply (in a sense) but is also saying:
“Unfortunately maltastar.com did not receive Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s official reply thus we cannot publish his view in toto”
Huh?
@ Lino
Il-Pajk is struggling to do the right thing – waiting for all the answers from the appropriate sources unlike the many rabid hounds snapping at JPO’s heels.
Why, yes, the picture is not looking pretty and lots of questions come to mind that need answers but like Il-Pajk I prefer to wait for the police investigations to be concluded before drawing my conclusions.
The statement was not circulated to broadcasting news editors. when it is, we will obviously carry it.
What a load of provincial politics!
The dollar is collapsing, the whole world is about to find out about the Banking Cartel’s long term pyramid scheme, the EU is becoming the SU, while Daphne & Co here discuss provincial JPO politics tal-Kunsill Lokali ta’ Malta.
How pathetic!
Grow up people. There’s a whole world out there and it’s changing faster than your mainstream media are telling you.
@ europarl
If we are so insular why on earth do you bother to read this blog and post? Go back to your Winter Wonderland
europarl, if you don’t like discussing these things you’re free to leave… go and take a walk, it’s a lovely night outside… :)
I see Kevin Ellul Bonici’s parachuted in from the Afghan fields wearing his europarl cape and tights to rescue us from mediocrity.
You presume to know rather a bit more than is healthy for anyone to know about anyone else. How do you keep tabs on what we all think, watch, read, hear and talk about? Do you have a Panopticon Media Detector And Mind Reader (EU patent pending) installed in the bowels of your Top Secret Underground Headquarters?
You need to remove your tin foil hat and broaden your horizons a little bit, Kevin. The dicussion here is less about Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando than about the distribution of power and the mechanisms of a functioning parliamentary democracy, a topic, you will find, that is not wholly unrelated to the crises you mention. If that doesn’t seem clear to you, it’s because we’re speaking in Top Secret Code that Only Ordinary Mortals Understand.
Gee thanks Europarl.. I had no idea! Here in redneck country we don’t follow the noos on dem new-fangled computer maychines and all we watch is Jerry Springer on the TV in the trailer.. It’s a damn good thang we got people like y’all in Brussels to tell us what’s goin’ on. And may I say, mah mah that’s a mighty fine high hoss you ridin’….
Gerald Fenech: As head of Smash news, you could just lift the statement off this website or any of the other websites where it appears. If you have any doubts about the accuracy of the published version, ask the source to confirm it.
oh yawn, what does Alfred Sant have to do with this case? This reminds me of a school yard at break time, where a kid used to call another kid fatty and the other kid would get back at him by telling him that his cousin Charlie was fatter.
Alfred Sant was totally wrong reacting to the referendum result that way, but surely this has nothing to do with that, will we ever grow up? Daphne is right saying that JPO should not be made to give up his seat in parlament. That is his prerogative and if he feels that his political career is more important than GonziPn then I am sure that he can convince us that this is a Sant/MLP/Mepa/Ministry of Tourism conspiracy.
When will we learn to debate something without bringing up something that has nothing to do with the subject? What’s next? The Labour violence of the 70’s and 80’s?. No wonder politicians on both side of that I-need-a-makeover hall in Valletta get away with such dodgy behaviour.
[Moderator – Alfred Sant is not a straw man. His case was used to point out that no matter how irrational an MP is, everyone is free to vote for him at election time and no one ever calls for him to resign his seat if he gets elected. In the UK they have Screaming Lord Sutch and in Malta we have Alfred Sant, Josie Muscat, Emmy Bezzina and Imperium Opera. Normal Lowell is a horrible man whose personal failings probably outweigh those of any other candidate. But it would have never crossed my mind to pressure him to resign had he been elected.]
Let us not pass judgement on anyone until we hear all versions in court. JPO left no stone unturned to defend himself from this ‘Terrinata’. Passing judgment on others , without hearing all evidence amounts to ‘lynching’.
There are people out there who know the ropes ,when it comes to the manipulation of public opinion.
I concur with what europarl wrote ; we are not aware that we have another Wall Street crash on our doorstep , and we are trying to pass judgement on someone without knowing all the facts.
This is like when on the morning of the ninth of March 2008 there were the so called experts predicting the election results when no real valid information was available.
So let us just be patient and leave justice take its coarse.
Europarl…. gimme an effing break!!! What could possible have possessed you to come up with that unbelievably haughty, sickeningly patronizing and nauseatingly conceited post??? If it were for the likes of people like your spouse and, I would assume, your good self, we’d all still be firmly ensconced in the parrochial backwaters of our ‘provinces’, or barricaded behind our noble bastion walls, repelling the hordes of (jaqqqq) European invaders intent on stealing our livelihoods, focusing exclusively on the microcosm that is our little rock (almost Arkansas, isn’t it?). If the ‘No’ lobby had held sway, the “whole world out there” would have been remoter than ever, pretty much of the ‘See but don’t touch’ variety. Provincial politics indeed! Give it a break, mate.
Amrio: not in Brussels, it isn’t.
At one time there were a lot of references to chickesn on this blog.
How about some references to chickens coming home to roost now?
Cluck, cluck!
:) :)
Europarl,
You really have some cheek. Your spouse tried desperately (I assume you were backing her up) to keep us isolated from “the real world”. She tried to keep as as backwards as possible by keeping us out of the EU she has made her new home.
Can you imagine Malta today not being in the EU?
Thank God she failed miserably.
Meerkat,
The police can only accuse but not convict. So I will furthermore await the outcome of a trial should there be grouns for accusations.
Good blog. Certainly so by Maltese standards.
Five words of sincere (could almost be fatherly) advice to JPO.
Por que no te callas ?
With apologies to King Juan Carlos.
John Schembri: Irony escapes you. If you agree with Europarl’s accusation of provinciality, why do you continue in the vein he criticises?
Victor Laiviera: Remember what happened the last time you counted your chickens before they hatched.
On a separate note, why do you keep on using those smiley icons? It’s rather unbecoming in a person of your maturity.
@ lino
I’m replying during Bondi+ break so forgive me if I don’t get back to you asap
Until no trial is pronounced, we can only wait for police investigations outcome…One step at a time, mate.
@ Corinne
The fact remains that AS did not speak up when confronted by JPO. Why? This is the great mystery.
So the moniker Chicken still sticks.
@Becky of Sunnybrook Farm
Well done Becky! I couldn’t have answered europarl any better..
Say ‘Hello’ to the Ozarks for me and if you meet up with Jed Clampett, or Grannie, or Ellie May, tell them I said ‘Howdy!’ and to expect me for vittles next time I pass by.
Who knows, perhaps europarl might relish discussing high falutin’ Brussels topics with Jethro!!!
@ Europarl
As usual you come across to us poor mortals in your condescending manner. For the last time, pls get off your high horse. It may avoid fresh outbreaks of nastiness.
Oh and slagging us off elsewhere will not help you in putting your message across here.
BTW, I do tend to agree that there are important things happening at this very instance elsewhere on our big blue marble. For example I have not seen much mention on the blogs I visited about the goings on in Tibet. Now I find that a real pity.
Malta Parliament, 2008
PN – 34
MLP – 34
JPO – 1
I’m lovin’ it
@Meerkat – seeing the replay of the PBS showdown on BondiPlus, I can see now that Alfred Sant didn’t look so much afraid as unsure of himself and his information. Remember that he didn’t have the two single sheets of the contract copy at that stage. He wasn’t sure of his own information – that was clearly a long moment of self-doubt.
Well if we had to look at the British way of doing politics,then yesterday for example, David Cameron was filmed breaking four road laws – including going past a red light – in 22 minutes.
Tory London mayor hopeful Boris Johnson had no sympathy for him and declared: “We should have zero tolerance of cyclists when they break the rules.” David Cameron is the leader of the Tory Party as I am sure that all of you know.
Would that ever happen here? I agree in principle that an MP cannot be asked to resign, however if I was a PN supporter then I wonder if I would be happy seeing his grin in 5 years time. As a Maltese citizen, well I can understand why you would defend his legal position, but I really think that we expect a little bit more from our MPs this day and age.
Meerkat :) I won’t argue with that.
@ Anthony Felice – if you don’t mind, I’m going to translate your Spanish for those without the benefit of a dictionary.
‘Why don’t you keep quiet?’
Hey, it’s Victor Laviera again.
How nice to see you, missed you at castille but there you have it.
Chickens coming home to roost you say? You mean having FINALLY got rid of the man in the cheap wig?
I voted for JPO for your information and am proud of it! It was the wigged one who convinced me to do so.
@ Merkaat
My friend, is it maybe because this time around, AS got lucky, and unbeknown to him, the mud he slang happened to have some hint of truth in it?
OMG, come to think of it, this could be the worst part of the story – AS could this time be proved right!!!
Victor Laiviera – Yes, one of the chickens seems to have just ventured back.
Don’t you think it was a pathetic Bondi plus episode this evening? Don’t think one can ever discuss anything in the absence of the directly involved. So what happens two know-all jounalists spitting out all sorts of nonsensed allegations on the matter and trying to put the blame on Roderick Agius instead (with the help of Lou Bondi’. BTW – poor Lou Bondi performances, in today and last week’s shows in my opinion.
I guess smiles are few and far between on this blog at present – so I thought I would provide a few.
if AS did speak up when confronted by JPO it would have been worse .
a good question why should he ?
a good mystery is how can you have a press card in less than 24 hours??
So far I have not seen one iota of proof that the words pronounced by JPO before the election were conscious lies on his behalf.
That his idea of the facts might not have been accurate may well be so.
It is VERY easy to play the cynic and sneer that “of course he knew what was going on”.
I’m sorry, i still believe in people until I am faced with undeniable facts.
I’m glad that Victor Laiviera has shaken off his post election blues(no pun intended)and is so happy and relaxed that he uses smileys to sign off. Yes he has a penchant for counting chickens before they hatch.
All I can say re JPO is that I voted no1 for him out of 14 PN candidates. My position as one of his electors is one of wait and see. I have full confidence that JPO knows his duty to his electors and above all to his country. Let nature take its course. The wheels of justice turn, slowly at times, but they do. At the moment I’m reading Guido Demarco’s Politics of Persuasion and justice today is worlds apart from what was available 21 years ago. Let all official investigations come to their conclusion. If JPO is guilty of lying he is man enough to relinquish his seat to another PN candidate in the party list. He does not need me or anyone else to spell out what he should do. If on the other hand he is not lying those who brought him into disrepute must answer. And what about the other murky pre-election claims such as VAT returns, tax evasions etc? Or are we on selective amnesia to while away the time post election?
Meerkat accept that for once you might be wrong ! ask around nationalist officals if they agree with you on this one?
i AM MORALLY CONVINCED THAT, IF JPO HAD TO CONDUCT A SURVEY AMONGST HIS CONSTITUENTS, WHO (AS DCG RIGHTLY CONTENDS), ORIGINALLY PUT HIM THERE FOR 5 YEARS, HE WOULD BE IN FOR A BIG SURPRISE. AND IT WOULD LEAVE HIM WITH VERY LITTLE CHOICE ON WHAT TO DO WITH HIS POLITICAL CARREER.
[Moderator – A survey is no substitute for a general election, and CAPS LOCK IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR SHOUTING.]
sorry, make that “career” with no double r.
It is amazing how quick some people are to accuse and pass judgement, way before all facts are made known by the competent people. Reading their comments one would think that the whole world started at the beginning of March 2008 and that never before was there a case where somebody applied for a permit in a sensitive area.
Don’t get me wrong. If someone did something wrong, out of place, or in conflict with something or other, then it remains so. But what hits me in the face is the hypocrisy of certain people, who are so ready to accuse when they support a party which not so long ago (in the bigger scheme of life) let much graver things go by, and worse still, seemed to make them the order of the day. I am thinking of the time when I had to wait 8 months to get a renewal permit for the construction of the simple dwelling where I live, after being informed that my file was “lost” and that I had to submit everything afresh. I am remembering the story which I once read in the press, about the permit for a certain kiosk in Sliema…
I am all in favour of moving ahead and protecting what is worth protecting, but for heaven’s sake, let’s keep things in perspective regarding the JPO case. Why accuse and condemn someone prematurely, when so much injustice was meted out by people who were supported wholeheartedly by some of the present accusers? Let’s not forget the past, because the sufferings of those days can never go away.
@ Victor Laiviera – is there something wrong with your self-confidence, that you feel you can only show your ‘face’ in this blog when you imagine you have something to crow about? You’re welcome any time you like. But please don’t set yourself up as a target. It’s a little ridiculous of you to expect JPO to resign when sitting on your party’s benches there’s still a man who lost three general elections in a row, led his party down a blind alley for 16 years, and said he won a referendum when he didn’t, by counting the votes of the dead.
@Brian Hansford – I got my press card when I needed one in a few hours. And that wasn’t even in this modern age, when everything is digitalised. The point is that press cards should not be issued by the state unless this is the Soviet Union. Everywhere else in the democratic world they are issued by the journalist’s employer, or by the journalist’s union.
@ David Thake,
I remember you from the good ol’ days of the Church schools drama from the early 80’s. I respected you a lot those days. (BTW you have any idea what my friend from those days Lucio Mule Stagno is doing nowadays?)
But.. can you please elaborate on what you meant by the term ‘conscious lies’? I never heard of that. White lies, damn straight lies, politicalese lies, OK, but conscious lies?
@ amrio & Brian Hansford
So WHY didn’t AS speak when JPO confronted him?
@ Daphne
Thanks for your reply. It’s so much better than the hysterics that I got from amrio and Brian Hansford. It seems one cannot ask a legitimate question without being screamed down.
@ Daphne re Victor’s crowing…
Isn’t a crow of the feathered kind too? Birds of a feather crow er flock together…the Chicken, the Peacock, the Crow, the Anglu Bellu and the Hen (our very own Mr Hensford – he does cluck too much).
@ Amanda re Anglu Bellu’s site
Yes, I can just see Mr Hensford clucking away at the keyboard.
Just a point of info…the press card issued by DOI is technically required only for events organised by the government or government institutions and thus, valid for such events, if a press card is even asked for to begin with. Its not a license or permit to be a journalist, not at all. But when organisers of certain events want to restrict entry to “some people” they ask for the damn thing.
For example, entry into the journalists’ area in parliament requires its own press card issued by the clerk’s office, and not the DOI one.
Anyway, I’m not arguing anything here, just stating what I knew once upon a time. Maybe things have changed now.
@ Victor Laiviera.
Please, I beg you, do not smile too much or too broadly. You might rupture something!!
To Dear Daphne
I do not usually get involved in this puerile chit chat. However, with all due respect to you, if you can compare JPO’s actions to Alfred Sant’s and make him look like the hero, then one can easily understand how your son could so comforably use foul language in front of a camera whilst sitting by your side in a university hall.
I am starting to believe that your values must be truly twisted my dear girl.
To me it seems that JPO did what any other Maltese tal-bizniss do all the time, try to steer the relevant authorities to decide in their favour. The fact that “everyone” does it does not make it right of course, but I agree with Daphne that there are others stiing as MPs who have done musch of the same and probably more!
What bothers me is that JPO keeps changing his version of the degree of involvement in the whole affair. From a position of “hardly knowing anything at all” before the election it is now seeming that he was directly involved in trying to get the project approved. My questions are:
Did he lie about his involvment or not? If he did, it is a matter of opinion whether this is enough reason that he should he resign as an MP. The more worrying aspect of this would be should the PN kick him out of the party with the prospect of having to go for another general election!
Did he break any laws? We have to wait for an official answer to this, but to me there is no doubt that if, he can only do the honourable thing and resign as an MP.
Dear Mr Brian Hansford,
Thanks for your kind reply. However though you boasted about your program’s ratings, you did not answer me whether you intend to use your investigative capabilties to delve into who was behind the Freeport scandal. Maybe you can also use your qualities to divulge more information about the Mangion/Vella scandal too.
May I also kindly ask you another question? I recall your presence in a Xarabank edition way back in 1997 (during the UHM strike). Did you ever insult the UHM leadership of the time? If yes, did you ever ask for a public apology?
Independent journalists should never, ever, insult Union representatives….. oh! and please don’t tell me that during that time you were not a journalist.
And btw, the UHM was proved right for striking during that period, even if Sant’s government wanted to dismantle the Union. Did you know that if Sant won the case, the UHM would have to close down? Was that ethical of a Labour party? Maybe you can discuss these issues in one of your next editions….
Have a nice day
@ S. Grech: the ‘f’ word hardly classifies as foul language, particularly not if you are 19. If you truly wish to hear foul language, you should hear his mother, when she is watching your Irrevocably Resigned party leader twisting the truth on television.
I simply adore fowl language…. hens, chickens, peacocks…..
Cheers.. Daphne the same here…
Check this out.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2003/11/16/interview.html
I like this website but I find it hard to understand how JPO is being defended and Joseph Muscat is already taking the place of AS as a subject of ridicule.
@ Benji
Thanks Benji for the interview reminder. There are astonishing similarities between the interview mentioned and the one highlighted by Daphne.
Meditate gente meditate….
@Merkaat
“So WHY didn’t AS speak when JPO confronted him”
As I pointed out, AS included JPO in his 5-yearly mud-slinging exercises most probably w.o knowing that what he had in hand had a hint of truth in it (he’s not used to uttering truthful words you know). We all know how AS was (God, at long last I’m using the past tense when referring to him) – sputa e fuggi.
and please – don’t put my name and Brian Hansford’s in the same line, ghax numbrak!!!
Dear Daphne
Judging by the obscenities you write for the benefit of the general public, leaves me in no doubt as to the level of vulgarity you can stoop to in private
[Moderator – Get out your magic shoelaces and bring your cirrhosis of the liver on down to daphnecaruanagalizia.com! Looks like we’ve got a saint in the making here.]
S Grech: Do you wear a hair shirt and chastity belt? Or maybe you’re into casting the first stone.
Awwwwwwww amrio :-D
nahseb kont ghadni minghajr l-ewwel kafe’ hehe
Oh shucks!! better move out of the way…this could get nasty. Might get hit by sheer dint of having the same surname…ouch!!
amrio prosit you confirmed the hatred that you have for those that tend to disagree with you maybe all those that disagree should have an independent blog rather than a pn one!
moderater/ Corinne , is this Blog open to all or just pn diehards ?
[Moderator – It is open to all. In fact, we sometimes get hits from the Red Planet.]
Brian Hansford: You joined the fray a bit too late to have seen all the earlier posts on this matter: I am not the moderator. The blog is open to the blogger. The comments section is open to all opinions. You’ve left several posts all over the place. Does that make you a PN diehard?
On a separate note. What’s wrong witht the shift key on your keyboard?
OY!! I am not a PN diehard!! I take umbrage sir!! I challenge you to a duel at dawn. Choose your second and accept the gauntlet thrown at your feet.
Oooops got carried away there…..I definitely confirm that this blog is not open only to PN diehards. But really, one should be a bit circumspect and not flaunt their lack of erudition skills and limited wit. Its like waving a red (yes, yes, wholly intended) flag at an intollerent bull.
Good Luck anyway :) :)
[Moderator – To extend the metaphor: the colour of the flag doesn’t make a difference to the bull. It’s the way it’s waved that counts.]
@Benji – thanks for the link. God bless Internet archives. I imagine that was Jason the Peacock’s media debut?
@Anthony Bugeja – it’s a matter of personal taste. This is not a Broadcasting Authority debate and we are free to like whomsoever we please and say so (or not).
@ Albert Farrugia
Malta Parliament, 2008
PN – 34
MLP – 34
JPO – 1
Correction
PM – 33
MLP – 34
JPO – 2
@Brian Hansford
Dear Sir,
Are you claiming that my statement that “Labour” government sued UHM, and if it won this Worker’s Union would shut down, is a mud slinging exercise?
Mur staqsi l’ Gejtu tal-UHM ha jghidlek kemm kienet veru jew le!!!! If MLP won the case, this Union would have closed down! And the workers would have lost the right to strike…
and this coming from a so called Workers Party… Worker’s Party my foot! It’s more a left wing party…
You did attend that Xarabank edition. You forgot?? oh… and you did quite a showing that day!!
Sorry guys and gals… I made a big mistake!!!
Actually I should have written that the so called “Labour” party ‘s move to try to close down UHM was more of a far right party attutide than a left wing stance.
And I was always under the impression that the so called Workers Labour Party is a left wing party!
Left wing my foot! If the so called “Labour” government won that case, UHM would not exist anymore! And workers would have lost the right to strike… even the GWU would have lost the right to strike for government introduced measures…. anke bil- Issa Daqshekk motto…
Did you get your memory back Mr Hansford?
Guzeppi Grech – Why is it that all the pro-MLP comments have a double “l” in the words tolerance, intolerance, tolerant, etc?
Are the authors all one and the same person, or do you all use the same Elve (sic) Comment Generator? Just asking …
@Amanda Mallia
Thanks! I hadn’t noticed that spelling mistake. I’m actually quite chagrined, I’m kicking myself for not noticing this chink in my linguistic armour.
Do I share this with other authors as well?
Anyway, I should not be included in the elves list. This is the only persona I have posted as, in any of the blogs floating around. I think the moderator can confirm this.
Now, to rid myself of that “lapsus”
Intolerant, intolerant, intolerant, intolerant, intolerant, intolerant, intolerant.
OK..that should do it :)
@Brian
Hatred? Me? Why? I never uttered words of hatred in this blog! I speak my mind, and in fact, sometimes, in this blog, I get told off from all sides of the political spectrum.
If you are referring to my comment to Guzeppi re: not putting my name and yours together, I thought it was blatantly obvious that I was joking, so apologies are forthwith if you took that comment personally.