Comments on: We are intol(l)erant of criticism

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:59:44 +0000

“Harry Vassallo thinks he has won the election because AD’s votes added to those of the Labour Party together exceed those of the party that is governing.”

Let us for a moment imagine that four men are playing, say, Scrabble. Gonzi gets 49 points, Sant gets 48 points, Harry gets 2 points and Josie gets 1 point. Would it be fair for anyone to say that Gonzi lost the game because Sant’s, Harry’s and Josie’s total points amounted to more than Gonzi’s alone?

The winner is still the winner, no matter what his “opponents'” cumulative score is. But then we should never have imagined that Harry would reason that way, should we?

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:11:22 +0000

Veru kaz ta’ ‘water under the bridge’

Tal-Lejber are falling over themselves clamouring to secure jobs in the PN administration…. Silly me, I was Labour(!)ing under the impression that we are not of the same family!

By: Peter Vassallo

Peter Vassallo — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:10:26 +0000

Jista’ Harry Vassallo jfisser lil poplu Malti kif qatt seta jifforma Koalizzjoni fil-parlament. Ir-rizultat ahhari seta gie MLP 34, PN 30 u AD 1. B’dan ir-rizultat ma tifformax koalizzjoni. L-uniku mezz ghal Harry li jkun f’Koalizzjoni kien rizultat ta’ MLP 32, PN 32, AD 1. Impossibbli kif juri sew ir-rizultat. Harry u shabu kienu jafu li ma jistghux ikunu f’Koalizzjoni imma ghamlu dak kollu possibbli biex issir hsara kemm jista’ jkun lil PN u hadu taghlima. Issa jaqbel ninghaqdu biex naghmlu gabra forsi Harry jhallas id-dejn li ghandu mal-VAT u jiffranka xeba’ habs. Narawk Harry

By: Joe Martinelli

Joe Martinelli — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:27:30 +0000

This slim NP victory has put a tremendous burden on Dr. Gonzi with respect to delivering a very ambituous programme and also to finding a solution for the JPO affair. I suspect that there is substantially more to this problem than meets the eye.
I am certain that Dr, Gonzi will administer with a firm hand while being fair. His Ministers and backbenchers have to bend backwards not only to keep the government going for the next five years but also to to heal a lot of wounds out there which resulted in so many spoiled and uncollected votes. Had all those people voted, then I am sure that the NP’s majority would have been much larger.

By: Tony Pace

Tony Pace — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:19:42 +0000

Jo Said, once again, get real man.

By: europarl

europarl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:41:11 +0000

There's something about Jason:

By: Il-Pajk

Il-Pajk — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:28:05 +0000

I think the time has come for all moderate Labourites to start considering the formation of a new party with true center left principles. How about Laburisti Popolari Maltin?

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:42:27 +0000

Francis V. – I think that his comment to hear was the straw that broke the camel’s back, seeing that so many people have been “thinking” about her on Daphne’s blog! (And despite the fact that she hasn’t commented on it – under her real name, at least, that is – rest assured that she probably has been following it, judging by the verbal vomit she wrote in her various articles today … Miaow!

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:39:41 +0000

@ Francis V

Maybe she has the hots for ‘the one with braces’ like she has for our dear AS…and this is the closest she can get to the ‘loo man’ (her quote) to putting her knickers in a twist.

Has anyone told that Marie ‘Champagne Socialist’ Benoit that toilet humour reflects a puny mind? Just like her dear friends Dr Licari who regularly writes in The Times pissing all over his writings…Mind, yesterday’s offering from the learned Doctor was totally devoid of jolly humour.

So let her sip champagne with her own brand of honourable gentleman – one nearly drove the country to ruin in 96-98 (not mentioning the no regrets over anything that made our lives hell in the 70’s and 80’s etc etc etc) and the other brand of honourable gentleman – Harry, who doesn’t have the time to fill in Vat forms, shirks from paying a fine, applies for a presidential pardon and then drags his poor wife and kids to a press conference all the time lying through his teeth. So my dear Ms Benoit, you keep some company! No wonder you need booze.

By: S.Grech

S.Grech — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:54:46 +0000

Never has a tongue twister has been more appropriate to describe a person’s ability (in this case – Harry’s political carrier)than the following:-
HARRY HARA HARJA FUQ IL-HAMRIJA HAMRA TAHT IL-HAJT TA’ HAL GHARGHUR!!