Comments on: Supermodel Silvio gives up on the old ladies

By: kenneth Spiteri

kenneth Spiteri — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:33:28 +0000

Everybody wants an alternative to PN, but a valid one, again if that alternative is not strong enough, and with JM I don’t think it will be enough strong because he doesn’t have the qualities to lead, then yes we can stick with PN for another 50 years…

Just to notice to everyone out there, PN is always evolving so people don’t care to vote PN for a million times….

Cheers all

By: Edward Clemmer

Edward Clemmer — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:45:58 +0000

@dcg–Silvio writes: “I am personally convinced that the majority of youths wanted an alternative to the Nationalist government, but on the other hand the Labour Party was not convincing enough for them.”

When I initially read this in the newpapers, the defective logic, given the reality, zoomed in on me: A MAJORITY OF YOUTHS (and others) WANT AN ALTERNATIVE TO NATIONALIST OR LABOUR GOVERNMENTS–not just to Nationalist government. So it behooves both political parties to put on offer what is appealing to a majority of the electorate. If the Labour Party continues to be unconvincing [or should the Nationalist not be convincing, then the electorate will suffer a poverty of choice. But as long as a political party moves and adapts to contemporary political realities, that party may be [become] convincing.

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:21:37 +0000

@ DCG

Looking at Silvio’s deer-in-the-headlights expression hardly induces me to think that Dear Silvio has the werewithal to pass on to his dear youths (sic) “the analytical skills they need to see things clearly and make sound judgements”

The plastic roses stunt precisely showed that he has nothing in his head except where his next fix of gel and open-mouthed photo sexxin is coming.

By: marika mifsud

marika mifsud — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:57:24 +0000

I heard Evarist Bartolo and M L Coleiro yesterday (Dissett repetition)
Bartolo repeated that they have to work to solve the problem of young well educated people coming from Labour families refusing to vote Labour.
Does Parnis think he is the solution ? Maybe Jaysin is !
M L Coleiro comes over as having learnt a set piece by heart and repeats it word for word.

By: Carmel Scicluna

Carmel Scicluna — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:56:28 +0000

Ghaziz Sivio Parnis,
jien ragel ta’ erbghin sena. Gej minn familja Laburista akkanita. In-nanna niftakarha tghid li n-Nazzjonalisti kienu tal-”pappa sinjura” u ahna l-”partit tal-fqar.” L-unika darba li vvutajt Labour kien fl-1992. Kont ghadni ‘one of those youths’ u vvutajt Labour mhux ghax konvint imma ghax kont ghadni miniex kbir bizzejjed biex nivvota b’mohhi. Ma nhossx l-icken rimors li tlaqt mill-M.L.P. Anzi, veru nhossni kuntnet. Posti huwa fil-P.N. Gieli ppruvajt ninnamra ghal ftit mal-”Greens” … imma dik kienet sahna ta’ mument. L-akbar sodisfazzjon ghalija huwa li fl-1996, fl-1998, fit-2003 u fit-2008 ivvutajt lill-partit li nhossha haga mill-aktar naturali li nkun affiljat mieghu. Marti, hbieb tieghi, nies mit-triq tieghi, zghazagh u ohrajn jirrakkontawlek l-istess esperjenzi; jigifieri m’jiena nghid xejn ta’ barra minn hawn. Il-Labour sirt nistmerru b’qalbi kollha. Difficli hafna biex nerga’ ninghaqad mal-folla hamrana. Il-5 ta’ Gunju dalwaqt maghna. Jien wiehed minn dawk li rrid lil George Abela akkost ta’ kollox lider tal-MLP; l-uniku bniedem normali minn fost il-kontestanti l-ohra. Biss, jidher li l-magna tal-MLP qed tahdem fost id-delegati biex jinhatar il-Ginger lider tal-partit. Lil Ginger ma rridux lider ghax ifakkarni f’Sant u jaqbadni l-hakk. Affari taghkom, Silvio jekk tridu tifel ihammeg fil-harqa politka jitqabad fl-arena politika ma’ ggant formidabbli politku bhal Gonzi. Affari taghkom. Jien mhu se niddejjaq xejn nerga’ nivvota PN ghal xi legislatura ohra, u ara tahseb li jien vuci dezert. Iftah ghajnejk u ghajnejn l-MLP. Jekk tridu tkomplu tirrovinaw lil partit ghamlu lil Toni Abela deputat lider u hallu nies tipo Jason Micallef u ‘l Manuel Cuschieri jigru ma’ saqajkom – dawn assolutament ma rridx narahom b’ghajnejja fuq it-televixin. Ghandkom ic-cans. Bniedem normali bi kwalitajiet ta’ lider li jibdel il-partit mill-qiegh, inehhi l-qrusa, l-odju u l-mod infantili kif tahdmu l-politka. Bniedem li jghaqqad il-fazzjonijiet kollha. Dak li ghandkom bzonn. Tinsiex, ghaziz Sivio. Nies bhali jiddeciedu min jitla’ t-tarag ta’ Kastilja. Mhux il-141,888 inewhu – dawk daqs in-nghag ta’ Bendu jiswew. Fi kliem iehor: il-Lejber irid jaghmel dak li jghidulu nies bhali. Inkella se tibqghu b’sormkom inkullat mas-siggu ta’ l-Oppozizzjoni. U nibqghu nghidulkom: Nivvota Labour? I***bb*b!

By: Malta_Guy

Malta_Guy — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:39:13 +0000

I guess his idea is to indoctrinate these “under 18s” in these “educational institutions” during the repeater class that MLP proposed and believed in…actually do they still believe that we should have a repeater class?

Someone should ask this question and others that were important cleavages in the last electioral campaign to the new leader (what a word) ‘hopefuls’…I wonder if Maria l-Maws (aka Varist) is still in favour of this, or will he define it as another mistake of the past (during his time as Education spokesperson for lejber).

By: Phaedra Giuliani

Phaedra Giuliani — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:10:13 +0000

Scathingly brilliant! Straight as an arrow and just as deadly!
Did you really mean Greaseball? Really, really greaseball or di you mistype the first two letters. what?

By: AM.SA

AM.SA — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:08:13 +0000

It appears to me like Silvio is living in the 70s – 80s. That was the time for brainwashing through Xandir Malta for a socialist generation. He doesn’t know that now young people know their rights, have a brain of their own and they don’t settle for what they are told or fed.

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:56:36 +0000

Daphne – Hilarious!

As for the bit about Labour families not being able to convince their children to vote Labour, it’s good to see that they think with their brain instead of with their rear end, no?

By: Vanni

Vanni — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:17:36 +0000

I really hope that Silvio will never have any say in the Labour Party’s policy, and I am not being nasty.

It seems that he reckons that it is OK to ram politics down the throats of young people. Worryingly, if he has his way, he plans to target “the under 18s, who will be voting in five years’ time.” And I think that when he wrote “educational institutions” he was referring to schools. So following his reasoning, all 13 yr olds should be exposed to Labour politics at school?

So if Silvio gets his way, will we be having politicians delivering speeches during school? Or is he thinking along the lines of appointing political Commissars? Silvio should wake up and realize that this is Malta, and not North Vietnam or China. I can assure Silvio that few Maltese parents will take kindly to having their kids brainwashed.

When will politicians realize that whilst they find politics very interesting, other people may prefer to watch stones grow.