Comments on: The Poodle and chocolate economics https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Tony Pace https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/#comment-5710 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:38:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=333#comment-5710 Once again guys, the poodle will be the show stopper.

]]> By: Amanda Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/#comment-5709 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:58:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=333#comment-5709 And I thought that several million Liri of “reserves” were deposited in a Swiss bank account in the name of a then top Labour man’s girlfriend. (Who, rumour has it, then dumped him once the cash was in her name …)

]]> By: Amanda Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/#comment-5708 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:51:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=333#comment-5708 Mod – “Do you think it’s time to bring out the generator?”

Yes, Mod, and “rejuninIte” them (sic)

]]> By: Amanda Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/#comment-5707 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:47:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=333#comment-5707 Gerald Fenech – You said “I must admit I have trouble with JM’s constant smirk but otherwise he wasen’t so bad”

If I am not mistaken, in a post a few days (weeks?) ago, you said that JM had “an aura about him which is disarming”.

Was that a u-turn?

]]> By: john https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/#comment-5706 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:09:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=333#comment-5706 You’re so right, Kenneth Spiteri: Joseph Muscat is an amateur. Alfred Sant didn’t use to make these mistakes and left the myth-mongering for the likes of Manwel Cuschieri. Yesterday I was shocked not only at the pruzunzjoni per se and the “Jason-still-has-a-lot-to-give-Labour” but even more at the increasingly obvious fact that Labour will have a new leader that is an amateurish copy of Alfred Sant.

]]> By: PR https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/#comment-5705 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:04:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=333#comment-5705 Well done to Reno Bugeja for showing the clip when Dr Muscat is questioning Eddie Fenech Adami on doomsday EU scenarios. Dr Muscat’s reaction was brief whereby he stated that some of the things he mentioned turned out to be right. I listed VAT on food and medicines, retirement age, overtime, additional taxes, tuition fees, 100 miljun. The only one he got right was the retirement age and this can surely not be attributed to the EU. When he came to admit that partnership lost he was not entirely honest, as he stated that following the general election, with the benefit of hindsight, one can conclude that the partnership lost. Dr Muscat, the referendum was a yes vote to the EU and the only reason that an election was called in its immediate aftermath was because Alfred Sant in his high watermark of democratic credentials claimed the opposite was true, adding to the uncertainty the country found itself in. A huge chunk of the Alfred Sant legacy will be shed the minute the next Labour leader admits to the fact that the EU referendum was a yes to the EU vote full stop, without adding any considerations of the general election having a bearing on determining which way the referendum went.

]]> By: PR https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/#comment-5704 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:00:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=333#comment-5704 To Dr Muscat’s credit he has no trace of the evasive manner of answering questions which Alfred Sant had. He did answer confidently every single question. I’m wondering what he meant when he said that during the campaign he gave his services to the party but they were not utilised to the full. Was it a move to distance himself from the campaign? Or was he alleging that there was some antagonism towards him?

]]> By: kenneth Spiteri https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/#comment-5703 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:44:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=333#comment-5703 yepp man JM is another DILETTANT..that’s all..i’m praying god to be elected..so i can relax for about 15 to 30 more years…hehehehe

]]> By: john https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/#comment-5702 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:23:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=333#comment-5702 Joseph Muscat yesterday repeated this Labour myth that the Nationalists spent the Lm400 million foreign reserves Mintoff/KMB left in 1987 and ran up a huge deficit to boot. This is simply a myth which is repeated by almost all Labour apologists.

The Central Bank of Malta foreign reserves at the end of 2007 were Lm1,087 million – more than double what they were in 1987 (see Net Foreign Assets – Central Bank of Malta in this link http://www.centralbankmalta.org/site/excel/pr/stat_rel_02_2008.xls ).

With his DBA and everything, Joseph Muscat simply does not know what he’s saying!

]]> By: Simon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/04/the-poodle-and-chocolate-economics/#comment-5701 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:08:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=333#comment-5701 It seems that the poodle has a habit of plagiarizing speeches, MLK, Blair, Cameron. I am sure that Obama will be next once he obtains, as expected, the nomination from the Democratic Party. Hope that when copying and pasting Obama’s speeches, he remembers to omit the parts relating to the Iraq war, unless he wants to link PFP with that war.

He might also want to come up with his version of “Poodle Girl”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU

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