Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream-Tie
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June 10, 2008 at 9:30pm
I bet Lawrence Gonzi’s relieved that at last there’s a Labour Party leader who actually talks instead of behaving like a walking, talking jacket with a Miss Whiplash complex. But I imagine he’s disappointed that it’s somebody he can’t relate to as an equal. I can’t help thinking he must feel a little insulted that Labour sent the junior staff along to the meeting. But there are compensations, not least of which was the opportunity to juxtapose real charm and ease against the self-consciously manufactured variety. And Gonzi must have been thrilled to see that Muscat brought his little friend Jason along with him on a day when the cameras were out in force.
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Profile of people who already hate Joseph Muscat:
People who have always and will always vote PN, regardless of who it is made up of and regardless of the policies and ideas they disagree with.
People who have been brainwashed by NET TV, Daphne’s Column & Blog, and Bondi+.
People who think George Abela should have been elected because he reminds them of Gonzi, but they would not have voted for him in 2013.
People who think that socialists or Labourites are all low class, unintelligent and uncultured.
People who have a superiority complex.
People who are employed by the PN to destroy the image of the Labour leader before it can be built up.
:P
Paraniod comes to mind…
Caphenni – You fail to realise that people have a mind of their own, and that most of them use it. Please don’t try to tar others with your brush. Thank you.
Ah to be young and handsome. some might not like that tie. Let’s face it it’s a little too colourful, but since Joseph is a young handsome man it suits him. Now look at Gonzi’s tie – very conservative, the perfect tie for an old age pensioner, yes I will buy one like it for dad on father’s day. Wait a minute he might not like it mum had a houscoat with that pattern!
@ caphenni
Please add:
Labourites who are fed up seeing the PN actually choosing Labour’s leaders and key executives.
Labourites who are disgusted that JM has, in AS tradition, put his personal glory ahead of the interest of the party when the general electorate clearly showed they would instantly form a majority behind labour if GA were elected
Labourites who have given up on extricating their party from the stanglehold of those who think they own the party or the party is indebted to them.
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Well to believe lies you must be somewhat unintelligent, no?
And hasn’t labour always fought against education since days immemorial?
Xewka – You’re either a besotted teenager, a frustrated, post-menopausal woman, or somebody who badly needs to get her (his?) eyes checked.
Caphenni, I just hate Joseph Muscat because I’m jealous.
Xewka, Joseph Muscat is neither young nor handsome. He is on the cusp of middle age, which starts at 35, and he has the face of a squat frog. You seem to be one of those (Maltese) people who believe that fair hair and blue eyes equate with beauty regardless of the features and the stumpy body. If you want to know what good-looking means in a woman’s eyes, check out the photographs posted on this blog some weeks ago, or take a long, hard look at George Clooney.
Amanda, please enlighten me as to how I fail to realise that people have a mind :S And who I am trying to “tar”?
I think your comment would have been more aptly directed to Daphne :D
I am not saying that I really like Joseph, just that it is early days and I am still hopeful that he will bring about the right change.
I think whoever already has an intensely negative impression of Joseph is being way too judgmental way too early.
I think it would make more sense to discuss his ideas rather than his choice of ties or his approach towards the National anthem.
Again, this is not to say that I don’t enjoy Daphne’s entries. They are thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable to read. I’m just excited that for the first time I disagree intensely with what she has to say, on the subject of Joseph.
Lol that tie reminds me of the sinistro acrobaleno emblem. That tie is ridiculous in any case.
@Amanda
I suggest you try to discredit ideas rather than people.
@Everyone else
This is quite a useless discussion. We are so eager to make judgements and analysis that we are not allowing some time to actually take in anything important that is being said or done by Joseph. And this is dangerously polarizing our views for nothing.
Look at us, we’re arguing in terribly superficial ways, attacking one another and calling each other names, talking about HATE and LOVE towards a person we know very little about, and so on.
This is perhaps the least constructive and most immature thread I have seen in weeks! Since we’re all so interested and excited to be heard etc – Let’s chillout for a bit and wait for something serious to discuss.
After all, ties are subjective lol.
Oh God. I can’t believe than in five years time we can really win again!!! lawrence gonzi vs Joseph Muscat. what a joke! Gonzi just needs to be careful and do the right choices in the coming five years. we can beat them once again!!!
What’s up with face shape, tie colours, trouser length, youngness, handsomness and the size or otherwise of legs? Surely such shouldn’t determine whether one has the qualities to become a future prime minister?
I mean with all respect look at Dr Gonzi, he surely isn’t Mr Universe material either in bodily figure, facial beauty or in fashion sense, but does that (and should that?) have any bearing as to whether he is doing a good job or not? That should answer the question in my first paragraph more than adequately.
I think whether one is doing a good job as designated should be questioned otherwise, omitting beauty and fashion. Is the person following promises he made? What happened to income tax reduction? To the incentives for young couples to purchase their home? To the incentives for buying A class appliances and solar water heaters? To the incentive for the restoration of wooden balconies? That without mentioning some free light-bulbs which were promised to be distributed and probably appreciated a lot by people on a tight budget…
Fashion might continue and get better, but apparently promises get forgotten…
Mandy, don’t lump all post-menopausal women in the same basket just because of one newspaper diarist who is famously in love with Alfred Sant and who thinks that the ginger frog is cuddly. Anyway, Joseph Muscat appeals mainly to gay men. Gay women, on the other hand, think he’s a pr**k. They may be gay, but they’re still women.
And what’s with those head-pubes, anyway? Does he spend hours every morning gelling them into little spikes? Joseph, any doctor will tell you that hair gel accelerates hair loss. Unless you plan to head in the ginger wig direction, lay off the gel.
@Caphenni: sigh! Joseph Muscat is NOT NEW. He’s been around in the Labour Party since 1992, when you and my son who was in your class (if I have correctly worked out who you are) were just four years old. He has had massive exposure on Super One for 15 years at least. He was editor of the Labour Party’s ‘news portal’ (commas necessary) Maltastar.com. He has been a Labour MEP for four years. He wrote article after article telling the nation how wonderful Sant is, that EU membership and VAT would be catastrophic, that we should ruin our vote, abstain or vote No in the referendum. In the 2003 election, he played the part that Charlon Gouder played in this last election, and I laughed out loud when I heard him say on Dissett tonight that he phoned the president to wish him a speedy recovery. Oh boy, the president, who despises the prat possibly as much as I do and for the very same reasons, must have been thrilled. Joseph didn’t phone him to wish him a speedy recovery. He phoned him because he got a thrill out of doing so: “Hey you, I’m the party leader now, not an annoying Super One journalist snapping at your ankles, who you can ignore.” Why did I laugh? Because one of my most prominent memories of the 2003 election is of Joseph Muscat yelling at Fenech Adami, talking over him, challenging him rudely and interrupting him during one of those Broadcasting Authority political debates. He was so rude, stupid and uncouth that it was unbelievable. And tonight on Dissett, he said that unfortunately, Labour journalists are perceived as too negative and antagonistic. Well, he should know about that, given that he performed the role to perfection. Why is the parallel that keeps coming to my mind that of a Nazi collaborator promoted as a reward?
@Daphne
And yet, this annoying overly ambitious, ex-“journalist”, and ass-licker of Alfred Sant (unlike Dr. Daphne-thinks-I-am-God Gonzi) is promising to bring some progression and moderation to Maltese politics – something you and I have both been waiting for for a long time. The only difference between you and I is that you are using his unglorious past to prove to yourself (and your readers) that he will bring no change whatsoever and that he is almost worse than his predecessor, whereas I am still waiting to pass my judgement, and still hoping that we have a progressive and liberal voice who could possibly appeal to the majority of our population and actually bring some well-deserved change to our country.
The chances are that he is going to be fighting for the very causes that are close to our hearts Daphne, and even if we do not see him as prime-minister-material, we should take advantage of his courage and relative likeability in order to help further our causes.
I am sick of living in a medieval, Catholic Iran. And I know you are too. So how can we keep following Fr. Gonzi blindly and ignore the younger more radical socialist Joseph? How can you not be excited at the prospect of Malta getting close to enter the 20th Century with such crazy notions as Divorce and possibly even gay rights?!
I’ll tell you, at this point I’m ready to spend 5 years under the Alla-hares-jitla-il-Lejber government if it gives us the start of decent civil liberties in Malta, and gives some chance for the PN to carry out some serious reform within the party and its principles.
I think if it weren’t for your (possibly understandable) predisposition to hate everything Labour, you would agree with me on this point, since we usually agree on everything else :)
Well, Caphenni, the way I see it is this: a political party that can’t even organise a piss-up in a brewery is not going to be able to organise divorce legislation and civil partnership for gay couples. And if the Nationalist Party sees that this particular tack is going to work for Joseph Muscat, then they will move in and steal his thunder by doing the job themselves. So the most I can hope for in Joseph Muscat is that he gets the Nationalist Party out of King Canute mode, though he won’t actually get anything done himself.
Yep ties… lets talk about them. Should we choose a leader with a technicolour tie or one with a tie that looks like it was made from dressing-gown material. Yes I did laugh out loud when I saw that tie, and I did laugh when I saw JM close his eyes during the national anthem. However, I nearly cried when Gonzi decided, without any discussions with the opposition (and without even listening what the maltese people had to say on the matter) to include the Maltese armed forces in PFP. I also cried when the development zones were extended and when, in the year 2008, we are still mostly reliable on fuel as a source of energy.
I am one of those so-called crazy voters who decided to vote AD in the last election because both big parties did not appeal to me, and now there is a leader in the opposition who seems to care about certain matters. After all he was the only Maltese politician to congratulate a Gozitan inventor when he won an EU competition for inventing another way of obtaining alternitive energy.
I am not stupid, I know that most politicians want personal glory more than the contry’s good, but I hope that one day a politician’s personal glory would be equal to the country’s good.
I am a floating voter because I tend to be more loyal to my country than to any political party or particular politician, and according to me JM might be the best alternative we have right now. I think anyone who really wants the best for Malta should give him a chance, if he makes any mistakes (even from the opposition) i will be the first to change my mind about him, but if those mistakes are a horrible tie and closed eyes during the National Anthem, then I willgladly choose him as a leader for our tiny island.
[Moderator – What’s wrong with joining the PFP?]
Hi Daphne. Caphenni qed jipprova jikkonvertik! Cheers
“So the most I can hope for in Joseph Muscat is that he gets the Nationalist Party out of King Canute mode, though he won’t actually get anything done himself.”
Fingers crossed :)
If he manages to do that it would be fantastic.
@moderator
its wrong because there was no consultation with the public and PN did not mention it during their election campaign so nobody voted for it. I just think PN should be more democratic and tell the maltese people what it is they are voting for. PN should learn to trust maltese people, otherwise how can maltese people (i mean the few who actually think with their brains) trust them?
I was a first time voter in the last election and I was horrified in the election aftermath to witness the way my fellow students envision politics.
I saw with my own eyes brainwashed Nationalists being happy that PN won the election just because they could then celebrate at a mass meeting and get drunk together at Ryan’s. I actually asked one if he would still vote for PN if HITLER wasleader of PN. You know what he answered: ” I’m sure Hitler has his good things”. I’m ashamed that Maltese people are so ignorant about politics and I’ve had enough of people treating political parties as if they were football clubs or village feasts.
[Moderator – Mel, democracy normally comes into play during zero-sum games, where there are some who lose and some who gain. The Partnership for Peace is neither an economic union (like the European Union) nor a defence union (like NATO), and there is no way it can have any negative effect on any of the citizens of this country. A referendum on membership of the Partnership for Peace is equivalent to asking people, ‘Do you want something good, or do you want nothing at all?’ – in other words, a complete waste of time.
On your anecdote: the personal is political and the political is personal, so don’t be surprised when people celebrate an electoral victory or when the leader of the opposition declares his love for you.]
@ Daphne, Mandy and the rest of the club: Your posts are full of encouragement and much similar to your MEP’s message on today’s Times of Malta!
I know you pretend to preach ‘freedom of expression’!I know too that you never accept the fact that others has same right to enjoy what you preach.
Keep it up and pick anything you conclude as silly on Joseph ( Ties,shoes, trousers and whatever). In the long run it will be the ‘substance’ that will count.
I am convinced that Joseph will be a great asset not just to the MLP but to the nation.
It amazes me too that you are turning this site into a site of ‘gloom and doom’! If that is what you grave for, then you’ll soon reach your goal.
Oh God so JM is not George Clooney and I am sure DCG is no Angelina Jolie…….and Lawrence Gonzi ????tghid mhux xi Brad Pitt jew,but what does being attractive has to do with politics !!Anyway count your blessings cos if JM hadnt been elected who would you call names??
The fact of the case lie before us. they are so incontrovertible that there is no need for the Jury To retire. The MLP has made a poopy of a choice of leader. JM is not The One, much as he tries to be. He has been elected because the MLP thirst for a win, any win, in any which way, and they are hoping that JM will lead them to that particular fount… but methings that It looks like another 10 years of a PN Government, either under Gonzi or under The One we have already chosen, the one who is a real politician who does things seriously, quietly and without too much fuss. I will give you one guess who that one is.
@ Caphenni & Daphne. I have to agree with Caphenni here. We should give Joseph some time to prove himself before passing judgement.
To my mind he has already taken some very courageous steps. He apologised for the mistakes of the 80s (although maybe not strongly enough), he went on record saying he favours the introduction of divorce and the introduction of more civil liberties. I am ready to give Joseph a chance if he can bring about some progressive change and grant us Maltese the civil liberties which are taken for granted in Europe. We should not only strive to catch up with the rest of the EU economically but also socially.
Had George Abela been elected as party leader and become PM in 5 years time, no progressive social change would have been implemented.
This country really needs to move out of the middle ages and stop being a Roman Catholic theocracy.
As to the PN granting more civil liberties, introducing divorce, more gay rights etc. ….. I really do not see that that happening, for the sole and simple reason that the most influential figures within the PN sincerely think that imposing Catholic values on the rest of the nation is beneficial to the nation. That is it is done out of ‘moral conviction’ and not as a vote catching ploy.
I just said it should have been part of their electoral campaign, and I’m not against people celebrating, I like it when people celebrate it makes me happy to know that at least some are happy( unlike some who just want all labourites to cry all day long for their loss and not do anything about it), but I don’t think people should vote for a particular party just because its another excuse to get drunk. These are the people who will be important for the future of malta, the future lawyers doctors politicians scientists economists etc. I would have expected more intellegence when voting at least from them. And yet these are the same people who booed at AS during a debate without letting him speak offending not only him but the people who had organised the meeting and blemishing the name of other students who were not in any way related to the event. I would have thought present day youth to have been brought up in an environment were they could think anything they want and not be brainwashed and ignorant as they are. Luckily my mum an dad as floaters brought me up critising the things that I thought were wrong but also respecting the people who held a different opinion. For example I still think that both ties are awful but I see a lot of people with no dress sense at all, all the time but that doesn’t mean I have to offend them does it.
[Moderator – I think that I would have been more annoyed had the students sat there with blank stares, like what Kevin Ellul Bonici a.k.a. ‘europarl’ likes to call ‘sheeple’. It would have just been a repetition of religious doctrine classes. Politicians should be riled when they are pompous, cheered when they are inspiring, and booed when they are block-headed.]
@ mel, don’t get me started on PfP and NATO. If you think the pinnacle of achievement is a nine-to-five job, then go ahead and take your pick. We drained the national coffers to build lovely little Smart@rsecities for all our budding programmers. Some people want to be soldiers, and do a soldier’s job, no matter what. Who are you to deny them the opportunity?
Thank you Ronnie. It’s good to know I’m not the only one who’s thinking this way.
I think in Malta it’s always going to be a choice between the lesser of two evils.
I just think that one of the “evils” has become a little less “evil” with Joseph. I could be wrong. But I’d rather wait to judge him based on his actions rather than silly YouTube clips.
@Moderator Yes I agree, roblem is you should actually LISTEN before booing, PN supporters just showed how blind they are not just to labour party but also to people who had not yet decided whom to vote for…like me. A thing some people hate… RUDENESS. What would yo have said if there was a meeting at Bormla and people booed at Gonzi. “Ara kemm huma hamalli dawn il-Laburisti” and this is what unbiased people said about those students: “Ara kemm huma hamalli dawn l-istudenti ta’ l-Universita”. And don’t think it was just unbiased people, a lot of not so diehard nat. uni students were horrified at what happened there, believe we talked about it.
[Moderator – I think they were horrified because they were brought up to think that authority should not be challenged, and that they should be seen and not heard. I’m not surprised that the students who claimed horror were the same ones who never felt inclined to ask a single question during an entire term of lectures, and instead sat in the corner literally transcribing the lecturer’s speech. And you are making the mistake of thinking that Alfred Sant had something new or interesting to say. He didn’t, because he had been producing rubbish ideas for well over a decade, and there was no reason for him to change. He was a rubbish leader of a rubbish party with a rubbish manifesto drafted by rubbish people. How can you expect him not to be rubbished?]
“JM … has the face of a squat frog, etc.”
Daphne (if I may),
Hundreds of witty and beautifully-crafted pieces down the line, many people (myself included) think that you well deserve to be our top columnist. However, why take it to this level? I see your point when you pour scorn on Sant’s ‘hair’style or JM’s shirts or daft statements or whatever – those are bad CHOICES, and as such show ill-judgement which, possibly (though I’m not sure), translates into poor decision making on a political level. However, in what way exactly does JM’s frog face (your words) relate to his political persona? This is quite infra dig – we don’t read you for this.
Mark
Caphenni, the Youtube clips aren’t silly. The person in them is. And they play a crucial part in revealing who and what Joseph Muscat is.
@ moderator
Oh how sweet!!!!! So you think I am making intelligent arguments since you are discussing with me. 10x alot:) As for AS’s rubbish… I didn’t agree with a lot of things he said, like the golf courses and the surcharge reduction but some things were correct. For example, and I know you will not agree, the Reception class. Maybe its because i’m still young but I remember how hard it was for me to sit still for 6hrs at school everyday when I was only five years old (That’s Yr 1 for you). My little brother had to sit down for six hours when he was even younger since he was born in late November. And yet no one of those oh so young and ntelligent students present stood up and asked him whether he could consider just changing the syllabus of yr 1 slightly to include more games and activities did they, they just booed. And what about David Herrera’s oh so emotonal speech about not wanting to trust AS because he might mess with our stipends…. I’m sorry didn’t PN mess with our stipends without nobody uttering a syllable of protest. I guess Daphne’s son is only getting Lm 36 (how much is that in Euro) a month even though he’s not at SAC or JC anymore, did she say anything against PN then? Nor did they say anything when the busfares were increased, SDM (for all its ‘we’re want student’s best interest’)did not participate then. They were sheeple then right?( Oh I love you Eddie, qalb ta qalbi, I won’t question any of your desicions ever… because I’m your humble little..sheep!)
@ H.P Baxter
No I don’t think the pinnacle of achievement is a 9-5 job. Programmers have a 9-5 job and I guess they like it. Soldiers don’t have a 9-5 job and I guess they like it too. I won’t bluff my way and say that I know wht PfP is exactly, but I guess if its such a nice thing it should have been included in the election manifesto. If people agreed that its a nice thing they would still have voted PN, if not than it would have been the people who decided, that’s what democracy is all about last time I checked.
Pat’s ‘we can beat them once again!!!’ comment above, sums up the way most Maltese people view politics.
We view alegiance to a particular party in the same way we view alegiance to a particular football club or band club …. sad but true!
@Ronnie
Finally a person who understands what I’m talkng about. Politics should be about people deciding between different policies and issues not about whether your family likes blue or red.
@Mark – if Joseph Muscat did not so obviously consider himself to be a handsome young wag with disciples who find it necessary to tell us how young and handsome he is, I wouldn’t be obliged to point out that he is middle-aged, very ordinary-looking and with a terrible figure. Clearly, he has been surrounded all his life by that type of backward Maltese person who equates fair hair and blue eyes with ‘beauty’ regardless of features and physique (ghax bjont u qisu Ingliz). You will have noted that I have never commented before on any aspect of any politician’s physical appearance, because these are things over which we have little or no control, as you so correctly pointed out. But that is because there has so far been no politician who has sought to ram his presumed youth and handsome face down our throats, or to claim these factors as his winning ticket, rather than focussing on something more important – brains and astuteness.
Caphenni – You said “Look at us, we’re arguing in terribly superficial ways, attacking one another and calling each other names, talking about HATE and LOVE towards a person we know very little about, and so on.”
Have you already got bitten by Joseph’s love bug?
Daph – Maybe I should rephrase that. I certainly DIDN’T intend calling ALL post-menopausal women “frustrated”, but I was thinking of that one in particular …
Daphne:
I still think he can’t be blamed for a culture which, as you so rightly say, thinks that ‘ginger’ equals handsome (though this has changed: ‘Mediterranean’ looks, whatever that means, are highly prized these days – thank goodness as far as I’m concerned!). If anything it’s his attitude that matters, not the actual goods. With respect to the former you’re spot on (though take my word for it that he’s not half as bad as he comes across); as for the latter, I suggest we might want to sidestep the issue.
My tuppence w. (uff – what has postmodernism done to figures of speech?) was more along the lines of: For ‘ohxon’, ‘ikrah’, etc. ‘political’ commentary, it’s not Daphne I look to. A trip down the grocer’s would be a better bet. Then again, it was an unasked-for comment on my part, so it’s your pick.
M
Dear Daphne,
I’m sorry to say but your coloumns are really beginning to look and sound childish. Are you in any way competing with Madonna for the best child story book? What with all the rainbows and frogs and dwarves. Why don’t you include Dr.Gonzi in your fairy tales, he would play a wonderful part as Mr.Potato Head (what’s going on under those cheeks?)?
I appreciate you say you being an independent writer and what not, but please live up to your journalistic claims. If you are so independent I don’t think that Labour party’s problems are your only political interest? Have you nothing to say about Gonzi’s sudden disappearance? Where is he, apart from an appearance here and another there, where is our Prime Minister, what is he doing? Aren’t you a little bit wee interested how all of a sudden all communication is lost between the PM and the rest of us? Where is the new way of making politics?
You wrote so so so much about Joseph Muscat, but Gonzi has been in the recent government more than Joseph has been a leader, and still, where is that curious and investigative journalist inside you?
I hope you take due note of my comments and criticism because if you want to remain credible you have some attitude to change, big time.
[Moderator – What are ‘journalistic claims’?]
Daphne. You are right. Add to that the fact that his doting mother had him at 36 and he’s an only child.
It seems that the list of people who like JM is growing first we had single men without children aged between 30 and 40, now we have teenage girls (who will be 18 by next election) and post-menopausal woman, gay and lesbians, seperated couples who wish for a divorce. The list is really getting longer – this in less than a week – what will happen in 5 years.
@ H.B.Baxter – I’ll tell you what’s wrong with PFP when we start receiving our young men/women in a box and giving them a hero’s funeral. You say some people want to become soldiers – good for them. Others want to join PFP – good for them. But the majority of soldiers join the forces because they have been unemployed. These are not your children, nor mine, nor Gonzi’s, nor Sant’s. These are people who don’t have a say, by the way we were told that they will join PFP on a volontary bases. Volontary bases my foot – all newly enrolled soldiers can be sent whenever and wherever the NATO sees fit.
@Daphne – Does a person have to look like Brett Pitt to be handsome. By handsome I meant easy on the eye, or pleasant to look at. Of course 35 is young. Maybe he is veryclose to middle age but all other leaders are much older.
[Moderator – Stop being demagogic. Soldiers participate in the PfP voluntarily – and they will not be ‘forced’ to participate in NATO missions because the PfP is not NATO. For starters, Russia is a member of the PfP, while NATO is its traditional enemy.]
@Hmmm Hmmm – you know, I’m really tired of people like you popping in from time to time to hector me about what and how I should write. I’ve been doing this job successfully for almost two decades, and I think I can trust my own judgement about what to do and not to do, what to write and not to write. If you believe for one moment that I am going to fall into the trap of writing relentlessly ‘serious’ articles to impress people with my intellectual prowess, you really don’t know the meaning of the phrase that it takes a wise man to play the fool. There are enough people around being serious and intellectual to impress others; so go off and read them, then.
Lol @ Amanda – That does seem like I was hit by some sort of love bug. Maybe I have :D Or else I was just smoking a little too much :)
I wonder what Joseph has to say about marijuana. A Facebook group calling for its legalization has almost reached 1000 members. I’m sure it would help Joseph to ask for its legalization and get everyone smoking it. We’d all be singing the coke anthem and licking his poodle paws in no time.
And if he does, well its just another reason for me to vote for him!
Ah now we know. Thanks to Xewka we can sleep soundly in the knowledge that we are simply using the Armed Forces of Malta as an alternative ETC. I quote ‘But the majority of soldiers join the forces because they have been unemployed.’
Is Xewka saying that we now have incompetent, unemployable people bearing arms; as the fact that they cannot find jobs is very worrying when we are in a full employment situation.
Next he’ll be telling us that we should have a public discussion whether whitewashers should work on the outside of tall buildings. After all, that also is dangerous, and these poor buggers are only doing the job because they are unemployed.
Xewka, frankly, I hope the AFM are truly insulted by your comments, as, if they are not, they should be. Those guys (and gals) want to be soldiers and are very happy to be sharing experiences with their European peers. Otherwise they would have hopped it long ago. I don’t see any mass desertions or resignations going on.
As to the silly idea of holding a referendum on the subject, what can I say? Should we hold a referendum on when the Prime minister calls a cabinet meeting. The PfP is not a national issue. It is an issue between the PM and the AFM (and he’s their boss by the way). And please don’t give me any more rot about neutrality clauses.
Honestly the more I think about it the more I realise that this is a non-issue. Go away Xewka and find some really thorns to play with. Preferably with Peter Muscat
no wonder he’s colour blind