Comments on: It looks like our Joey is going to sacrifice himself

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:21:30 +0000

Gerald: I’m taking a break from travelling, so here’s my answer: My comment says exactly what it means. It sounds like you’re one of those ‘true believers’ who think that the perfect government can be created out of the mass action of voters staying home on election day because there’s no one they really want to vote for.

You might want to take note of the fact that I’m not glued to my desk for the next few days.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:05:02 +0000

Gerald: you forget the fact that just under half the population are as dim-witted as you are and would have voted for a monkey had it been waving an MLP flag and sporting and ill-fitting wig.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:37:21 +0000

oh come on Daphne – i thought Corinne would very well answer me back. If it was so competent (the PN) it would have won the last election by 30,000 votes…..

(Daphne – Corinne is travelling.)

By: Gerald

Gerald — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:08:37 +0000

Corinne, are you suggesting that the PN is competent? My God!

(Daphne – As an intelligent and sentient being, Corinne couldn’t help but notice that the Nationalist Party is competent. If it were not competent, we would still be wearing Red Devil jackets, Spider Jeans and Sanga shoes while drinking Tower Tea behind the Iron Curtain.)

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:11:28 +0000

Gerald: Because even a “damn hopeless and incompetent” party can be elected to government. It’s not like we’ve never been there before.

By: Marku

Marku — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:27:18 +0000

Gerald, because some of us are morbidly fascinated by gross incompetence.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:01:14 +0000

I wonder why this incessant crusade against Joseph and the Labour party continues. If they’re so damn hopeless and incompetent then why bother?

By: david s

david s — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:54:59 +0000

@ Chris II In a bye election the candidate must achieve 50% of the quota to be elected, so no PN or AD candidate has a chance. I believe that in KMB’s co option there was a seat vacated by an MP, but another Labour MP did submit his nomination, and subsequently another seat was vacated and KMB was co opted

By: Chris II

Chris II — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:46:12 +0000

Fausto – I stand to be corrected, but I think that if that had to happen, any PN or AD or any other non-MLP candidate on the same district can apply for the bye election – and one of them has to be elected – even if he/she gets a single vote.

By: Fausto Majistral

Fausto Majistral — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:20:34 +0000

Actually, there is a way for Muscat to take up the seat of a Labour MP elected on March 8. First, the Labour MP resigns. The Electoral Commission then publishes a writ for a casual election, for which none of the candidates re-submits an application. This would make the seat available for cooption.

That would take him more time that the planned end of this month. Maybe, he’ll be in time to insist that a Labour MP be made President when Fenech-Adami vacates Sant Anton in April …

(Daphne – The thing is that he’s committed himself to resigning his seat in the European Parliament by 25 September. We’ve taken it for granted that he will start the process of taking up a seat in the Maltese parliament immediately after that, but of course, as you suggest, we shouldn’t take any such thing for granted at all. He’s said only that he is going to resign as MEP, not that he’s going to become Leader of the Opposition. Joseph Muscat, like his immediate predecessor, is a master of the ‘half-statement’: “I’ll remove VAT” being that predecessor’s most infamous example.)