Let's hear it from Mister Wishy-Washy
It’s always nice to listen to a politician who’s got the courage of his convictions, isn’t it? Too bad Joseph Muscat has no such treats in store for us as can be seen from this report of his meeting with the foetus-fetishists Paul Vincenti and Tony Mifsud . If he sits on the fence any longer, he’s going to get a nasty attack of piles and spend the next five months mired in haemorrhoid cream. And I’m fascinated to see that now Peter Serracino Inglott and Kenneth Wain are his gurus too. I’m beginning to suspect that he’s had a missed vocation in the Nationalist Party, and that accounts for all his personality problems. My last sight of Professor Wain was on television in the last general election campaign, in a re-run of a debate in which he was roundly insulted and abused by Evarist ‘Maria l-Maws’ Bartolo.
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I really cannot comprehend why Joey, with such a lajfstajl, had to mention Serracino Inglott and Wain in this.
Really, it sounds a little unfathomable to me. Why did he find it crucial to resort to others’ perspectives? Doesn’t he have a perspective of his own?
Could you compare the “wishy-washy” posture of Joseph Muscat with the forthrightness and decisiveness of the Government spokesmen on this issue?
(Daphne – Hi, John. I’ve been writing about that side of things since day one of this crazy campaign. This was the first opportunity we’ve had to see what the new Labour leader thinks about it. The only senior politician who has been “forthright and decisive” about it is former Justice Minister, now Foreign Minister, Tonio Borg, who all but led the campaign in the beginning. Unfortunately, his forthrightness and decisiveness were on the wrong side of things as far as I’m concerned. Most MPs would be aware of the implications of what these two men are trying to do, but one of the men is a US-style ‘browbeat-the-customer’ salesman who runs a marketing consultancy, and who has – very successfully at first – portrayed his mission as the saving of babies from their crazy mothers. Having been browbeaten by him – he moved smoothly from sucking up to persuasion to threats – I know just how difficult he would have been to beat off. MPs would have felt pressured into signing the petition because they would have thought that public opinion was behind Gift of Life, and they wouldn’t have wanted to be seen as pro-abortion. Interestingly, you might have noticed that the ‘summer break’ Gift of Life unwisely took has left the field wide open for the growth of resentment towards them. If you take a look at the comments posted below the Gift of Life stories on http://www.timesofmalta.com (there was one last Monday and another one today, I believe) you’ll see a preponderance of opinion against Gift of Life’s aims.)
When Joe Muscat needs to show some teeth be sure that he will bring Jason along to smile…. :)