Cut your losses, Arnold, and run
AD EP candidates Arnold Cassola and Yvonne Ebejer
Despite being faced with the results of polls conducted by the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party, which for once appear to agree, Arnold Cassola told us yesterday that AD is on its way to winning a seat in the European Parliament. Then he changed it a little, to “AD has a very good fighting chance, even more so now that Malta will probably have six seats”.
He doesn’t believe the polls carried out on behalf of Labour and the Nationalists. Perhaps he needs reminding that the Nationalist polls have never been wrong, and, because Labour’s polls are showing the same results, it looks like they’ve got their act together on this one.
That was apparent to me as I took note of the issues that Muscat was systematically picking up, in what would have appeared to others as an incoherent order. He’s been taking them from the top, as listed spontaneously by poll respondents.
The Sunday Times yesterday reported the results of both the big parties’ polls, but that same day Muscat spoke at a public meeting and told people not to believe what they are being told about this election being a very easy ride for Labour. I suppose he’s telling us not to believe his polls again.
The only reason we should believe them is that they match up with the other polls, even if we couldn’t pick up the feeling on our own, just by talking to people.
Cassola may be dreaming of his sixth seat, as things stand, that seat is going to Labour. We’re going to have four Labour MEPs and two Nationalist MEPs, and Cassola had better go back to trying his luck in Italy.
No chance of that, though, because as he put it: “The reality is that scientific polls show that AD is on its way to win a seat in the European Parliament. We can do it. Yes we can. Malta needs a third voice in the European Parliament. Pluralism will show that Malta is a serious and modern country.”
Actually what we need is not pluralism but fewer whackos across the board.
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Amazing, and it is due to the P.N that we form part of the European Union.
I know for a fact that the “PL polls” quoted by The Times are ‘fazulli’. It’s part of the plot. Such things happen. There’s much more going on. When people are deperate, they do nasty things. It’s all being noted.
[Daphne – Joseph Muscat shows his polls to Sharon tat-Titanic, does he? I don’t think so. Yes, the Labour polls may well be fazulli given the party’s track record on this score, but guess what? The Nationalist polls have never been wrong as I recall and the figures quoted by The Sunday Times yesterday were correct. So the Labour Party has fazulli polls that – what do you know – just happen to be accurate. I love your ‘It’s all being noted’. So very old Labour. Get your dungeon ready and put Spettur Farrugia in charge.
Incidentally, I thought of you yesterday evening when I was watching South Park on Comedy Central. It was the famous 9/11 conspiracy theory episode, in which Stan and Kyle discover that the government is pretending to have done it so as to be seen as all-powerful. Here you go: http://uk.truveo.com/South-Park-911/id/4121866690 I couldn’t find it on digg.com]
When one appears to be speaking to a toad, the reaction one gets comes from the toads’ world. And yet, I spoke not to the toad.
[Daphne – Kemm ahna misterjuzi u oblique.]
A passing newt would know what I’m talking about. And it is neither about kazzolas, nor kahhalas. You might even enjoy the scene if it comes to that.
[Daphne – Kemm int tedjanti xi kull tant. It helps in life to say exactly what you mean.]
No Daphne, it does not always help. Not when you don’t want children to understand what you’re talking about. But it takes a Daphne to spoil it. So I’ll stop here. Otherwise I just love the irony of speaking to people through a megaphone whose owner they dislike. Especially those who deserve much worse.
kev – Why not migrate to http://www.sharon4malta.com ? Is it too tedious there?
Amanda Mallia, it’s nice to have a bit of diversity on a comment-board.
If the polls are correct, which is probably the case, then PN have a lot of homework to do.
When PN lost it 3 – 2 to the then MLP five years ago, Cassola and those who voted for him were blamed for it becase his 25K+ votes were said to have come from PN’s fold – which may be why many of those 25K+ who voted Cassola back then won’t do so again now.
If Labour gets 4 out of 6 this time, and Cassola doesn’t do as well as he did five years ago, then it would be a really bad showing for PN, especially when one considers the lousy leadership at PL.
Yes Mar, but don`t forget that many people think that as far as the PL is still occupying the opposition benches in Valletta, there`s nothing to worry about. Their reasoning is, let them have a bit of fun in Brussels and at the same time give the Nationalists something to think about. Joseph will have his victory, which undoubtedly will give him a false sense of security given his inexperience and at the same time it will remind the Nationalists that if they want to remain the occupants of Castille, they need to roll up their sleeves and listen to what the people are saying. Most importantly what the disgruntled middle class are saying, the people that are productive and work for their money and not the ones receiving social benefits for nothing.
Well said, Daphne. I was dumbfounded yesterday, especially when Dr. Cassola projected himself as Obama with his ‘yes we can’ slogan – which had it not been so sick coming from him, it would have been hilarious. Something else which was very evident yesterday during the debate was that both PN/PL were debating between themselves not caring that there was a spectator in the form of Dr. Cassola who was dying to say something but although they never seem to agree between themselves, it seems there was this agreement of ignoring AD.