Oh, look – a message from somebody planning to vote for Edward Scicluna
Joseph! Joseph! Edward! Yesssss!
This comment came through beneath the post ‘Edward Scicluna tells us to mind our own business’. When the foreman in the Labour elves comments factory gave his instructions, I’m quite sure he had something else in mind. But you can’t tie a good Laburista down.
first of all before you critisice people
go and have a good look in the mirror,wash your mouth with shit becouse you are full of shit,and YOU dont know how to talk you are just nothing but dirt all this becouse you r jelous of higher people than you and much educated than you are . One MORE THING LEAVE THE LABOUR ALONE THEY R THE ONE WITH GOOD SAYS.PEACE OF SHIT AND RED IS THE BEST COLOUR OF ALL DONT YOU KNOW THE MALTA FLAG DO YOU THING CAN BE IN BLUE AND WHITE U STUPID WOMAN SO LOOK AT IT WELL ITS RED AND WHITE YU BLIND RED IS FOREVER.AND BITE ME IF THE DONT WIN.
regards
LABOUR FOREVER.
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Love the spelling!
IQ of a zit! The more I see comments like that, the more I despair. Thinking that the fate of our country and the future of our children is in the hands of such ignorant people armed with a vote is a scary.
But heaven forbid we allow American and Australian immigrants to vote in local council elections after five years of living in the country…. (that goes for both parties, but especially the PN that has made such a fuss over such a non-issue)
Amazing the kind of people the Labour Party attracts. When I read things like this, I wonder what is wrong with the education system here in Malta. Can anyone really write such bad English when it is one of our official languages? I dread to think how this person writes Maltese. This person must have the brain of a chicken. A shiver goes down my spine when I think that it is people like this who have a say in our future.
Poor thinking skills and sitting permanently at the bottom of a well can’t produce anything else – in any language.
I can truly assure you that unfortunately rude and illiterate people are found in both Labour and Nationalist supporters.
[Daphne – There are far more of them supporting Labour. You only have to look at the polls to see that. It’s not a fiction. The vast majority of DEs support Labour, and contrary to what you might think, they are not progressive but extremely conservative, with very right-wing views on immigration and social change like gay rights and divorce. The true progressives are ABC1, and most of them vote Nationalist, however reluctantly and with the occasional spot of abstaining or sulking at AD’s door.]
You can’t grip on a comment and put everyone in the same group. I have heard scary comments from PN supporters that make you cry and believe me I wouldn’t want my kids to hear those words. So you cannot generalize.
[Daphne – Oh, you should let your kids hear them. No point in sheltering them from reality.]
I don’t shelter my kids from reality, far from it. I try to educate them and tell them what is right and what is wrong. And you have to make a distinction. Children have so much on their minds these days. I assure you they have heard words and arguments like the one you have showed…but you don’t want them talking like that.
As for the illiterate…maybe far more are Labourites…but I assure you I know plenty on the other side as well. I work daily with people so believe me when I say so.
[Daphne – I’m not talking about illiterate people necessarily. I’m talking about defiantly ignorant people and those with a chip – and you can be defiantly ignorant and chippy even when you’re reading for a PhD. Indeed, some of those people read for PhDs precisely because of their chip and a desire to prove something.]
I’m so proud to be Maltese!
These comments always remind me of my father-in-law (95 years old) who can’t understand democracy – or rather how democracy means that everyone has a vote. When you overhear people talking, it’s sometimes scary to think our future is in the hands of people like them.
@ Mandy
You have hit the nail on its head, straight on. I still believe that their mentality is not far away from that of the 1970s, and that really frightens me.
What the hell?
Wow, that comment is shocking. You can easily look into the thought process of the person behind this and how it was translated word for word with no regard to good English. Well, in a few years time our country will be run by people like this. Can’t wait!
That has to be a joke post.
[Daphne – It isn’t, I can assure you. There have been a few similar ones, but this one is the best.]
“STUPID WOMAN ” That’s straight from “Allo Allo” !http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCCbXDHqyDE&feature=related
People who are asking for the PL electoral program should ask this gentleman , he’s got a one-size fits-all vague common manifesto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP5hhH8g92s
Disgusting
Be careful, or you’ll sound like “Mary” or like “Labour forever”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Oq6r_PHr0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQbhZzwN6wQ
IQ of a zit! To think that the fate of our country and the future of our children is in the hands of such ignorant people like these is very scary. I rest my case.
[Daphne – At least they’re capable of making the right decision, however they arrive at it, unlike the people with PhDs who thought that Malta would be best off outside the European Union. So I suppose that education is no solution, really, is it? Muscat’s PhD hasn’t made him brighter or more capable of taking the right decisions.]
These people are relatively harmless. As Daphne put it, real harm comes from the PhDs who wanted us out of Europe.The sad thing is that sooner or later they will be in power.
Joe Chetcuti: What is your case?
Joe Chetcuti – If the “Ivvota Labour – Inz*bbab” t-shirt shocked you, then you only prove all the more how people like yourself have got no sense of humour.
[Daphne – If that’s Joe Chetcuti of Australia, then it would have caused him offence because inz*bb*b is the way he prefers to have sex, and that is not a homophobic comment, just an observation. He’s one of those insufferably militant and bitter gay rights campaigners – like all gay men are crucified in the streets or something.]
Yes I forgot all about KMB. KMB did not harm public schools, neither did he harm private schools come to that, although he caused a lot of bother.
Agatha Barbara harmed public schools; up to her time government secondary schools were among the best schools. Then she tried to turn them into comprehensive schools, so o.k MUT did not help, but when something goes wrong it’s always the minister’s fault.
Both Louis Galea and Dolores Christina should know that you just don’t flick a finger and change a system. Junior Lyceums (especially girl’s schools) were getting good results
instead of improving what they had, they shoved all the students into one school. So OK MUT is not cooperating but still it’s the minister’s fault. They should have consulted with the union before the reforms.
The problem is that this reform is supposed to take place in Church schools as well. So the poor parents don’t know what to do. I bet the number of students in private schools will escalate in the coming years. Well that’s one way of saving on Education, reduce the number of students in Government and Church schools, and let the parents pay if they can afford it.
Sorry the comment above was meant for Antoine Vella, in the posting below this.
“you r jelous of higher people than you and much educated than you”
This is quite amusing when one considers it came from a supporter of a party that did its level best to shut down the only decent schools, church or private, at the time.
But then again, without mass ignorance the MLP would soon disintegrate.
Let me assure you that your beloved party has just shut down the decent government schools – Junior Lyceums and turned them into the same type of schools we had in the 80s. It seems that government education drops down to shit when we get a female minister.
Grace, the unsavoury (for you) truth is that the title of worst ever minister for education goes to KMB, with Agatha Barbara a close runner-up.
Did you know that “l-Ewropa ma hallitilnix in-nanna fit-testment”?
We fought hard to join. So you can bet your last euro cent that we knew this one, Marlene Mizzi.
I love the way this half-wit echoes Joey’s instructions to the PM – some time back he advised him to ‘wake up early, wash (his) face and have a long look in the mirror’, much to the delight of his audience … you have to admit that the man has class!
I wonder how many of you latched on to the underlying significance of this thread?
That fact that Daphne tried to connect the post to Scicluna – although the name does not appear in it – is a clear indicatioin that his candidature on the LP ticket is worrying her big-time.
[Daphne – I didn’t ‘try’ to connect it. This woman – for it is a ‘she’ – commented in reaction to a post about Edward Scicluna, telling me that he is more educated than I am. No candidate worries me ‘big-time’ or otherwise. This is not a general election, though your people are treating it as such. Unlike you, I don’t see politics as a football game, winning and losing for the sake of winning and losing. It’s the consequences which concern me.]
Ettore, they are connected. He’s a PL candidate and she’s a PL voter. He’s not responsible for her crudeness, of course, but she does express sentiments that she must have picked up from PL sources.
You really are amusing. Do you think those kind of people (assuming that message was really posted as reproduced, which is a very large assumption) are to be found only on one side?
If so, you need to grow up – and fast.
[Daphne – Actually, that kind of person is typically Labour: il-Partit tal-Lanzit.]
Ettore, what you’re implying is that Daphne edited and manipulated the post, much as Joseph Muscat twisted and manipulated Perici Calascione’s speech to the hunters.
Qed tkejjel lil kullħadd b’xiber il-PL.
You are provably and “documentedly” (to invent a word) wrong there.
The Perici Calascione speech was not edited in any what whatsoever.
[Daphne – Gosh, we’re legalistic this morning. It wasn’t edited in the sense that bits were chopped and stuck to other bits. Instead, bits were lifted out of context. I’ll give you an example. I am recorded saying ‘Ettore Debono is a complete bastard but I love him dearly.’ Then somebody comes along and plays to you just this bit: ‘Ettore Debono is an utter bastard.’]
Like you, Ettore, or whatever your name is, this person has the collective IQ of two cockroaches. Why don’t you tell us how your exalted Profs bumbled through his one minute of fame on Xarabank? He was sweating like a pig and mumbling away off a piece paper. And what did he mumble? The governmnet should intervene to create jobs. Is this all he has to offer? And how, pray, does he advise the government to do? Create a Korp tal-Pijunieri, a Dirghajn il-Maltin, Bahhar u Sewwi or some other such nonsense? Why does he have such a poor sense of belief in his fellow Maltese?
If this is the best the PL can offer, then they are truly the party of despair.
Scicluna is a doer not a talker – unlike Vince Farrugia who’s only distinguishing feature is his big mouth. And while Scicluna is almost guaranteed a seat in Brussels, Farrugia is unlikely to be allowed within a mile of the place.
Tough, isn’t it?
If you take away the “shit”, it could have easily come from timesofmalta.com. That’s what’s scary.
What else do you expect from PL supporters?
Watching Xarabank last night, I was shocked by the entire Labourite group’s antics (including the candidates). They were ill-mannered and rude and kept interrupting PN candidates. They even booed Simon Busuttil when he mentioned the benefits on introducing the euro. Then they want us to believe that they are embracing membership.
Is that how it struck you? I felt that they did not interrupt nearly enough and some of the PN candidates were allowed to get away with barefaced lies.
That is the downside of putting forward technocrats on the basis of merit. The PL should have copied the PN and put forward cynical politicians like Busuttil instead.
Ettore, when you say that the PL put forward “technocrats on the basis of merit” are you referring to the likes of Bedingfield, Cuschieri, Baldacchino, Mizzi and the others? The only technocrat in the whole lot is Edward Scicluna.
Antoine, even if Scicluna were the only technocrat in the PL candidate list, it is still one more than the PN.
But I consider Louis Grech and Marlene Mizzi as technocrats too.
[Daphne – Louis Grech ran Air Malta. Marlene Mizzi ran a shop selling baby clothes. Allura ta’ Mary’s House f’Tas-Sliema technocrat ukoll?]
Antoine, pray what have you got against Baldacchino. She was the person who worked hard to stop the government from turning a quarry a few meters from Mnajdra into a rubbish dump. Pray tell me which of your candidates can boast of fighting for our heritage and environment? Alan Deidun? He brags of being an environmentalist, but all he could do in Xarabank was to act infantile and wave the EU flag like a matador waves the red cloth, to create some form of reaction from the PL supporters. I expected him to say something about JPO’s party or the new Power station. Thanks to him AD have up to my knowledge won another 5 votes, from University students who were going to vote for him but found him wanting.
Grace, I just said Baldacchino is not a technocrat. However, since you ask about her, let me remind you that she used to be a Super One propagandist, presenting the usual half-truths or full lies, brainwashing her target audience and generally taking advantage of their gullibility.
Since she was forever moaning and bitching against the government, her efforts against the landfill near Mnajdra (I’m taking your word she ever spoke about it) were obviously ineffective, being simply part of her routine act. The landfill was finally placed elsewhere for totally other reasons and it is a sign of your poor judgement that you believe she had a hand in the decision.
As for Deidun, he doesn’t need me to endorse him as an environmentalist, given his long years of activity in this sector. Let me just say that your comparison of the EU flag to a red cloth is very apt. It provoked hysterical anti-EU reactions that were as uncontrollable as they were visceral. With a simple gesture of waving the flag, Deidun managed to show everybody how the PL candidates and supporters really feel about the EU.
Thanks for your reply,it just goes to show that uou hate her because she worked at Super One. When following Super One or Net TV, I always take what they say with a pinch of salt, you seem to be quite an intelligent person I’m sure you do the same. These two stations only say what their listeners want to hear. What really worries me is when a program on PBS is biased, because people tend to think that it is not. Now Lou Bondi is one presenter who fills his program with half truths and says only what PN supporters want to hear.
The land fill near Mnajdra was placed elsewhere because the Qrendi local council ( Claudette is the Deputy Mayor) commissioned a technical report and presented it to UNESCO and the Council of Europe. So you see it had nothing to do with her job on Super One. I suggest you check your facts before you write.
As for Deidun, he might have worked for long years as an environmentalist, that is why certain youths I know were going to vote for him, but just like JPO he ignored everything when he decided to join the PN wagon. Glad to say these university students I know will be voting AD. Hopefully we will have one AD MEP this time round.
By the way I did not see any PL candidate react to Deidun’s infantile gesture, only some silly, hotheaded supporters reacted reacted.
Grace,
“When following Super One or Net TV, I always take what they say with a pinch of salt.”
In the case of Baldacchino you need an entire salt mine. You should stop jumping to conclusions about people. You accused me of having something against her because I said she is not a technocrat and now you say I hate her. I don’t hate her, it’s just that I have no respect for her as a journalist and politician.
Incidentally, I watched her on Bondiplus and think she is also a very poor debater, going off topic all the time, repeating herself and not answering Bondi’s questions. I can’t believe that people actually voted for her in her village.
I stand to be corrected I meant to say you are prejudiced against her. Maybe hate is too strong a word. Although sometimes very strong words are used on this blog. Claudette might not be a technocrat, but she usually asks for technical opinions before she takes her decisions. People in her village voted for her because they like her and she works hard for them, I know people from outside her village who encouraged me to vote for her.
I also watched Bondiplus, what Claudette did (like many other politicians are doing) was to state what they came to say and ignore what Lou Bondi asked. That might not be what we wanted to hear, but if you watch political debates nowadays that is exactly what everybody is doing, we actually consider political debates hilarious.
I have not decided where my first preference will go, it will not go to any PN candidate, the only one worth a vote is Simon Busutil, but I’m afraid he’s too much of a yes man where EU is concerned. So that leaves Arnold Cassola or maybe I will vote for Sharon Ellul Bonnici she surely is no yes man/woman where EU is concerned.
Daphne,
I don’t understand why such citizens are so aggressive towards your articles and posts. Sometimes I am tempted to say that they still believe they live in the 1970s and 1980s when there was no freedom of expression. I don’t remember those times because I was born in the early 1980s, but from what I read the 1980s -especially- is a decade to forget.
These citizens don’t understand that thanks to the Nationalist Party nowadays all citizens have the right to express themselves. “wash your mouth with shit because you are full of shit” and “One MORE THING LEAVE THE LABOUR ALONE THEY R THE ONE WITH GOOD SAYS.”: I would ask my self does they know what these words mean? Their beliefs and arguments can be published in all means and mediums. But the PN in opposition had to send a man to Sicily for years to broadcast from there. And The Times building was burned down.
Below you can find an extract article 41 of the Maltese Constitution – we respect freedom of expression more than we respect the flag.
(http://docs.justice.gov.mt/lom/legislation/maltese/leg/vol_1/kap0.pdf)
“…Hadd ma ghandu jigi mfixkel fit-tgawdija tal-libertà tieghu
ta’ espressjoni, maghduda libertà li jkollu fehmiet minghajr indhil, libertà li jircievi idejiet u taghrif minghajr indhil, libertà li
jikkomunika idejiet u taghrif minghajr indhil (kemm jekk il-komunikazzjoni tkun lill-pubbliku in generali jew lil xi persuna jew klassi ta’ persuni) u libertà minn indhil dwar il-korrispondenza tieghu….”
… and those whose political opinion differred from that of MLP were harassed, had their houses searched for some made-up reason (or, as in Fenech Adami’s case, had their home ransacked). People who dared express their opinion openly by attending protests (be it for lack of water in our pipes or against the closure of our schools) were often beaten up, arrested, or both. Yes, the 1970s and 1980s were terrible. Luckily, all that ended in May 1987.
As for you, Joe Chetcuti – Nivvota Labour? ,,, Inz*bbab! I will vote them out for as long as I live.
My dear observer you should read both sides of the story. I was bullied at work because I was a member of the GWU, I was insulted when a man entered Castille to attack Mintoff, and more over the next day when a mob attacked the Times and EFA’s house. What probably you don’t know is that the same policemen who beat people in those days got a promotion when PN came to power. What you have not been told was that a young teenage girl was murdered because her father came to work in St Luke’s hospital during the MD strike. Yes those were dark days – but violence came from both sides. What nobody really mentions is that violence started when EFA became leader of the opposition and stopped when he was elected Prime Minister.
Habib,jissemma hafna snin 70 u 80 bhala zmien terribli jew zmien fejn id-demokrazija falliet.Dan ghax forsi ghal hafna il-memorji ghadom friski.Qatt ma jien ha naqbel ma min jipprova jfixkel il-liberta tal-kelma jew ta l-istampa ,wisq aktar ta min jipprova jinqeda bil-poter biex jaghmel vjolenza fuq haddiehor.Jekk xejn billi jiena laburist fi twemmini,u int nazzjonalist…ahna t-tnejn maltin.U nassigurak li il-politika u il-passat taghha f’pajjizna qatt ma xekkluni milli nibni hbiberija ma nies li jahsbuwa mod iehor minni.
Sfortunatament hadd jew ftit isemmu is-snin 50 u 60,zmien taht il-hakma ingliza,meta il-PL bata hafna meta prova jaqbez ghal haddiem.Bata ghax iggiled ghal drittijiet tieghu,baqa sakemm nizel mil-gvern 1958 ghax ma felahx jara gvern ingliz jaghtina c-cicri waqt li haddiema tieghu f’pajjizna kienu mhallsin it-tripplu.Donnu kullhadd nesa zmien ta dnub il-mejjet,koppji mzewgin go sagristiji,laburisti midfunin go mizbla(hekk kienu jsejhula).Kien zmien ikrah ukoll…meta meetin tal-labour kien ikun sfratta bi ftehim mal-knisja .Hi haga sabiha li llum dan huwa passat,izda li gara.
PL fit-80 u 70 m’ghamilx hsara biss kif jinghad sikwiet.Mintoff gab servizzi socjali,children’s allowance,penzjoni,edukazzjoni b’xejn,sptar b’xejn,vot lin-nisa,housing u hafna affarijiet li ghadna ngawdu minnom illum.Niftakru li mintoff wara l-gwerra sab qerda totali,nies bla djar,bla xoghol,guh u mard.U bena Malta mil-gdid.Imma donnu dan kullhadd insih.Jekk ha nsemmu…insemmu tajjeb u hazin.
Albert Ellis, your last paragraph listing all the “gifts” Mintoff gave us reminds me of those Italians who recall fondly all the “progress” Mussolini brought to Italy. It is true that there was some material advancement in Italy in the 1920-1940 period but the overall historical assessment of the fascist regime is overwhelmingly negative because of, among other things, the lack of freedom, widespread corruption and the violence which government used against its opponents. The Mintoffjani may not have gone to the same extremes as fascists (sometimes they did) but institutionalised corruption, routine violence and lack of freedom were the characteristics of the Mintoff regime. No children’s allowance and minimum wage can justify them.
(I replied in English because this is an English-language blog and, while the occasional Maltese word or phrase might be acceptable, I personally find it rude and selfish to post an entire comment in Maltese).
It’s neither rude nor selfish that i write in maltese.Maybe the blog is in english i did not think about that before writing.Excuse me sir.I was writing in my language….if that for you is selfish than i don’t know,maybe i go find another blog.I thought i did see whole comments in maltese.Maltese language is nothing to be ashamed of…at least for me.
You say no minimum wage or pension or children’s allowance can justify the lack of freedom that existed those days.That is not justifying …..but those are things that happened and changed the lives of the middle class.You can’t deny that for sure.And you can’t measure Mintoff with Mussolini for god’s sake…there lies no comparison.Mintoff was a politician that feared no english and no one to get what he thought was best for the people.I agree there were things like corruption that hampered his era….but mussolini was a fascist….dictator.
Do you recall the social security and the changes he made as some advancement?
Using Maltese isn’t shameful. Using Maltese when readers don’t understand it, is. It’s the equivalent of lowering your voice or switching languages to exclude someone who is seated at the same table.
Albert, sometimes it is appropriate to use a language rather than another, depending on circumstances. Just because you are Maltese doesn’t mean you have to speak/write only in your language. It does not show patriotism as you seem to think but a disregard for others.
As for Mintoff, nobody denies the introduction of minimum wage and children’s allowance but they were insignificant trifles in comparison with the tribal hatred and violence on which Mintoff thrived. Putting the minimal and sporadic social advances on the same footing as the systematic trampling of human rights is historically wrong and ethically malicious.
Hilarious,………..kieku mhux daqshekk tal-biki. L-ispizjar milli jkollu jaghtik, so what can you expect.
Two comments.
How incongruous that “regards” is after all those insults. My guess is that she doesn’t know what it means.
“BITE ME IF THE DONT WIN.” This is fascinating. I have concluded that she wants to be bitten (takes all sorts I suppose) but it’s unclear under which circumstances. Who is supposed to win for her to get bitten?
Ara fis-sixties jahasra konna nesportawha d-demokrazija, biex ma nsemmux t-tolleranza u kieku kien hemm incident wiehed li hu wiehed ta’ police brutality.
Tell me that you made it up.
[Daphne – I didn’t.]
Did anyone hear Marlene Mizzi’s one minute speech yesterday on Xarabank? She started off with “L-Unjoni Ewropeja hi ta’ kulhadd. L-Unjoni Ewropeja mhix tan-Nazzjonalisti biss. Ma hallietilhomx in-nanna”.
TARBIJA LAJBOR KONT U B”MOHH TA TARBIJA HA NIBQA!
LAJBOR DOUCHE POINTS
More EP candidate clowns:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,627706,00.html
hello Andrea
I tell you one thing: they beat our Glen boy hands down.
Wasn’t Carmen Kass an EP candidate once? Whatever happened to her? Now there’s perfection, if I ever saw it. President of the Estonia Chess Federation. Like some pre-Raphaelite version of “The Seventh Seal” what. Naah, delete this comment. It makes no sense. God damn it. And to think that I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol for a week.
The womanizers in Brussels will surely love Gabriele Pauli.
Dear Daphne,
I was quite hoping to read your post mortem of yesterday’s Xarabank. It was chock full of funny episodes. I think that Claudette Baldacchino’s silver jacket takes the prize though. I do not have anything against her but I could not help laughing when I saw the way she was dressed and the manner in which she gesticulated while making her speech.
[Daphne – I didn’t watch it. I was working.]
Claudette Baldacchino is a constructed and artificial figure as Muscat himself. She has the same Super One background and mindset as well, and is another protégée of Sant. She assumes that if Muscat with his limited IQ, no work experience, studied postures and general background has made it to the EU and to the party leadership, she can make it as well. It’s the whole Super One clan.
By the way, when Lou Bondi on Bondiplus (May 25th) kept reminding Muscat to speak to him rather than the cameras, as if he was conducting “indirizz lin-nazzjon”
I wonder who instructed Lou Bond on what to do and say during Monday’s program. He sure gave Gonzi a helping hand. And what about Peppi Azzopardi, when Simon Busutil wanted to speak he always told him – ” Yes you are a minute under” Funny I timed them to day – my results are different to his. Simon Busutil got more than five minutes over Louis Grech. Maybe he uses a faster stop watch for PL. The 80s are coming back – maybe I will start my personal boycott.
Yes Sarah I quite agree with you about Claudette’s Jacket – but I still think she gave a good speech, and she is a fighter. She worked hard in the Qrendi Local Council – which is a hard working Council and against the Mnajdra Landfill. More than can be said about other EP candidates.
Grace,
“I wonder who instructed Lou Bond on what to do and say during Monday’s program”
What makes you think that Lou Bondi needs anyone to instruct him or that he would accept to be instructed? You must be thinking of Claudette Baldacchino.
Antoine, let me assure you that Claudette Baldacchino means nothing to me, I only appreciate the good work she sometimes does, I also know her personally but I am NOT a member of her fan club.
If you believe that Lou Bondi is impartial, either your IQ is not as high as I thought it was or you see the world through PN tinted glasses. It’s such a pity to meet intelligent well educated persons who cannot think with their heads when it comes to politics.
Grace, you had not accused Bondi of being biased but of taking instructions from somebody. Read what you have written.
Antoine he is very biased and to me it is very clear that the debate between Dr Gonzi and Dr Muscat was well planned between PN strategists and Lou Bondi. When Dr Gonzi was lost for words Lou Bondi quickly came to his defense with a counter attack on Dr Muscat. Up to my knowledge a chairperson in a debate does not comment, he just chairs the debate, and makes sure both parties are treated equally. All his comments were intended to show the PL in a bad light, PN should be careful because such tactics can backfire, like they did in the 80s when MLP used same tactics on Xandir (dardir) Malta.
Grace, first of all Bondiplus is a talkshow not a ‘political debate’ and Lou Bondi is a journalist not the chairman in a BA debate. How can you make comments and accuse people when you do not understand these basic differences?
Secondly, I never noticed Gonzi to be at a loss for words so he had no need for anyone to come to his aid. The truth is that Muscat is unused to dealing with journalists and looked unprepared and discomposed when faced with an unexpected issue. He is still, at heart, the party hack trying to obtain a sound-byte that can be used for propaganda purposes and is uncomfortable with being the one who has to answer the questions. Perhaps he will improve in time but, at the moment, it is pure wishful thinking to say that he is a good debater.
Daphne, if you missed last Friday’s Xarabank, be at peace with yourself, you did not miss anything which could be regarded as innovative.
Geezuz, what a price we all had to pay for democracy. These people have the brains of monkeys……..but sadly they too have a vote.
Let’s face it, in 1987 who would have believed that after 16 years of terror and undemocratic rule the Nationalist Party actually ”scraped” through, In any other country the Labour Party would have had to pack their bags and disappear for at least half a century. But not here guys, cause the monkeys have a vote!
You are completely right. But you forgot Raymond Caruana. Just because of him, the Labour Party should have disappeared completely from the scene.
So what should the PN have done after Karin Grech was murdered?
Maryanne – What about Karin Grech? Didn’t EFA say he knew who murdered these people? Or where these murders granted a presidential pardon before anyone heard anything about them? Like Zeppi L-Haffi.
As for the stupidity of the Maltese voters. Who would have thought they would vote PN into power again last year. Yes both parties have rude illiterate people. And as Daphne says it’s not those that are doing all the damage. It’s the intelligent ones who are using these people.
Agreed Maryanne. No justice in this world. But then I do believe that what goes around comes around……..eventually !
Ettore, after the murder of Karin Grech, the PN should have continued to do what it in fact did: struggle to make Malta the civilised country it had been before Mintoff and his thugs hijacked it.
The police tried very hard to pin Grech’s murder on Nationalists but they eventually realised that there was no such link. Thankfully it did not occur to them to fabricate the evidence and frame anyone. That came later.
Maryanne why keep mentioning Raymond Caruana? Do you think that Labour and their followers approved that killing? No way. And Karen Grech…to this day we await justice…may they both rest in peace.
May I add, that during that period the electricity supply to the Valletta PN Club was suspended for the same reason – to stop the PN electronic broadcaster.
You find people with that type of stupidity everywhere in Malta. I mean, the sheer low quality of that comment makes you want to smack the guy who wrote it in the face.
[Daphne – It’s most likely to have been a woman.]
Don’t forget to bite him if “you” don’t win. Just what is anyone going to win if a majority of Labour or Nationalist candidates are elected? It’s not a general election…
[Daphne – My point exactly….]
Don’t you just love how he threw in the “bite me”, a sort of American slang expression – the guy can’t even spell “because”, and he’s throwing in slang. What a tosser.
God, this country sucks.
These people – most of the PL supporters – really believe that they never had it so good as in the 70s and 80s era. If you don’t know or have forgotten, the result of the election was first broadcast on RAI stations. When I heard the news that the PN had won the election by getting 51% of the votes, I thought that it was a mistake. A 51% majority after what we had been through? I remember a PN supporter running down the street and saying “Xi pjacir!” . The MLP supporters on the other hand were walking behind cars as they were afraid they might be attacked by PN supporters and exclaiming “X’garalna”. I suppose they were expecting some form of retaliation – kulhadd ikejjel b’xibru, nhux hekk!
Some were beaten up! Remember that guy who worked at the water works department?
The people who did it were arrested and charged, which is totally different from what used to happen in the happy Mintoff days.
Who wrote that note really and truly knows how to write very good English but wrote like that so that everybody will think otherwise.
I would tend to think that washing your mouth with shit, if you are already full of shit, wouldn’t be much of a hardship. Hardship is tasting shit after champagne. Maybe Joe shouldn’t have popped those corks so happily a year ago…
From what this person is saying one can easily conclude that he could be a PL MEP candidate .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKPN96KLfDM
WHat a load of dry rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!! I PITY YOU ALL!!!!!
“It’s not that we know we aren’t writing well—and so tack on some exclamations!!!—it’s that we know what we’re saying doesn’t deserve to be written at all.
Hence the salvation that exclamation offers. Like 24-hour cable newscasters, we compensate for the unworthiness of our meanings by being emphatic! (A good rule of thumb: The more insignificant the message, the more exclamations it will require.)”
http://www.slate.com/id/2173076/pagenum/all/#p2
“Avoid excessive punctuation!!!”
http://www.betterwritingskills.com/tip-w007.html
“Increasing the number of exclamation or question marks at the end of a sentence might appear to increase the overall emphasis, but in reality it just makes your text ugly and informal.”
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/punctuation-errors-multiple-punctuation-marks/