Some mothers do have them
I voted No and then for Sant so that you could have more jobs.
Here’s Edward Scicluna, advertising his wares in The Times today. He and Mrs Mizzi are clearly ripping each other’s eyes out for those ABC1 votes (the votes of the people whose express wishes they fought against in 2003).
“Edward Scicluna – because your aspiration for more and better jobs should be better represented in the European Parliament. Your vote counts.”
Incredible: this is a man who voted for Sant in 2003 and voted No in the referendum. And here he is now, telling us that he wants to fight for our aspirations for more and better jobs. What brass neck.
Even the phrase ‘more and better jobs’ is stolen straight out of the Nationalist Party’s general election campaign of last year.
Kif ma jisthux.
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SKOND IZ-ZOKK IL – FERGHA.
SKONT iz-zokk il-fergha, Noel ghax dan l-ahhar hekk qed jinkiteb!
ma tistghux sibtu slogan ahjar ghal labour
kiku mank gigtu kwart ta dakk li gabu daqs dak gid lill poplu malti ta labour
kiku xihi l-izvezja hdejna
gvern tal hala
One should not give a hoot how Professor Edward Scicluna or Mrs Marlene Mizzi voted during their past. Like every citizen they had the right to express their voting powers in complete secrecy and that should be respected.
[Daphne – I see you’re on message with the Labour Party, and with the brainless bull Marlene Mizzi has been spouting. No, when you are putting yourself forward for election, you don’t have the right to a secret vote. You have the duty to tell people how you voted – and not lie about it. It is supreme, outrageous arrogance o demand that people vote for you while you demand the right to keep such important information hidden from them. People have to be told what and who they’re voting for. It is crucial for electors to know that Mrs Mizzi is the kind of person who voted Yes in the referendum and then for Sant, thinking that she could personally change his mind.]
Professor Scicluna in particular has been an outspoken economist for the past twenty years and has given advice to all governments PN and Labour.
[Daphne – PN? I doubt it. And no, he’s not outspoken. On the contrary, he is circumspect when speaking in public. His last foray into the public domain before this was when he wrote that absolute rubbish about EU funds in an article for The Times which appeared under the name of the shadow minister for finance, Charles Mangion.]
He is a candidate that everybody should be proud of and should vote for. To discredit Professor Scicluna in such a manner is insulting to say the least. On second thoughts negative advertising may bring more votes his way…….c’est la vie….
[Daphne – I’m beginning to understand why people with dikris feel they have a better chance of being elected if they stand on the Labour ticket. People who vote Labour are so damn easily impressed – by all the wrong things.]
I totally disagree with your first comment. A person’s vote, even if in politics is personal and should remain so.
[Daphne – Your vote is personal if you are a private citizen. If you are not a private citizen, then your vote should be public. Politicians are not asked to publicise their vote because it is taken for granted that they vote for the party on whose ticket they stand. So there is no issue there. But it should be immediately obvious to you that if Tonio Borg stands on the PN ticket but votes Labour, then that is a matter of public interest – not that we can ever find out, because he can lie about it. And if Alfred Sant votes PN, that is a matter of public interest, too. Similarly, it is important for the public to know that Marlene Mizzi voted Yes and then voted for Sant straight afterwards. If you think it is not important, then it is because you hold the public in contempt, and think that electors should vote blindly and based on trust.]
The EU accession is a part of our history and it was possible thanks to the Nationalist Party but how we develop Malta within the EU depends on the choices we make today and tomorrow. From the list of candidates Professor Scicluna, Mrs Marlene Mizzi and Dr. Simon Busuttil should easily make it to Europolis. They have vision and knowledge to push Malta’s policies forward.
[Daphne – Your statement that Marlene Mizzi has vision illustrates my point that you cannot assess a person without knowing their political history, A woman who votes Yes and then for Sant, and then six years later tries to tell us that he would have changed his mind, does not have vision, but precisely the opposite. She does not even have the ability to correctly read a man’s psychology.]
“People who vote Labour are so damn easily impressed – by all the wrong things”
It’s all to do with mentality: Whereas one person might say that they graduated, another might say “ILHAQT avukat” (jew tabib jew nutar, jew x’inhu), the operative word being “ilhaqt”, meaning that they probably felt that they were nobodies beforehand, and have since gone up in the world.
The Nationalist Party has not invented the term ‘more and better jobs’. It is simply a catch phrase.
[Daphne – No, it isn’t. I happen to know that for a fact. The usual construction is ‘more jobs and better ones’. That construction was used for a particular purpose.]
I guess that all politicians aspire to create more and better jobs.
[Daphne – No, they don’t. Some politicians aspire to nothing beyond ‘niehdu l-poter’. How is Muscat going to create more jobs and better ones, exactly?]
Some have an innate ability to do so, while others no matter how hard they try, will never succeed or just do the opposite. Sant is an example. Tried and tested.
[Daphne – Ditto his disciple, who needs hindsight to work out that EU membership is better than no EU membership, and that being part of the eurozone is better than not being part of it. Now he’s going to take his decisions based on public opinion. That’s right – ask Cetta and Cali down the road whether we should have a wind-farm, qishom jifmu. It’s bad enough the rest of us had to depend on their decision as to whether we should join the European Union, and then had to live in suspense last year while they almost elected that nut-job as prime minister.]
Yes, you are right. ‘Niehdu is-siggu tal-poter’ – unfortunately is a trait found in many ‘politicians’.
Mhux ahjar ninsew il-passat……inti ma ghidtx li tal-labour jghixu fil-passat (GENSNA etc.etc) nahseb li int qed tghix fil-passat, ghaddew siit snin mitt-2003, iz-zmienijiet inbiddlu u ahna ninbiddlu maghhom.
[Daphne – L-opinjoni tieghek verament tal-biki. Zbal fahxi bhal dak ta’ Muscat u shabu sitt snin biss ilu muhiex zbal fahxi biss, imma indikazzjoni ta’ kemm ma jifmhux sahta. Jekk trid tafda d-decizjonijiet f’idejn dawk li lanqas biss kienu jafu jiddeciedu sew fuq bicca xoghol kbira bhal dik, aghmel li trid. Nghid ghalija, meta nara n-nies jaghmlu barbuljati daqstant kbar, nghid ‘Dawn bla brains.’ U nieqaf hemmhekk.]
Bhal ma jghidu bil-Malti, il-hmar qatt ma’ jbiddel denbhu. Ghaliex ghandna ninsew il-passat? Biex forsi nivvutaw ghall-kandidati tal-PL? You’ve got another think coming, honey.
I don’t want more jobs. One is enough for me.
Din bla vizjoni donna. Qatt ma thoss il-bzonn ghal job ahjar milli ghandek?
It is not what Edward and Marlene have done that counts but what I am going to do. A parliamentary secretary has hurt me and so I will NOT vote PN but AZZJONI NAZZJONALI. In this way the PN will know how hurt and annoyed I am.
[Daphne – No. What the PN will know is that you have the mind of a child.]
It would be interesting to know what this Parliamentrary secretary did to “Hurt” you so much to make you do such a stupid thing!
Do you think you are the only one who has been dealt a bad hand? My father is currently facing a problem that is really bothering him and I’m sure he was tempted to say ‘I will not vote because nobody is helping me on this but as a responsible citizen he still has the interest of the country at heart and will not bite his nose to spite his face’.
By voting for your beloved Azzjoni Nazzjonali you are wasting a vote. By voting Azzjoni Nazzjonali and not PN you are asking the likes of Glen Bedingfield to represent you. By voting Azzjoni Nazzjonali you are sending 3 or4 representatives who might make a “mistake” when voting on something important… and then who will you blame?
Nesa x’gara hames snin ilu, Busuttil. Biex tal-lejber hadu siggu iehor ghal xejn. X’ hela! Ahjar kwazi kwazi tqattghu milli tivvota lil AN.
“More and better jobs”
Does he mean fabbrika tal-kappar jew fabbrika tal-imsiemer?
Hehe funny!!! How about you name some of the factories that this government ever created?? Come on… i bet you do not come up with even one name not even if you try hard.
[Daphne – Unbelievable. Gejja bil-fabbriki.]
It just goes to show where the Labour stronghold lies, doesn’t it?
@Mary
Governments are not there to create factories, as you put it. Their aim in a modern (well at least for Malta!) economy is to create the legal and regulatory framework within which people risk their monies and invest. I can mention ALL financial services and gaming companies in Malta as an example of the “factories” this government has created, as you put it.
So, what do I win, since you made a bet? … ahjar tmur tara lil Joseph fuq ONE TV bhalissa, halli titghallem ftit ekomomiks.
In our world the government doesn’t create factories, it attracts businesses that don’t operate for the sake of giving people a job. They operate for a profit and therefore make what the consumers want.
I’d rather work as a software developer in Smart City than bottling bananas in a factory.
Le, fabbrika tad-Desserta …
Well at least Professor Scicluna is consistant…
Imma xi trid tghid b’daqshekk???? Qed tirraguna b’mohh ta tigiega! Issa qeghdin fl-EU. Spicca. Ghalhekk issa ghandna d-dover li nahtru l-ahjar rapprezentanti lokali. Kif jista jkun f’pajjiz demokratiku ttella nies minn partit wiehed biss?? Dik tigi dittatura. Ma tarax!! Ahna ghandna bzonn nies b’diversita’ ta opinjonijiet. Naqla l-kappell lil Simon Busuttil imma naqla iehor ghal Louis Grech, li t-tnejn ghamlu xoghol siewi. Daqstant iehor kunfidenta li hekk se jaghmlu nies bhal Edward Scicluna u Marlene Mizzi. Ghandhom integreta bizzejjed. Tkompliex min ghalik tipprova z-zeblah u tipprova ddahhaq b’dawn il-klips li qed tikteb. ghax qalu LE u issa IVA. X’jimporta? Dawn huma kollha VAVATI!!!! Kif ma tisthiex
[Daphne – My God, the intelligence quotient of Labour supporters is so impressive.]
Ta Daphne – that was praise indeed
Nahseb ma tifhimx l-ironija f’din il-bicca xoghol.
Bejn postijiet tal-vaganzi f’Sqallija u l-paga ta’ MEP, il-politici Laburisti qeghdin jgawdu l-iktar fl-EU.
Frixnilhom is-sodda siehbi.
Truly some mothers do have them. Funny episodes comparable to Frank Spencer’s. Ooops sorry, I meant tragic episodes.
“Edward Scicluna–because your (my) aspiration for (a) more (bigger) and better job in the European Parliament. Your vote counts (for me).” I want to swim in the gravy.
If edward scicluna had contested with PN you would have hailed him as a superstar!
[Daphne – Irraguna ftit iehor mill-warrani, Edward, forsi ikolli ftit izjed pacenzja ghalik. If Edward Scicluna were standing for election under the PN ticket, I would have assumed – quite rightly – that he is pro-EU and not anti-EU, and so I would not have had a problem with him.]
Madonna santa, Edward, you really are a one-track minded pedant!
Jenni, tsk tsk,
English please !
U araw x’qal bedinfield:
“Top most priority on the Labour Party’s agenda is the provision of decent job opportunities. It is an imperative that jobs to be decent should yield good fruit to the private investment in one’s human capital.” ( http://www.glennbedingfield.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=88:provision-of-decent-job-opportunities-is-labours-top-priority-&catid=36:latestnewscategory&Itemid=44 )
[Daphne – There speaks somebody who couldn’t even run a restaurant.]
It’s two restaurants and a “wine bistro”, Daph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Bedingfield
Ar’hemm, hej!
I read and weep.
Hi Graham Crocker. U sound very intelligent indeed, noting li ma fhimtx l-ironija. Imma na nohodiex bi kbira, ghax all of you are making me aware that whoever is blue is supreme – qiskom ringiela kokki. Whereas i am Cetta down the road. Anyway we are always in your debt for letting us join Europe. You should be very happy that now there are more Labourites who have second and third homes in Sqallija, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Toscana. .Why can’t you stand that! Ajjura ghalihom? u Le – come on. Mr Mizzi please note that you are right.There is so much financial investment going on right now. Smart city is in operation, jobs are being created galore! Everyone is travelling to exotic places, money is being squandered on lovely three-course meals and everyone is fat and happy. Yes! We should be thankful – who wants peanut factories anyway! We are living in the Garden of Eden and I am always watching NET TV – who wants more??
[Daphne – And to think there are 140,000+ people who reason like this. What went wrong?]
nothing is wrong. U think with your right side of your mind and i think with my left. that’s why il-baqra tinbiegh kollha!!
Dear Mary, we didn’t “let you” join the EU; we dragged you in, kicking and screaming and stamping your feet.
So……. what’s bugging you Antoine????? I thanked you for dragging us in the Garden of Eden whereby there is no want.
Mary – A “holy” Labourite. What a deadly combination!
Mary, it’s interesting that you should mention the Garden of Eden. That was the Zejtun coach company which provided the “coach tar-rebħa” to Alfred Sant during the 1996 election campaign and was immediately rewarded with a huge contract – given by direct order – as soon as he became PM. Kollox bil-galbu.
din ta skond iz zokk il fergh ma tistx tkun izjed addata ghal daphine
kif ma tisthix tikumenta b’ dan il mod fuq proffesur scicluna bniedem ta dik l-integrita
kliem izjed mieghek huwa hela ta zmien
Mhux kulhadd impressjonat bit-titli, taf, sinjura.
Mary….
are you plain stupid naturally? Or have you done some intensive course at the Brigata Laburista to achieve such low IQ levels? You haven’t just hit rock bottom… you’ve started digging… fast.
I told you i’m plain stupid – im Cetta down the road – We should be so proud to have so many professors here lecturing people around. To echo my words – qiskom ringiela kokki – hopefully you understand the language!
If “professor” is a term of contempt within the MLP, why do you insist on calling your heroes “Doktor” (as in “Doktuhsant” and “DoktorMuscat”) and “Professor” (“Il-Professur Scicluna”)?
Secondly, listen up and listen good: most of us here aren’t Nationalist supporters, or “blue”, or whatever you call them. We’re just anti-Labour. A pox upon your party, which narrowly failed to screw up my life, Mary. Please understand that I would have voted for Beelzebub himself if he’d been the only pro-EU candidate. You lot have painted yourselves into the most godawful corner, and there you shall stay, for all I care.
Skond iz zokk il fergha is the most suitable daphine
a man like MR SCICLUNA SHOULD BE MORE RESPECTED
HE KNOWS HIS WORK BETTER THAN A NATIONALIST MINDED WOMEN
WHAT PROFIT IS THE GOVERMENT GAINING
IF HE WAS WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS POSITION OF ALL THE TAXES
Why are you shouting, have you no manners? We are not at a Labour Party meeting.
Speaking of shouting:
meta kont taht it-tinda nisma’ lil kandidati jitkellmu fuq l-elezzjoni, ma stajtx ma jaqbadniex bard meta wasal it-turn ta’ Vince. Jidher li kien Laburist. Biex jargumenta irid jghajjat; ma jafx dan jargumenta bla ma jiggieled?
Ghidlu ftit, Mario, forsi jaqtaghha din ghax ha jqabbizieli!
Connie,
Can you tell me where you are seeing integrity in Professor Scicluna? In his Yes/No to EU stance? In his becoming part of the motley crew of Labour’s ‘team rebbieħ għall-Ewropa’? Ħallina!
@Connie
If Professor Scicluna had any political integrity he should have come out and said that EU membership is good for Malta and that the No campaign had seriously endangered Malta’s future. When I hear him say words to this effect I will accept that he has political integrity.
I am not attacking him as a person as he is indeed very respectable. It is a pity that he decided to get involved with the bunch of clowns that is the PL.
The item of EU membership is very subjective. I know a few LP supporters who voted in favour and alternatively a few PNers who voted against. That is why the result was, albeit not a close call, but still close enough NOT to be called a strong vote in favour of the EU. However, the PN seems to call for this election as if it should be legitimately a contest between PN candidates only. No way!! On the same grounds LP would be legitimately entitled to have all women in malta voting for its candidates only coming next elections!! No way either!!
PN should stop calling out at LP contestants for their past voting, and calling for 5 PN MEPs. They are only making a laugh out of themselves.
In addition some talk as if only LP politicians do all that matters for the prize of money. All politicians do!! Get a Life.
As for “Even the phrase ‘more and better jobs’ is stolen straight out of the Nationalist Party’s general election campaign of last year. Kif ma jisthux”. Reminds me also the first PN billboard a few days ago. Have you seen the latest NSO statistics?? Who should be ashamed??
As for Scicluna many regard him as he’s definitely one of the few contestants from the whole bunch (PN+LP+others) that can make a difference up there. Scicluna, Busuttil and Grech are a must up there for Malta, no matter the party they represent. Moreover Busuttil and Scicluna many a time disclosed their yearning for better harmony between MPs in the EU. Judging on their past integrity, I have no doubt they can make a good job.
Pity I cannot vote coming next elections due to circumstances beyond my control.
close??? 19,000 + votes difference in Malta is BIG very BIG indeed
Daphne is Daphne, she will never change.
She must know that professor Edward Scicluna is a god send to maltese politics. You and the PN must be finding it very difficult to swallow the fact that the PL team for the EP elections have such renowned and respectable people like Prof Scicluna. I will not waste any more of my time. My no1 vote is sure going to be for Prof Scicluna.
[Daphne – In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king: that’s Scicluna’s role in the Labour Party, amongst all the criecer and brainless chickens and people like Glenn and Manwel Cuschieri’s brother, former police inspectors, people who make sexual passes at Teli Tubi puppets and Super One hacks hoping to metamorphose into prime ministers. I’m not surprised you see him as the messiah.]
Daphne with all your nonsense I have to say i like the way you conjure your replies. – does it take you long to get inspired ?
[Daphne – No. You don’t need inspiration when you have a brain to think with. And it helps to be properly bilingual.]
Connie – tahlix zmien. Don’t read these commentaries.
i think that is troubling daphine
our candidates are far too good to be true especially mr scicluna and marlene
[Daphne – You’re bound to think of them as too good to be true, yes. Anyone would, compared to Manwel Cuschieri’s brother and Glenn Bedingfield, and with three leaders like those. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.]
Connie, if the PL candidates are °too good to be true° it means they aren’t true.
I never trusted this guy, especially since 1996, when he announced the MLP victory on TVM (remember the graphs) with a huge smirk on his face. I always felt that there was something creepy about him.
He always made it a point of being addressed as Professor Scicluna, similar to Alfred Sant who insisted on Doctor Sant. It seems that these prefixes count a lot with the MLP voters. As for substance, that’s a different story.
I have been looking through all the blogs and it’s clear that the change in MLP has induced fear in PN members as the way you criticize is very childish
“Even the phrase ‘more and better jobs’ is stolen straight out of the Nationalist Party’s general election campaign of last year” ??? Then the PN’s last campaign was stolen straight out from the dictionary!
I am a floater and open minded when it comes to politics but may I assure you that articles like these are not the most efficient way of criticizing PL canditates, on the other hand it looks like someone fears their capibilaties.
[Daphne – I can’t speak for anyone else, but actually, what I fear is the lack of ‘capibilaties’.]
That’s a real howler!
Daphne believes that Malta belongs only to the PN / She hates with a passion anyone who belongs to the Labour Party. Therefore she is a racist pure and simple and as far as I am concerned she can go to hell / Prof Scicluna and Marlene Mizzi are contesting these elections with the Labour Party because they believe in real social democracy. We rge citizenz of Malta need more people like them to join the political frey and not people like you who are bigots
Vincent Grech
I don’t mind Daphne going to hell. Need some good conversational company down there. As someone once said, you go to heaven for the scenery and hell for the company.
Saying that, how do you reckon she is a racist? Is Labourite now a race? Is the voting process now controlled by genetic processes?
Didn’t you know that the Reds and the Blues have got a different DNA?
Well sometimes I wonder…
Yes some mothers do have them Daphne…it would be a tragedy if my daughter grows up to become an arrogant woman like you and an honour if my son grows up to be half as intelligent as Professor Scicluna. It goes to show that you have nothing substantial to criticise Professor Scicluna on.
[Daphne – You should be so lucky as to have a daughter like me. We are few and far between. I, on the other hand, would be appalled if my son grew up to have the consistency and credibility of ‘how I voted is irrelevant and how dare you ask me just vote for me instead’ Edward Scicluna. If your son is not already half as intelligent as Scicluna, then he is never going to be (and in any case, why set him the sad target of a mere half?). We are born with the intelligence we will have for the rest of our lives, and while it can be weakened, it can’t actually be increased. This is why I know already that my sons are more intelligent than the profs and not just half as intelligent. And it’s not just because I’m their fond mother, either. I don’t have to wait until they are 60 to find out. I guess with his genetic heritage, perhaps even half Scicluna’s IQ is too much to hope for, for your boy. Sorry about that.]
Dear, oh, dear – your skin seems to be getting thinner by the second.
Get a grip.
[Daphne – My skin was always unusually thin. Professor Mark Brincat had measured it for some research he was conducting into the link between skin thickness/thinness in youth and the risk of osteoporosis in old age.]