U hallina, Marlene
Pigs can fly. I am convinced of it. And if they don't, I will protest.
Plagued by accusations that she wasn’t thinking straight when she voted Yes in the referendum (or says she did) and then voted for Sant straight afterwards (or says she did), Mrs Mizzi is busy playing a game of Twister, trying to make her words seem more palatable.
And instead, she contorts herself even further and ends up looking even more of a flake. Dammit, it had to be a bloody woman to behave so stupidly. I can just hear the scathing bigots as I write this.
Here she in on timesofmalta.com today:
“I was convinced that the Labour government would not have negated the referendum and would have accepted it.”
U hallina, Marlene. What in God’s name are you talking about?
To compound her misery, she added that if her hero Sant failed to respect the referendum when he became prime minister, she would have “protested”. Oh yes, that would really have worked, wouldn’t it? Sant ignores the voice of the majority in a referendum, but if Marlene says he’s naughty, he’ll go down on his knees and say ‘sorry’.
Tal-biki.
And what if he ignored her squeaks and the country got stuck with the result? She was prepared to take that gamble, which really shows how much she cared about EU membership, how much she cared about us, and how very, very poor her sense of judgment is. People of Sant’s psychological make-up are incapable of changing their minds, and why vote for a man and hope he changes his mind when you can choose a man who thinks as you claim you do already?
Tad-dahk.
Alfred Sant denied and dismissed the referendum result the minute it was announced. I remember him clearly, up on the podium they had prepared for the NO victory celebration outside the party HQ, looking very much the worse for wear, his tie knotted somewhere beneath his ear, claiming that partnership had won and counting the dead and the absentees.
And he hasn’t changed his mind right up to today, still less before the 2003 election. And still Mrs Mizzi voted for him. She voted for him when, as clear as day, he said he was going to ignore the referendum because in his book, only the result of a general election counts. He told the people, in that general election: “Choose. It’s either me and no EU membership. Or it’s Fenech Adami and EU membership.”
Mrs Mizzi made her choice. And now she’s twisting around, trying to get out of it, and looking more foolish by the day. Well, I’m sorry, but what can you expect of somebody who’s prepared to tie her flag to the mast of a party led by a former Super One hack, l-ispettur Farrugia and that crass and vulgar clown Toni Abela?
I wonder whether Toni asks her whether she’s ‘shuna’ and ‘ala bieb ghajna’ in party meetings. Jaqq. Il-vera kaz.
And here’s Mrs Mizzi’s ‘vote for moi’ advertisement in today’s newspapers:
“I would like to see the insular mentality, so characteristic of islanders, to be diluted into a healthy blend of ‘Europeanism’. I would like to give children at an early age, a craving for learning and a yearning for knowledge.”
Yes, ma’am, we believe you. That’s why you voted in the 2003 general election for a man determined to keep us out of the European Union, because you wanted to dilute our insularity and give our children chances.
U mur l’hemm.
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Just wait till the swine flu virus merges with the avian flu virus.
PS, the pose in that photo reminds me of Guido de Marco.
Leonard, I was just thinking how much she looks like Gianella Caruana Curran in this photo.
Anna, I’ve never seen Gianella Caruana Curran, but I guess it makes sense. The pose has such a philosophical touch about it; the more I look at the photo, the more I see images of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle … without those silly beards of course.
“I would like to see the insular mentality, so characteristic of islanders, to be diluted […]”
Such cliched, sweeping rhetoric is typical of the pseudo-intellectual ‘radical chic’. It is gross, arrogant and condescending. The “insular mentality” stereotype may be characteristic of some, but not of others.
For a more informed and accurate view of islanders, I suggest reading Predrag Matvejevic’s ‘Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape’ (University of California Press, 1999), ISBN 0520207386, 9780520207387
Insular mentality moi? Up yours.
… just like she thought he wouldn’t do the unthinkable in 1996 and freeze Malta’s EU application….
Il veru PL, Partit tal-Lanzit. It just draws people who have the biggest lanzit , hdura,envy, and failures.
Prosit, Daphne, well said. My God, I used to think that she`s smart not like the majority of Labour candidates, but how wrong I was. I guess that once you get hooked with Labour you just start saying stupid things so that you go down to their level and that will make you feel loved by the majority of their ‘bright’ delegates.
Or is it because she`s reading for a DBA that makes her bright and us lesser mortals all stupid? Ma nafx u thawwadt – one thing is for sure though, Dr Alfred Sant, God bless his little cotton socks, (as Bocca used to say) would have never joined the EU because the Nationalists had beaten him to the idea. He wasn`t the originator of the idea, so it was not good for Malta.
In fact, he is still writing against Malta joining the EU and the Eurozone and anything that is European. What really worries me is that whenever I speak to Labour sympathisers, they are all moaning about what a big mistake we made by joining the EU and how right Sant was.
I just hope that if they`re ever elected to government, they won`t take us out of the EU. Maybe Toni is already working on a proposal for the Kunsill Generali for the delegates to decide with a show of hands. Can you or anyone put it past them?
Marlene’s right on message. Here she is, telling us to vote for her because (1) she has the academic background (how Labour is that – anzi mahargitx ic-certifikati bhal sida Sant), and (2) she doesn’t have an inferiority complex. Oh, and she thinks that questions about how she voted in the referendum are “vulgar probing” because she was a “private citzen”. Actually, she was chairman of Sea Malta and paid out of public funds. And there is no privacy on the vote for people who are asking us to vote for them. We have the right to know where they stand and where they stood on every political issue.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/mepelections/blogs/marlene-mizzi/20090521/video-interview-marlene-mizzi
People who don’t have an inferiority complex – or a chip of some sort – would not feel the need to parade their “achievements” or qualifications around. The ones with the most – and possibly best – qualifications probably “keep” them quietly to themselves.
Well, if Marlene wants to consider herself part of the “Sliema crowd” to get their vote then she really needs to improve her English!
[Daphne – That’s what I thought. “Absolutely yes.”]
“Absolutely yes.” – It’s the equivaltent of “Thank you lilek”
…NOT that Sliema people speak really good English mind you… half and half , worst English i ve ever heard!destroying both Maltese and English :S…hahahaha… but on the whole…i agree :)
[Daphne – What Sliema people, Michelle? Oh, do you mean the hordes of chavs who have moved into the new flats over the last two decades? Then I would agree. All the Sliema people I know speak perfect or near-perfect English.]
“Pigs can fly. I am convinced of it. And if they don’t, I will protest.”
In the end she must have managed. She protested and swine flu.