Comments on: Labour and FAA – they're the frigging limit. Project blockers, the lot of them. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:56:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: mc https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/#comment-32100 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:56:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3598#comment-32100 In reply to Antoine Vella.

Well done Antoine for exposing Disgusted’s half truths. Disgusted embraces the same tactics of FAA – that of manipulation and distortion of the truth.

]]> By: Antoine Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/#comment-32099 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:47:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3598#comment-32099 In reply to Disgusted.

Disgusted (by the way, must be stressful being permanently disgusted) I will not indulge in comments on MEPA’s experts but will bring to your attention this quote from The Times website which you must have missed:

“The committee (i.e. Heritage Advisory Committee) said the bastions should take priority over the building and did not find any objection on condition that the building was adequately documented from the interior/exterior through drawings and photographs.

Consulted on the application, the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage said the oil depot was supported on beams that were embedded directly into the seaward walls of the Post of Castille and were therefore damaging the fabric of the fortifications.”
(http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090731/local/labour-mp-votes-against-eu-funded-project)

[Daphne – Thanks for that. Disgusted is probably relying on information that Astrid gave her, whereas I hadn’t read this at all.]

]]> By: Mandy Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/#comment-32098 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:05:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3598#comment-32098 In reply to Tal-Muzew.

U dak li qed jiddefendih mhux dan hu http://www.anglufarrugia.com/ ?

]]> By: Disgusted https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/#comment-32097 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:03:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3598#comment-32097 Just to add a bit on this story: it now seems that the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, the Heritage Advisory Committee and MEPA’s own Integrated Heritage Management Unit recommended AGAINST the demolishing of the naval oil depot…

Now, these are certainly not so-called amateurs or PL politicians: shall we now be regaled with the sort of comments some fellow posters usually indulge in?

]]> By: Joe Borg https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/#comment-32096 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:22:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3598#comment-32096 Tghid mhux ha nhallat erba’ tankijiet taz-zejt ma’ world heritage fortifications?

]]> By: Disgusted https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/#comment-32095 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:08:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3598#comment-32095 In case we have all forgotten, the Cultural Heritage Act protects building such as the ones which are in this permit being earmarked for demolishing.

This is one aspect I honestly do not understand: why do we have laws when it is those same politicians who have introduced such laws who are then the first to break them?

]]> By: Anthony Briffa https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/#comment-32094 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:03:49 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3598#comment-32094 Maybe the PL will try to do what they do best: stop the EU funding for the restoration.

]]> By: Tim Ripard https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/#comment-32093 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3598#comment-32093 In reply to Disgusted.

That’ll larn him (one hopes).

Such a pity you couldn’t be similarly passionate about United…or at least footie…

]]> By: Yanika https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/#comment-32092 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:54:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3598#comment-32092 In reply to Joe S.

The early beginnings of the Labour party, previously known as the Reformist party, supported the British, while their adversaries, the Anti-Reformist party, which later became the PN, supported the nobility and the Italians, and despised anything British. all this changed by the time the first bombs fell on Malta in WW2 of course. So there is a link between the PL and the British, it seems!

]]> By: Yanika https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/07/labour-and-faa-theyre-the-frigging-limit-project-blockers-the-lot-of-them/#comment-32091 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:52:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3598#comment-32091 In reply to Alfred Farrugia.

I don’t think demolishing half of the building will make the area better. Sometimes you have to choose… in this case the choice is between the majestic bastions and the shabby oil depots. I would say the first wins hands down.

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