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By: Unexpected Traveller

Unexpected Traveller — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:36:01 +0000

The problem with little Joey is not “[He thinks his statements are worth repeating], or he’s one of those cunning people who are just plain thick. ” as you put it.

It’s that he knows what the people around him want to hear and says that. The problem is that the people around him and the population at large are two differing groups so he ends spending time doing damage control that he could have avoided had he been cunning in the first place.

I wonder if anyone who worked with him before could be asked about this … not at Super 1, obviously.

By: Caroline Said

Caroline Said — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:30:03 +0000

In reply to ASP.

Hysterical…acute embarrassment? Isn’t that what is the case already? Brussels banging its big drum about how Malta’s government is ignoring EU prescriptions in spite of Malta’s lauding its inclusion in the EU ethic? Isn’t that what socially sensible people should be right now?

Do NP transgressions supersede LP transgressions? I don’t think so; they’re both the same. It’s just that one represents the interests of wealthy classes and the other, the working class, i.e.the ignoramuses. Yet what keeps an economy ticking over? The working classes. Love ’em or hate ’em, they are the workhorses. They are the ones who keep the economy ticking over. Middle-to-upper-classes pocket national wealth and run away with it…without a sod’s thought about national interests. Show me an upper-crust individual who recognises Malta’s uniqueness and sticks his/her head out to preserve it…besides Astrid, that devil of yours. AwaIting your perspicacious comments about upper crust vis-a-vis FAA…

[Daphne – Everyone at Din L-Art Helwa for a start. It’s hardly a working class organisation. In my experience, it’s the working classes who have scant respect for the preservation of heritage, because theirs is a survivalist mentality. It might be changing, but only just. You make the mistake of thinking that just because people have money, they cease to be working-class, and that anyone with money is ‘upper crust’. In a couple of generations, yes, but it takes a couple of generations, especially when there is no willingness to change one’s working-class manners, mores and values. Also, please don’t get too excited about the romanticism of Mrs Vella as crusading ‘upper crust’ heroine – it’s more a case of a bored housewife stumbling on something to do. If she’d had a job to start with, none of this would have happened.]

By: A Camilleri

A Camilleri — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:09:40 +0000

You asked if there anybody out there who thinks that Black Monday should have happened. That assumes that the perpetrators repented. Somehow I doubt it.

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:24:59 +0000

In reply to eros. I don't really care what he says. I'm more concerned about what he does and how he does it. He is still surrounded by some of the MPs who let those atrocities happen and he is bringing back more who were left out or sent away by Alfred Sant.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:28:11 +0000

On the news this morning “Joseph Muscat says that it’s the PN that should apologise for the events of the 70s/80s era”, According to his logic if the PN hadn’t complained so much – after all why all the fuss about a bomb here or there, wrecking the opposition leader’s home, the curia, the law courts, the MUT building, testing tear gas on people attending a meeting in Floriana, attacking a lady in Hamrun because her umbrella was blue – the list is endless – nothing of this would have happened. For Joseph Muscat these were just pinpricks. I wonder what he would sanction were he to become prime minister? One thing he might change is official ceremonies. He hates them – maybe he’ll be organising free meals at Macdonald’s instead.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:06:02 +0000

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091016/local/muscat-trying-to-rewrite-history-pn

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:11:06 +0000

In reply to ASP. Daphne. Won't happen. He's got over 3 years to screw up, By this time next year, he'll be up to his neck in doo doo. He will, however, retain that ridiculously childish smirk.

By: Jacques Rene Zammit

Jacques Rene Zammit — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:17:01 +0000

In reply to DF.

@DF It’s not cynicism. As Shaw would have it “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven’t got it.” – and I’d hate to think you are on the wrong side of Shaw’s division!

Accurately seeing the old man behind the veil posing as a wizard is a gift for the very few. What baffles me is how some people can selectively see this happening only on the PL side. The latest generations of Nationalist politicians seem to find an equally unperceptive audience to woo with their hollow promises and nonexistent plan. It’s the Maltese version of the Delaware Effect – we manage to exploit the greatest weaknesses of the democratic system to our own disadvantage.

By: P Shaw

P Shaw — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:10:07 +0000

Daphne, you forgot to mention that the article was written by Kurt Sansone. In that case, logic would be cpmpletely absent.

Does this guy have a lot of say at The Times these days? He is writing most of the news articles relating to politics, where the bias is quite transparent.