Comments on: The dead didn’t vote in Ireland, says Muscat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:17:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: ASP https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/#comment-33235 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:17:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3787#comment-33235 In reply to ASP.

Imma, allura, can another referendum be held next year with the same question and the Nos win? Ma jridux jghaddu ghaxar snin biex jerga jsir referendum fuq l-istess haga?

]]> By: john https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/#comment-33234 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:10:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3787#comment-33234 In reply to Karl Flores.

You seem to be saying, Karl, that 95% of those “in the cradle of the Labour Party” have no idea who someone in the public eye (long time chairman of the Housing Authority, long time newspaper columnist) is. That’s no mean indictment on the awareness of those in the cradle of the party.

]]> By: AC https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/#comment-33233 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:50:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3787#comment-33233 Joseph Muscat just made the biggest mistake of his life by employing Marisa Micallef. Big, big gaffe.

]]> By: ASP https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/#comment-33232 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:39:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3787#comment-33232 How come a referendum decision by the Irish a year ago was overturned a year later? Can there be another referendum next year which could overturn this year’s result? The same happened in 2004 or 2003 when 10 new countries joined the EU. First the Irish said NO and a year later (or less) said yes.

[Daphne – The turn-out was extremely low last year. Basically, the Nos were motivated to vote and they were the ones who turned up. This year, there was motivation among the Yeses, too.]

]]> By: Hans Peter Geerdes (aka H.P. Baxxter) https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/#comment-33231 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:38:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3787#comment-33231 In reply to Mario Debono.

It may seem inane to you, but it’s the Maltese grin of success. It’s not only Muscat who has it.

]]> By: Mario Debono https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/#comment-33230 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:12:14 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3787#comment-33230 That inane grin on the cover of this ridicolous attempt at an early biography of the nonentity says it all, doesn’t it?

]]> By: Matt https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/#comment-33229 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:47:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3787#comment-33229 Another insightful article. I have a problem understanding what does Labour stands for now. Under Fenech Adami’s leadership the PN adopted and enhanced generously the social benefits introduced by Labour. The PN even outdide the MLP with the long list of social programmes. What type of change does Joseph Muscat have in mind, may I ask? Does he want to do away with these social programmes so we can have change? To expand the economy, the PN is liberalising it. Is Joseph Muscat’s plan to micromanage the economy as his predecessors did, so that we can see a contraction and a change? Muscat has done very well academically but he lacks maturity to run a country.

]]> By: Harry Purdie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/#comment-33228 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:29:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3787#comment-33228 Insightful article, Daphne. The boy/man has not yet begun to feel the ‘heat’. Cool? Nerds with beards? Misguided Ms’s? Labour die-hards are sharpening their knives. The blues haven’t yet unsheathed theirs. Over three years to go. Should be fun. Good luck to the gnome; he’ll need it.

]]> By: jomar https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/#comment-33227 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:10:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3787#comment-33227 Joseph Muscat’s history is ambiguous at best. On the one hand we have the man who was adamantly against Malta joining the EU, while on the other, we have the man who rejoices at the positive result of the Irish vote.

He seems to operate on delay-mode, having relented somewhat and acknowledged – sort of – that the ‘Yes’ vote won in 2003, despite the fact that he couldn’t have become an MEP had the ‘yes’ vote not won. So why did it take him five years to acknowledge the obvious?

Which raises the question: which world is Muscat living in, these days? I think that his split personality allows him to flit between the world of opportunism and the world of illusion, thinking that bringing on board obsolete castaways and modern weather vanes gives his party a winning image.

Of course there are others who think the same way, such as Desmond Zammit Marmara whose blog-post on timesofmalta.com yesterday was called ‘The Labour Party – A National Movement’.

[Daphne – It’s called magical thinking: those who self-delude believe that if they say something enough times – ‘the Labour Party is a national movement’ – then it will become fact.]

]]> By: Ethel https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/10/the-dead-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-in-ireland-says-muscat/#comment-33226 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:49:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=3787#comment-33226 Latest news: Joseph Muscat is taking people to the streets – deja vu all over again.

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