Is that a golden horse in the background? God save us…

@Gahan: That “sezzjoni tal-pufti” quip made my day.

@H.P. Baxxter: you don’t understand what progressive means. You must be out of touch.

Now Joseph will introduce sexual orientation scanning for all Labour Party members and put all the non-heterosexuals in the LBGT section, which will come to be known informally in the party as its Sezzjoni tal-Pufti. It will be welcomed with a long round of applause at the next macho-dominated general conference.

I bet my bottom cent that the only reason why this section is being set up is because funds would be forthcoming from the International Lesbian and Gay Association.

[Daphne – As if. The real reason is that he doesn’t think of homosexuals as people like everyone else, but as UFGs or up-for-grabs voters.]

Bottom line being, as always, “It’s their fault we lost the election.”

Just when you think they’ve reached the pits of absurdity and couldn’t possibly dig further….

http://maltastar.com/pages/ms09dart.asp?a=5210

“Indirect hints given by Joseph Muscat during the election campaign enabled the Nationalist Party to deduce that the MLP was about to launch an attack on Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, PN general secretary Joe Saliba tells The Sunday Times in an interview published today.

Dr Muscat never actually mentioned Dr Pullicino Orlando, but comments he made at different activities were enough for the PN to send Dr Pullicino Orlando to Dr Sant’s activities as the attack was about to be launched.

In an interview with Herman Grech, Mr Saliba explains that his own actions and comments during the Mistra controversy were not contradictory to what the Prime Minister said. His role as party general secretary was for the PN to win as many votes as possible. In contrast the Prime Minister’s priority was the country, not the party, he says.
Mr Saliba, who is to step down in the coming weeks after nine years at the post, says the PN has as much chance of winning the next general election as the MLP. It would be wrong for his successor to let Labour take a walk over, or take matters for granted, he says. The full text of the interview can be seen in The Sunday Times. Extracts in Maltese can be seen on video above.”

[Daphne – Thank you for reminding me that it was blabbermouth Muscat who gave the game away. Incredibly, I’d forgotten that the reason the Nationalist Party picked it up was because he blabbed so much, unable to resist dropping hints about how much he knows, like a big kid.]

I think that maybe Muscat meant to say (another case of expressing himself badly?) that this issue is distracting him from concentrating on the issues that are currently more important to the country.

The question the Maltese should want answered is “Why are such scandals so often the hot topic these days?”

a) Is it just perception?
b) Is it because of better enforcement (to the expense of other crimes is seems)?
c) Is there is more of it because of poor governance especially in state departments?
d) Is there more of it because the circle is getting bigger and bigger?
e) Is it just politicians throwing mud at each other, and nothing else?

Malta needs a healthy and more progressive opposition, at least in time for the next general election. A political party and its leader evolve and hopefully starting the campaign so very early gives Muscat enough time to practice, perhaps.

Pullicino Orlando had a direct interest in the project which ran into hundreds of thousands of euros. He did not put all his cards on the table when disclosing information to the prime minister. He handed the contract to him when asked to do so.

Even though the court’s judgment was in favour of MEPA public officers, it remains unacceptable that they held private meetings with Pullicino Orlando.

The AG should file an appeal on this dubious judgment. If Pullicino Orlando was satisfied with the judgment, he should know that people like me are not.

Sant wanted us to vote for him not because he was good but because Pullicino Orlando was percieved as doing something wrong. Sant was afraid of Pullicino Orlando at the television studios because his own MPs were doing worse things in respect of environmental issues.

Pullicino Orlando got all those votes because the Party did not, and could not, condemn his actions at the eleventh hour. When he entered the Mosta tent and cried he was not given a seat near the party leader, Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici and Tonio Borg. If the party knew about the goings-on of the Mistra case he would have been asked to come clean before contesting the elections under the party ticket. Dr Scerri’s behaviour on this matter was a shining example.

Joe Saliba and his team succeeded in transforming this pain in the ass into a weapon against Dr Sant.

If Joseph Muscat had some grey matter he wouldn’t have spoken out in public about the electoral strategic tactics of the PN. If this decoy business were true than it goes without saying that the PN strategists would not use it again: the adversaries know about it.

If Dr Muscat kept his mouth shut about his suspicions about this strategy he would have turned it against the PN in his favour come next election. He seems to want to prove to us how smart he is.