The tangled wires of the Labour elves' minds
Love the upper arms, Michelle - I have a couple of lovely wraps you could borrow next time.
Every time the Labour elves hit the internet to whip up some brilliant public relations strategy for their political party, I’m reminded of why they vote Labour in the first place.
They can’t think.
Of course, there are thousands of people who can think and still vote Labour, for reasons of tradition, resentment, misplaced idealism, or what have you.
But this lot aren’t among them, that’s for sure.
They have interpreted my criticism of their Great Leader’s decision to enter his children into the church schools lottery as an attack on the decision to send them to a church school, full stop.
Read my lips, Labour elves: it’s the dissonance between that decision and the progressive and liberal values that your Great Leader claims to profess that is at issue here.
That, and the chancer’s approach of trying to get something for free before resorting to Plan B and paying for it.
Now the elves with tangled wires for brains have threatened to ‘reveal’ the names of Nationalist politicians who sent their children to church schools.
Reveal? Reveal? My god, these people are ridiculous.
Ghax ma tfakkarx ftit lill-qarrejja fejn baghtu u jibghatu skola lit-tfal taghhom il-maggoranza tal-ministri bhal Austin Gatt, Censu Galea, Michael Frendo, Censu Tabone, Tonio Borg, Dolores Cristina, Tonio Fenech u l-ohrajn f’ dawn l-ahhar ghoxrin sena?
Censu Tabone, for heaven’s sake. His oldest children are my parents’ age and he hasn’t been a cabinet minister for 20 years. But maybe they’re not aware of that, and picked his name out of a hat.
As for Michael Frendo, his children went to San Anton School. I know this for a fact, because they were in the same class as mine.
This comes after the earlier ‘revelation’ that had me in fits:
TAFU LI DEFNI MARRET SKOLA TAL-KNISJA HI UKOLL?
Iva, Chris – I think the Dorotey.
You just have to laugh. It’s like they’re on a totally different planet. I knew there was a cultural gulf in Malta, but really, I had no idea it was so great even in the younger generation.
They’re really no better than those women who, in the Karin Grech Maternity Ward back in 1986, had never seen a packet of Coco Pops and gathered round me to stare at it, asking each other questions about what it might be and talking about me in the third person as though I was deaf or something in a zoo, or Captain Cook just off the ship to mix with the feathered natives. I had to hold out the packet and offer it around and then they slowly approached and touched it and, what do you know, even addressed me directly in the second person.
We forget, sometimes, that’s it’s only been one generation. Not enough time for real change.
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‘You just have to laugh. It’s like they’re on a totally different planet. I knew there was a cultural gulf in Malta, but really, I had no idea it was so great even in the younger generation.’
At long, long last you’re finally beginning to realise that the ‘younger generation’, on which you have in the past pinned your hopes that Malta may one day take its place amongst the civilized nations of the world, is – by and large – a reflection of the older one and there is almost no hope that even there there will be thinking before voting.
I’m damn glad you’re doing your best to change that, though.
Yes , and why do you still bother about these people?
[Daphne – They are an endless source of entertainment, and through them, it is possible to entertain others.]
I have not been on the TYOM blog for a while simply because not only do I find it disgusting but on some level also depressing.
Since I’ve been away from Malta, nostalgia for my country tends to make me see a lot of things about Malta a little more positive than they probably really are. When I read the TYOM I come down with a bang – my feeling is “oh my god how embarrassing” – I find nothing entertaining about the sheer malevolence, vengefulness, lack of argumentation tactics and the abundance of bassezza.
All of this saddens me because it’s obvious that those aspects of Malta and the Maltese which I hated so much have not changed at all.
ah and by the way, there’s an article on today’s Corriere della Sera that Vladimir Luxuria has had a sex change operation, so there you go, you’re not a transexual anymore – phew!
I think their way of thinking is a matter for crying not laughing
Tonio Borg’s son attended St. Martin’s College, which is a private school not a church school. I know this because I attended the same school.
“They are an endless source of entertainment, and through them, it is possible to entertain others.”
Well said. Keep it up please.
The question they should ask themselves and put to their readers is: if they had it their way in the 80s, where would the private and Catholic schools be today?
MarioP, the answer to your question is, neighbours of the Blue Sisters.
The answer is simple: “Jew b’xejn jew xejn”.
Il-Progressivi of the 70s and 80s seized the banks, kicked the Blue Sisters out, burned The Times, ransacked the Courthouse and the Curia, beat up anyone who was ‘not with them’ and dared open his/her mouth, murdered Raymond Caruana and protected his killer, framed an innocent person and nearly succeeded in murdering him too when he was hospitalized, ‘stole’ private properties for which the NP governments have spent over 100 million in compensation and millions more to come, and the list is endless.
With a track record like that, is it so surprising that their present leader tried to get a freebie for his two kids?
The thing is whether Joey & Michelle decided to send their kids to a church school is nobody’s business. Eddie’s kids went to St. Aloysius – I’m sure you knew that but what are you on about again? Seriously, are you demented or something?
[Daphne – Like Kurt, there’s a work of art in Luqa which you could put to good use. Please stop coming in here in droves to shore up my conviction that people vote Labour because they can’t think straight. Yes, Fenech Adami sent his children to church schools. Might I remind you that there was no lottery in those days, he paid full fees, and above all, sending them to a church school was entirely consonant with his beliefs, his principles and his values. That is precisely what I am on about. If it is too hard to you to understand, then yes, I’m not surprised you’re impressed by ‘Joey and Michelle’.]
Joseph Muscat has failed miserably at being progressive as the Labour party still harbours communist ideals.
“Ghax ma tfakkarx ftit lill-qarrejja fejn baghtu u jibghatu skola lit-tfal taghhom il-maggoranza tal-ministri bhal Austin Gatt, Censu Galea, Michael Frendo, Censu Tabone, Tonio Borg, Dolores Cristina, Tonio Fenech u l-ohrajn f’ dawn l-ahhar ghoxrin sena”
The Nationalists did well to send their children to private schools.
The Labour elves have forgotten that during this time (Dom Mintoff – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici era) those schools were demonised for charging fees yet many government ministers went ahead and sent their children to Catholic schools and not to state schools.
So much for principles.
[Daphne – Tell me about it. The cross-over’s daughter, Letty Baldacchino (current Norman Lowell fanatic, God bless her) was in my class at St Dorothy’s.]
Just as it it is entertaining it is also pathetic as they have a vote too
Jien li ninharaq meta xi hadd bhal Dr Muscat li jzommu mal-Labour (xi kultant ghandi d-dubji kemm hu Laburist fil-veru sens tal-kelma), jigwadanjaw minn affarijiet li huma kienu opponew b’ruhom u gisimom.
Kienu ghaddew ligi li membru parlamentari ma’ kienx jista’ jiddefendi kawzi l-qorti; kif telgha l-PN Joe Brincat mar u kiser il-ligi li ivvota favurha.
Riedu jghalqu l-iskejjel tal-Knisja, u kollha bghatu ‘l-uliedhom hemm.
Kienu kontra l-kunsilli u dahlulhom sew.
Kienu kontra d-dhul ta’ Malta fl-UE u ghandhom iktar siggijiet mill-PN.
Qed jiggieldu biex jiehdu lura l-hlas tar-registrazzjoni tal-karozzi li xtraw second hand, wara li wiehed mill-MEPs taghhom gie elett min jaf fejn mar jizzaghabel waqt li kien qed jittiehed vot importanti ghal-Malta fuq il-Frontex.
Eh bilhaqq dik tar-ritratt ghanda fejn tpingi xini bil-qlugh miftuh kif kellhu Guzi l-Bahri fuq dirghajha. Imlahhma l-mara, kif inhobbhom jien.
Ma’ din il-lista tista’ zzid ukoll il-fatt li wara Mintoff kien ghadda l-PN biz-zufjett ghax talbu li jkollom stazzjon tar-radju taghhom, imbaghad kienu huma li grew fethu s-Super One qishom kienu dejjem favur stazzjonijiet privati.
Li tellghu iktar siggijiet mill-PN ghall-parlament Ewropew mhux tort taghhom imma ta’ dawk in-Nazzjonalisti egoisti li juzaw l-vot taghhom bhala arma u jigu jaqghu u jqumu mill-gid kollettiv tal-pajjiz.
Gahan, dik ghandha post fejn tpingi mhux gifen imma the whole Spanish armada.
I believe that there is nothing wrong in sending your children to church schools. However, god forbid that children in church schools will experience the same situation we had during the Labour governments as this was a serious blow to our education.
“They can’t think.”
I believe they try. But they have socialist blinkers on. They are surely not progressive, which is why Joseph Muscat is trying to make his party look progressive.
As socialists, they defend the system – the party – rather than cross-checking the criticism against a set of principles.
If Joseph Muscat does not address this matter by 2013, and he is elected prime minister, he is likely to find the strongest opposition from within his own party, like Alfred Sant did before him.