That's right, Joseph – that's why they elected you
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January 22, 2011 at 10:18pm
Joseph Cuschieri with an intelligent Maltese person who is capable of articulating political discourse
“The Maltese people are very patient, intelligent and capable of assessing the articulation of political discourse. Yet, patience is running out. It is unacceptable that the Maltese and Gozitans are being taken for a ride regarding their sixth EP seat.”
– Joseph Cuschieri, in an open letter to European Parliament president Jerzy Buzek
Read more about this in my column in The Malta Independent on Sunday tomorrow.
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I can’t look at Joseph Cuschieri without picturing him scurrying around like a very excited child with a Cheshire-cat look on his face, in great anticipation of the statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel being put on the pedestal during the Balluta feast … all of a year or two ago. With would-be ministers with that mentality …
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=13883
According to Maltastar, he’s been ‘unjustly deprived from his seat’.
Does that mean he can’t afford any knickers?
I wonder whether Jerzy (or Jezry as Maltastar so delicately calls him) cares whether the families are Maltese or Gozitan.
What exactly does Joseph Cuschieri mean by “assessing the articulation of political discourse”? Evaluating political speeches?
‘Asserting the articulation’ is a medical speech pathology term, meaning making sure that the muscles of the mouth and tongue are properly used to produce sounds. I can’t get what he means by this.
No, assessing new combinations of choice swear words to articulate.
He likes the sound of the words and put them together.
A quick search on the internet shows the ‘articulation of political discourse’ part is quite a common catch phrase in the political arena.
He just threw in the ‘assessing’ bit to put the sentence together. I used to do the same when I was young: I’d read something I liked or that made me smile and I’d always find a way of including it in my next essay, no matter what the title happened to be. I suspect something similar in this case.
eeeets all abawt da moneeeeee!!!
Mela you are already going to bed, Daph? Xi dwejjaq. Gdnite then.
Hallik minn Cuschieri! Take a look at this corny lot: http://www.facebook.com/update_security_info.php?wizard=1#!/photo.php?fbid=124049620997493&set=a.124045454331243.21017.106498179419304
(The Plaza seems to be running a Valentine’s Day photo competition … on Facebook, naturally! It must be the latest craze.)
Having said that, there’s a really cute photo which would probably deserve to win: http://www.facebook.com/update_security_info.php?wizard=1#!/photo.php?fbid=124054220997033&set=a.124045454331243.21017.106498179419304&pid=154254&id=106498179419304
The photo of those oldies is sure great, but this is quite honest for today’s generation I think:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=124128220989633&set=a.124045454331243.21017.106498179419304&pid=154643&id=106498179419304
Maybe this guy Joe does not realise he won his seat thanks to disgruntled ‘PN’ voters. He can’t wait to see himself amongst Europe’s elite politicians, though. After all he gave up his Maltese parliamentary seat to make way for his great mexxej gdid, so he thinks he deserves his European parliament seat as a sort of divine right.
I’m still smarting from the injustice of it all. Four seats to the party which did everything in its power to keep us out and two to the party who devoted all its energy to persuade us in. It’s not in the best interest of ‘the four’ that we get the best deals out of European Union membership.
Somehow I think that if/when he gets this sixth seat we are going to be less represented in the EP rather than more.
”What’s good for the goose is good for the gender says Gonzi.”
English as it is written ONLY in Maltastar.com
We should stop using the Maltese English expression “taken for a ride”.
What a nation of low bred imbeciles. We should thank our lucky stars they haven’t kicked us out of the EU yet. “Maltese and Gozitans” indeed.
When I read newspaper articles written by Simon Busutill or by David Casa I sense depth by these EP members.
Then I read something written by this Cuschieri and I just feel embarrassed for him. He is so unrefined, so ill mannered. Absolutely no political acumen and certainly not a good ambassador for the Maltese people.
Malta is full of bright people – what did my fellow Maltese see in him?
Something tells me that he is more bitter for being conned into giving up his seat in the Maltese parliament than he is about the delay in getting his seat in the EP.
He just can’t wait to join the gravy train.
Joseph (not Muscat) will earn his seat because John Dalli will not serve his sentence in Brussels for the whole four years. He intends to contest the next general elections.
The unassuming John Dalli will magnanimously cede his seat to Mr Cuschieri.
[Daphne – John Dalli is not an MEP.]
According to Illum he has already met some PN backstabbers – sorry, backbenchers – and he will be sacrificing himself not for his personal gain but because he’s a true Maltese patriot.
Gonzi will cut this story short by the end of next year: the Europan Commission would not accept Joseph’s candidature even though Joseph Muscat backs him, and we get Commissioner Austin Gatt instead.
Referendum, local council elections and general election……Joseph & Co win and we will have the PN split in two.
Poor Joseph Cuschieri, Labour’s sacrificial lamb!
This ex Magic Kiosk waiter beat Marlene in the race for the sixth seat. That must have been a blow to her ego.
[Daphne – That is no reflection on Marlene Mizzi’s abilities. It is an indication of just how stupid you have to be to vote Labour. Labour apologists criticise me for equating a Labour vote with muddled thinking, but then how do they explain away the fact that given a choice between Marlene Mizzi and Joseph Cuschieri, the cruds choose Joseph Cuschieri. And please don’t give me Louis Grech as an example of a good decision. Louis Grech was elected – and we know this for a fact – on the strength of votes from people who have habitually always voted PN.]
Is he running out of patience because his term will not be long enough to entitle him to an MEP pension. We must all remember that Dear Joseph stayed on as an MEP despite being elected leader precisely for this reason. Yet everyone seems to have forgotten this.
Ex-Magic Kiosk waiter? I always thought the man’s face was familiar! Looking back, I think he must have followed in his brother Manuel’s footsteps there, too, because I seem to recall the latter serving take-away milkshakes at Magic Kiosk for a number of years.
So he is frustrated because Europe does not enforce a decision. What about those of us who are trying to register our cars in Malta – a right both under Maltese law and European law – and cannot do so because the government refuses to enforce the laws?
We are being taken for a ride by the administrative court which promised last year to hear the cases after Easter. It did not, however, state in which year.
This is a practical everyday issue since we still get stopped by the authorities and threatened with having the car taken away (illegal as per a decision by the court in Luxembourg), but it is still done here to extort money.
Since this MEP in waiting is so obviously frustrated, he could at least start working on something practical for European citizens in his country.
I am sure Cuschieri will be happy with the salary – when he gets his seat.
Does this mean that we have a bunch of liars in parliament ?
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=119120
“..along the lines that the Opposition would “lightly criticise” the government over the hikes for the sake of public appearance, and after that “everything would move forward” and MPs would have their pay rise.”
It’s not hard to believe this. And, they wanted a laptop as well.
Clearly Joseph Cuschieri’s open letter was (badly) ghost written. The man has not the slightest grasp of the English language.
He must have known enough English to serve at tables at Magic Kiosk: “Yes, thank you, bill sir? bye bye.”
At least he didn’t open with “Your Excellency, My Dear Brother”.
“In my opinion, this is unacceptable in a modern democracy since it leads to a democratic deficit which is unquestionably affecting Malta in a negative way”. – J.Cuschieri
I can’t see how having an extra seat in the EP would affect democracy in Malta. The only democratic deficit affecting Malta in a negative way is how Joseph Muscat obtained Cuschieri’s seat in parliament, when Cuschieri’s constituents elected him and not Muscat.
This wasn’t a case of switching seats, but a case of theft by deception if I may say so. A case of “give me this” and “I’ll offer you something I may/may not be able to give in return”.
While Cuschieri should know better than to engage in high-risk deals (job switching) with a bunch of sleaze-bags whose word has been proved over and over again to amount to nothing, I still believe what was done was inherently wrong. Cuschieri was promised something they couldn’t give him or had no authority to give him (he’s writing to Buzek to get something that was promised to him by someone else), so I firmly believe that Cuschieri was defrauded of the seat he was elected to hold by the Maltese voters.
I think this speaks volumes.
When Cuschieri gave up his seat in parliament, he was promised something in return by high-ranking members of th Labour Party. What they promised couldn’t be delivered and he ended up without a job and a source of income or at least with a lesser income, doing some other job he favours less than the one he was promised.
Therefore when we give the Labour Party power to run the country, it is deductively sound to assume that we too will b cheated.
If the Labour Party reneges on promises to its own men, what makes you think that they won’t renege on promises to people to whom they owe nothing?
After Muscat got what he wantd from Cuschieri, he pushed him to the back of his mind and screwed him. Once Muscat gets what h wants from us – becoming prime minister – he’ll screw us.
Labour promised Cuschieri a job – they didn’t say what sort of job, but they’re in no position to offer a job in private enterprise since the only enterprise they own runs at a loss.
Cuschieri, I think, was elected to the EP in an election – right?
After reading all the comments above, I reach the conclusion that Joseph Cuschieri wrote his open letter to the wrong person.
He should have sent it to Joseph Muscat, and could have asked for his seat back, honorarium increase included.