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.

He should have sent it to Joseph Muscat, and could have asked for his seat back, honorarium increase included.

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.

He must have known enough English to serve at tables at Magic Kiosk: “Yes, thank you, bill sir? bye bye.”

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.

“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.

“..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.

He likes the sound of the words and put them together.