Comments on: Surreal – but sadly, all too real because this country is NUTS https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:33:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lorna saliba https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/#comment-68709 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:33:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9228#comment-68709 Jo Grima was the minister of tourism during the eighties when his sons hijacked a prime piece of property near the St Andrew’s Parade Ground and converted it into a discotheque. The same Joe Grima who mounted a crusade against Labout when Alfred Sant was in power over some internal tug of war.

The same man the Nationlists welcomed on Net and gave serious airtime to voice his anti-Sant venom. This is a man who craves attention and like his brother needs desperatley to belong.

As far as Karmenu Vella is concerned, his charm exceeds his tainted past and as much as we would like to hate him for his crooked behaviour, he was never one to indulge in thuggery, lead the mobs or fuel hatred as did his counterparts. In spite of his trail of misdeeds, I still believe the man from Birzebbugia might still have some marriow in his bones and be able to offer some value.

]]> By: Kukkudrill https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/#comment-68708 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:36:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9228#comment-68708 In reply to Joseph Cauchi.

Good thing the Facebook Peasant Army doesn’t know what afterlife means, or they’d be in here with the usual threats of assassination.

]]> By: Kukkudrill https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/#comment-68707 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:35:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9228#comment-68707 In reply to Matt B.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRXVY1E4tA

http://hi5.com/friend/photos/displayPhotoUser.do?albumId=190993063&ownerId=153369394&currentIndex=0

]]> By: Kukkudrill https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/#comment-68706 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:29:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9228#comment-68706 In reply to Angus Black.

These are people who just don’t know how to ride off into the sunset (if they can find a carthorse strong enough to do it on).

And then they accuse Gonzi of clinging to power when he has been democratically elected.

I thought I saw the last of this fat trash back in 1987. How wrong I was.

]]> By: Anthony Farrugia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/#comment-68705 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:51:59 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9228#comment-68705 In reply to David Buttigieg.

“Great leader” a la Kim il Sung?

]]> By: Antoine Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/#comment-68704 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:17:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9228#comment-68704 The Labour Party under Sant spent many years and put much effort into persuading us that they have changed. The present policy of reappointing old-timers to official positions makes me wonder whether Muscat feels there is no longer any need to pretend.

Will “disgruntled Nationalists” vote for him anyway?

]]> By: TROY https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/#comment-68703 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:50:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9228#comment-68703 Kemm hu laghaqi dan Joe Grima. Nesa kemm kien jajghrek, Karm.

]]> By: Matt B https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/#comment-68702 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:29:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9228#comment-68702 In reply to mark.

Silvio Parnis, who loves enticing ladies with plastic roses, please note.

]]> By: Joseph Cauchi https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/#comment-68701 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:43:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9228#comment-68701 “the one nobody in the afterlife seems to want”

One of the best comments I have read.

]]> By: ciccio2011 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/surreal-but-sadly-all-too-real-because-this-country-is-nuts/#comment-68700 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:39:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9228#comment-68700 In reply to maryanne.

Back in 2001, he was already feeling not young anymore, and apparently he was even considering himself “ready to move on and make way.”

“Asked whether he would be standing in the next general elections, he replies, “Within the Labour Party we have some very good young people with new ideas and a more dynamic approach. When the time comes, all MPs should be ready to move on and make way.”

http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2001/0826/people.html

Now, 10 years later, and older, he seems to be staying on forever.

Generazzjoni Gdida indeed.

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