Comments on: Drop the make-up, Joseph

By: kev

kev — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:52:01 +0000

In reply to kev.

And still, you’re stretching it. Let me put it in another way, forsi tifhem: had Joseph remained mute, many of the thousands who stayed home would have voted No – enough for the No side to win.

Now, tell me, was Joseph instrumental or not?

[Daphne – Hmmm, that’s nice. Chaos theory as applied to politics.]

By: J Abela

J Abela — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:15:11 +0000

Those who wanted to vote Yes but preferred not to vote because it was too liberal an act for them, are essentially PN voters. But mind you these are the same people who can’t be bothered with keeping within party lines and felt no pressure from the church.

[Daphne – How do you know?]

By: Tim Ripard

Tim Ripard — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:27:17 +0000

‘And women don’t wear white shirt (sic) with tight collars and ties’. As I’ve always maintained, women are sartorially privileged. Tight collars and ties are an abomination in a hot country.

[Daphne – Thanks for pointing out the missing S.]

By: Joe Galea

Joe Galea — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:47:42 +0000

Daphne, you had some strange bedfellows this time round! Thankfully they did not claim that ‘il-Le rebah’.

[Daphne – I had no bedfellows because the Yes voters were not a ‘camp’. Divorce legislation is normal. It is those who opposed it who held the odd view, and so were a ‘camp’.]

By: kev

kev — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:29:06 +0000

“He couldn’t bring himself to say that they stayed home because they wanted to vote No but didn’t want to vote against Dear Joseph.”

So you do agree with what Saviour Balzan said, namely that Joseph Muscat’s influence in keeping the religious Labour vote home was highly instrumental towards the Yes victory.

There are many ways to argue this, of course. Yours is a one-sided, cheesed argument.

[Daphne – Marelli santa, Kevin. If I had been a teacher I would have been in real trouble for bawling at the thick kids. Joseph Muscat did not use his influence to get Labour voters to stay home. He used his influence to get them to vote Yes. If they stayed home, then he failed in his aim. Saviour Balzan thinks out his arse, always has and always will. Now that he has got his hands on a newspaper thanks to the Gianpula money put in by Roger de Giorgio, he can give his arse-thinking a much wider audience.]

By: fran

fran — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:51:07 +0000

D attard will never get it because he doesn’t have the same sense of humour as us.

By: D. Attard

D. Attard — Tue, 31 May 2011 00:30:25 +0000

Drop the personal insults, Daphne, I can’t concentrate on what you’re saying (are you actually saying something meaningful?) …

[Daphne – A personal insult, sweetheart, would be mocking somebody for having a bent leg. If a wouldbe prime minister puts on brown foundation and uses dark hair volumiser at an important press conference, then he’s just asking for criticism of his SENSE OF JUDGEMENT.]

By: Sonia

Sonia — Mon, 30 May 2011 21:44:23 +0000

“Muscat’s make-up artist – I suspect it’s Michelle because the foundation is the same colour she likes to wear – went for the ‘stop at the chin’ look that all make-up guides for girls warn against.”

Which chin did it stop at? Last time I looked, there were at least two.

By: GCHARLES

GCHARLES — Mon, 30 May 2011 21:33:37 +0000

le ma dahlitc politica fir raba distrett il marsa u rahal gdid membri tal partit laburista u canvasers zaru id djar biex nivotaw iva b’sfiducja ghal gonzi u naghmlu bhal joseph

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Mon, 30 May 2011 20:40:19 +0000

Joseph Muscat would like us to forget that, before the EU referendum, Labour used to scare voters that if Malta joined the EU we would have to introduce divorce. It would be interesting to find out if there was a Made in Brussels programme about divorce.