Comments on: The Malta Labour Party – more in common with Chairman Mao than Nick Clegg https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 28 May 2011 20:26:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/#comment-82870 Sat, 28 May 2011 20:26:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11559#comment-82870 In reply to Robert Galea.

U f’dan is-seklu rega’ wasal alla?

]]> By: Kenneth Cassar https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/#comment-82869 Sat, 28 May 2011 10:25:26 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11559#comment-82869 In reply to Robert Galea.

[Robert Galea – Infakkrek, li is-seklu li ghadda kien fortement sekulari u bla alla].

F’liema dinja kont qed tghix is-seklu li ghadda?

]]> By: Robert Galea https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/#comment-82868 Thu, 26 May 2011 18:46:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11559#comment-82868 Ifimni ir-religjon reghet gejja moda. Allura kif tghid li jekk tkun Roman Catholic int xi haga tas-seklu li ghadda Infakkrek, li is-seklu li ghadda kien fortement sekulari u bla alla. Rega hemm revival tar-religjon.

]]> By: Steve Forster https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/#comment-82867 Thu, 26 May 2011 16:37:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11559#comment-82867 In reply to Reuben Scicluna.

I got back from Lagos today….

]]> By: Neil Dent https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/#comment-82866 Thu, 26 May 2011 15:34:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11559#comment-82866 In reply to Neil Dent.

Precisely, Daphne. There are too many people who think that the very idea of divorce is a new thing, and a totally Maltese phenomenon (invented by Lou Bondi, I was told last night!).

A Grech: Vote no, vote yes, don’t bother to vote at all – but never along these lines of reasoning. That would be an injustice to nobody but yourself.

]]> By: Neil Dent https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/#comment-82865 Thu, 26 May 2011 15:23:22 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11559#comment-82865 In reply to mark.

Mark – you’ll vote no on Saturday because that’s what you think and believe. Fine – that is your absolute right and prerogative, particularly if that is in fact based your own considered opinion.

What I mean is, the rest of your comment seems to indicate that you may have been influenced against voting Yes by the performance of some of those heading the IVA campaign. It’s as if you’re scoring them on their personal credibility and ability of persuasion.

Rather than being swayed by any poor behaviour from those on either side of the IVA/LE fence, doesn’t it seem more logical to rely on our own common sense, and what goes on in the much bigger picture that is the world around us? It’s all readily available to us 24/7.

Depending on the individual, that could still result in either an IVA or a LE in the voting booth, but at least it would be a vote based on knowledge and integrity rather than on a bunch of irate local politicians on a TV debate, bulletin or chat show.

]]> By: D Sullivan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/#comment-82864 Thu, 26 May 2011 09:33:14 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11559#comment-82864 ‘Successful people (and this doesn’t only mean money, though that’s how Labour supporters define success) are not successful because they are PN supporters. They are PN supporters because they are successful: the same qualities that make them successful (the ability to reason clearly, sound judgement and good decision-making skills) are the very same ones that make it screamingly obvious to them that they should choose the Nationalists over Labour. Labour has long been a magnet for losers, even losers with money – bitter people, nasty people, revenge-seeking people. Voting Labour in Malta is the legal equivalent of going nuts with a machinegun in a crowded mall – the motivation is the same. People feel screwed, they vote Labour. It’s the Ugly Party, full of ugly people (and I don’t mean physical appearance)’. —–

Spot on! Could anyone else have put it better? Prosit.

]]> By: dudu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/#comment-82863 Thu, 26 May 2011 09:29:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11559#comment-82863 http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/blogs/caroline-muscat/an-open-letter-to-joyce-cassar-and-anna-vella

An article worth noting!

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/#comment-82862 Thu, 26 May 2011 08:50:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11559#comment-82862 In reply to Joe Micallef.

Himself.

]]> By: A Grech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/05/the-malta-labour-party-more-in-common-with-chairman-mao-than-nick-clegg/#comment-82861 Thu, 26 May 2011 07:15:26 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11559#comment-82861 In reply to Neil Dent.

You got me wrong, I do need need any ovations, standing or otherwise. I just don’t want to be sitting on the same side of the fence as those three. My gut feeling, flawed as it may be, tells me that if those three are supporting then there must be something not quite right with it.

[Daphne – That’s because you are thinking in isolationist terms: Malta in a bubble. It is not “those three” who are in favour of divorce legislation, but the entire world. Also, I could take offence at your comment. So is there something wrong with it because I support it too?]

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