Comments on: Time for the Nationalists to remember how they get elected

By: K Debono

K Debono — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:29:16 +0000

I don’t think anyone should get personal. Everyone who is associated with politics of any kind knows the commitment it requires of him and his family. I believe all of the officials work hard to reach the common objective.

By: John Caruana

John Caruana — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:08:31 +0000

Good one, Gerald. Those who know him know that he goes with the flow. And he had done nothing in comparison to his predecessor’s team – Gordon Pisani and Jean Pierre Debono. The latter two on the contrary are two assets who work really hard.

By: Gerald Fenech

Gerald Fenech — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:46:14 +0000

A bit rich coming from Frank Psaila who is far from liberal.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:59:08 +0000

In reply to Michael Gatt.

No I can’t leave it out, because it makes a world of difference to a person’s abilities.

Those born with a ruddy big silver spoon in their mouth can reach the top even if they’re complete morons. And while “there’s nothing wrong”, as in “morally wrong”, I violently hate the well-connected, because I’m jealous, so it colours my judgement.

By: john

john — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:02:10 +0000

Rather than describing it as “a good piece” I felt that there were some highly irritating passages that would have been best left unpublished.

“many social liberal PN voters” voted yes “despite the fact that Labour leader Joseph Muscat was vociferously in favour of divorce legislation.” What a mindset – characteristic, no doubt of most of these party officials. ‘Despite the fact’ – how does this man’s brain work? Doesn’t he know that these voters voted yes IRRESPECTIVE of whatever Joey the goof’s position is. ‘Despite’ doesn’t come into it.

“Dr Gonzi – – made it clear that – – everyone was free to vote according to his/her conscience”. Oh thank you very much Dr Gonzi, I grovel before you in gratitude. If you hadn’t given me permission to do this I would have certainly obeyed the party executive’s position and voted no.

“Perhaps it is still early days to decide whether the party did the right thing – – – -” Can’t you get it into your thick numskull that the party screwed up bigtime.

“The party needs to forcefully put forward its social liberal agenda – – – – ” You mean like the PM is being forceful about committing himself and his cabinet to a social liberal vote on divorce in parliament? (hardly social liberal of course – just normal practice in normal countries). You mean like the PM is being forceful about removing the anti-divorce clause? ‘Not now – perhaps we’ll see later.’ Pathetic.

I’ll leave the other nits unpicked.

By: Michael Gatt

Michael Gatt — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:35:27 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

He’s good … but can you leave out the “who started out with no connections” bit?

There’s nothing wrong in using your connections (especially in Malta). But it would be wrong to say that you didn’t use them.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:40:57 +0000

I’m often accused of being dismissive of my fellow countrymen with top jobs, but I could write a hagiography of Frank. He’s that good. And he’s one of the few who started out with no connections at all.