Joseph Muscat calls on Consuelo at home at 10pm (with his wife, I hasten to add)
Il-lallu, Mich, mistiednin ghand Consuelo, ta! We've arrived!
On Thursday night at around 10pm, the Leader of the Opposition and Mrs Joseph Muscat were seen entering the Siggiewi home of Nationalist Party candidate Robert Musumeci and his mistress Magistrate Consuelo Herrera, sister of Labour MP and soon-to-be minister of justice Jose Herrera.
Perhaps they were there for a teddy-bears picnic. But I don’t think so.
The ramifications of this visit are several, but no doubt some clever-clogs or 20 will pop by to tell me that it is irrelevant and why can’t the Leader of the Opposition visit Consuelo Herrera if he wants to, and why don’t I mind my own business and stop telling people who was and wasn’t a porn star blah blah blah.
But to those who can think straight, some questions will occur.
Why did the leader of the Labour Party pay a social visit to a Nationalist Party candidate in his home at night, and why did the Nationalist Party candidate invite him?
Why did the magistrate issue a social invitation to a political leader and future prime minister and receive him at her home at night?
Why did the Labour leader accept an invitation to visit the magistrate at her home when it is he who will ultimately decide whether she is made a judge after 2013 and then sit in the European Court of Human Rights – after the former chief justice De Gaetano, who stripped her of her libel suit hearings precisely because she consorts with politicians and newspapermen?
Were Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Carmen Camilleri Ciantar there already when the Muscats arrived?
No way on earth am I going to vote anything other than PN in the next general election. Better a prime minister who votes against divorce than a prime minister who plots with a tramp.
Let’s hope that the very minute parliament is dissolved, the party bosses – with relish – strip Pullicino Orlando of his ticket and send him scooting over to Labour where he belongs, with his keychain Musumeci (future head of the MEPA), there to join those absolutely ghastly Herreras.
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I am shocked. She clearly doesn’t understand her role as an impartial magistrate.
Not too long ago the Chief Justice gave an interview to The Sunday Times, in which he was very clear that members of the judiciary should steer clear of situations like this.
Obviously, she could not care less.
Joseph Muscat also knows better but he couldn’t care less about the significance and importance of the impartiality of the judiciary, either.
Let’s hope the MLP doesn’t get in in 2013.
Nothing is scandalous for thick-skinned people. Consuelo and Jose have quite a debt to Labour for the positions they hold.
Let’s not forget Musumeci.
Last week, her brother was campaigning for a superior court judge for Gozo. Who knows?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/…/opinion/Superior-court-judge-for-Gozo.3...
Daphne, excuse me again for digressing from the topic but this article published on telegraph.co.uk is in my opinion a very sensible opinion article.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8655106/Im-starting-to-think-that-the-Left-might-actually-be-right.html
“…..but no doubt some clever-clogs or 20 will pop by to tell me that it is irrelevant”
IRRELEVANT? This is very serious!
It is long well known….that a country elects the government it deserves. So be it, if after next election, we deserve such kind of people.
Very well put: “Better a prime minister who votes against divorce than a prime minister who plots with a tramp”.
Unfortunately it can happen, that because of two issues we might lose a government that steered us steadily during during terrible financial times.
Who gives a shit you sad bitch? You really need to get out there and get a life instead of sitting in some dark corner writing crap. At the end of the day the only people who are interested in what you write are your little group of fans who are every bit as sad as you. If you want something to dedicate your life to why don’t you take a look in the mirror sometime if you have any at home which are not broken. You will see something that needs a lot of work to bring it back to normality.
[Daphne – James Tyrrell, I’ve told you this before and I think I should repeat it: you really do have a serious problem and would do well to see a psychiatrist. I am not being fatuous or insulting. This is genuine advice. It is not normal for a non-Maltese man in Northern Ireland to obsess about the minutiae of life and politics in Malta, and most especially with a single columnist on the island who brings out your worst sentiments about women and your most deep-seated fears and resentments. ]
It would seem that James Tyrell himself is one of the “sad fans” deeply interested in what Daphne writes.
Beowolf, it is of interest to me when our future PM is in cahoots with people of ill repute.
At least you have the sense to recognice the fact that he is the future PM.
[Daphne – You are confusing the ability to recognise a problem with approval of that problem. I have ‘the sense’ to see that Muscat will be prime minister post 2013, but I also have ‘the sense’ not to help make it happen. Ring that psychiatrist now, please. You are British and live in Northern Ireland. Your interest in the fate of Joseph Muscat is very unhealthy.]
“At the end of the day the only people who are interested in what you write are your little group of fans who are every bit as sad as you.”
The implication that Joseph Carmel Chetcuti and Aussie, who wrote in this week all the way from downunder, are sad people is just not fair.
I have a serious problem!!! I’m not the one who’s in court every bloody week am I?
[Daphne – Nor am I, James Tyrrell. The people mentioned in this post, and other frequent guests of Magistrate Herrera, have lists of cases far longer than mine. She heard many of them before the Chief Justice (not this one) pulled them away. Also, we are not talking about court cases here but about your psychiatric problems.]
Beowulf: Are you bored because the marching season is over and as a former member of the unlamented RUC have nothing better to do than spout inanities?
The funny thing is you are so far gone that you actually believe your own crap. I mean, you accusing me of having psychiatric problems! Hilarious!!!
[Daphne – Pack it in, Tyrrell. You’re sick. Stalker sick.]
Stop swearing.
“Who gives a shit?” Apparently YOU do, James Tyrrell.
I’m no psychiatrist either, but you seem to be suffering from some kind of condition which requires several sessions of treatment.
Daphne must be really patient to put up with you. I would just press Delete.
Incidentally, I would love to see a photo of this James Tyrell. Would anyone care to oblige? He seems unhealthily obsessed with image, and with no sound reason whatsoever.
Grezz,
http://www.google.com.mt/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Irish_Goat.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Irish_Goat.jpg&h=1600&w=1200&sz=691&tbnid=VJplduj1vmZmfM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=77&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dirish%2Bgoat%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=irish+goat&docid=5HmhqUYYxJLGWM&sa=X&ei=aTQsTqy1N83LsgaFro3nCw&ved=0CCoQ9QEwAg
Ciccio, I think you may have posted a link of his mate by mistake!
Is this a cunning plan or PN confirming that it’s gone completely cuckoo?
PN asks JPO to contest on the 10th district
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110723/local/pn-asks-jpo-to-contest-on-the-10th-district.376931
This is a polite way of saying bye-bye to JPO.
“Let’s hope that the very minute parliament is dissolved, the party bosses – with relish – strip Pullicino Orlando of his ticket and send him scooting over to Labour where he belongs,”
Apparently the self destruction continues ..
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110723/local/pn-asks-jpo-to-contest-on-the-10th-district.376931
If he wants to be an electoral candidate he will be given the opportunity by his party. Not giving him the opportunity will be suicidal. It would be a message against what he represents. If PN voters want him, so be it.
[Daphne – Qbadta minn sieqa, John, ergajt. Precisely, it would be a message against what he represents: disloyalty, personality problems, extreme egocentricity, consorting with the enemy, treachery, and the worst sort of narcissism (a medical term, not a blind accusation). NOT divorce.]
You misunderstood me, I’m not his fan. I did not mention divorce.
If people vote for him they know precisely what they’ll get. With your list may I add dentist and property speculator.
But PN cannot and should not dump him.
[Daphne – Yes, the party should dump him precisely to make the point that low standards, cracked behaviour and treachery are beyond the pale. This is taken for granted in more sophisticated societies, but in Malta even the basics must be spelled out, starting from the fact that when you are at a senior level you should use a knife and fork properly, through to getting fired spectacularly and publicly when you plot against your party leader and consort with the enemy to erode confidence from within.]
This same reasoning will apply to Mugliette, Adrian Vassallo and Ms Coleiro Preca.
[Daphne – You miss the point. Mugliette and Pullicino Orlando are in one category: a category that should be fired at once for gross treachery, malice, consorting with the enemy and conspiring to sink the ship, were it not for the one-seat majority. Adrian Vassallo and Marie Louise Coleiro Preca are in another sort of category altogether: MPs who voted against the leader’s wishes but as the party permitted them to do (free vote, remember). Firing them would be an antidemocratic act but exactly what we would expect of totalitarian Labour.]
Bilhaqq, QbadtHa u SieqHa għandhom l-akka.
[Daphne – Yes, I always miss that.]
Mugliette and JPO are perceived as the ‘PN champions of divorce’. If they’re dumped by Gonzi, people or better still ONE TV and the elves would come out shouting that the PN is ridding itself of the ‘liberals’.
The other option is: let the electorate do the dumping by not voting for them”.
The PN (actually both parties) needs to give a good clean-up in its ranks. In the last election many people tried to vote for the new blood but got a lot of bad blood instead.
People vote for the party candidates presented to them assuming that they were vetted, and political parties want to win elections.
[Daphne – I know. One of my biggest arguments in the last general election was when I discovered that Robert Musumeci was asked to contest (I knew that he was carrying on a clandestine relationship with Consuelo Herrera while still living with his wife) and was told ‘We found out he is sleeping with her after we began promoting him in the list and now we can’t really remove him.’ I was furious, and let rip with a barrage of how wrong it was for the party to sell the electorate a candidate under the false pretence that he is a decent family man and a loyal party man, when he is a cheat and in with the Labour Party. Imagine if he had been voted in, but fortunately enough people knew of his dalliances and word got round.]
On second thoughts, I don’t want a party like the PL is, burdened with people like cruise liner expert MEP Attard Montalto. I’m 100% sure that the MLP did not want him as a candidate and no one had the balls to kick him out, for fear of losing precious votes.
You are right about Ms Coleiro Preca and Adrian Vassallo , but we all know that there was no free vote, so they did not toe the party line.
[Daphne – There was a free vote. Whether it was a free vote a la Labour ‘you can vote any way you want as long as it’s the same way I do’ is another matter.]
I was a bit surprised that it only takes one high official of the party to ask a person to be a party candidate in an election.
[Daphne – The matter is discussed internally, but the offer comes from the party leader or secretary-general. You can’t have random people running around making offers to other random people.]
If it were for me I would have a committee of independent people who will be given permission by the prospective candidates to pry into their private lives, and then the prospective candidate is grilled in front of the party delegates, who will in turn approve or disapprove his candidacy with the said party.
There would be a notice to the public if there is any objection, a system like the “marriage banns”. We have seen this sort of thing when John Dalli was made EU Commissioner.
Our system is mysterious and depends a lot on the information divulged in the media.
Just look how Dr Deborah Schembri was taken on board by Joseph (read the party), and look how Ms Coleiro Preca is being sidelined.
If I were JPO I would not face the electorate again, leaving the political scene after being elected on two districts is glorious; losing the parliamentary seat after so many years would be a humiliating defeat.
Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius
Qabel ma l-Allat joqtlu ‘l-min ma’ jahmlux, l-ewwel igenninhom.
Judging by the genre of films (Beowulf) this sad bastard watches a psychiatrist is useless.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110723/local/pn-asks-jpo-to-contest-on-the-10th-district.376931
Muscat is confident of a win in 2013 because:
1. he understands Maltese stupidity;
2. he brought into his fold as many people as possible plus those Mintoff diehards;
3. he brought back the old guard i.e. Sceberras Trigona, Maria Camilleri, Debono Grech and all the rubbish who followed these people – forgot Joe Grima by the way, who had said in Parliament that he was really sorry that The Times building was not burnt to the ground.
I might have missed a few others but there it is. Election time will be Arriva (and the few hiccups) reminders. No one will dare speak about the comparitively good time Malta has had under the PN leadership.
I do not think that the Xarabank croud even know of the Greek, Portuguese and American financial crises. That’s what gets Labour into government.
Muscat is confident of a win in 2013 because GonziPN is handing it over to him on a plate.
Call me old-fashioned, but isn’t 10pm rather an odd hour to be calling on someone? Even if the people involved aren’t exactly who they are, I’d suspect something fishy going on. Given who they are, it becomes a matter of national interest.
It never fails to amaze and amuse me how you seem to have eyes and ears everywhere. Or is it that people prefer to let you have the information because you do something with it whereas other so-called journalists cannot be trusted to give it the light of day?
Joseph Muscat is well known for his lack of punctuality; remember the King of Spain episode and the TV debate with Lawrence Gonzi.
She actually is a witch, and she has a crystal ball! I couldn’t help it, Daphne!
The Maltese saying goes: “L-ajru ghandu ghajnu, w il-hajt ghandu widintu”.
No one can even ‘fart’ on this little rock, and to make things worse we go on the social networks like FB and Twitter.
Maybe Robert Musumeci is next to follow Cyrus Engerer. Nothing less than poaching, although in both cases they are of no particular importance.
This is the type of prime minister which we will get if we decide not to vote in 2013 or vote Labour instead. Then it will be useless to go to Ix-Xatt tas-Sliema, with The Times in our hand, and moan. Then, meta tkun fatta fatta l-istorja.
Daphne, I think it would be healthy exercise to plan a ‘who will be who after March 2013’. It seems most people think we’ll only change the Prime Minister and not everything else.
May I join in the fun?
PM – Joseph Muscat
Foreign Minister – George Vella
Justice Minister – José Herrera
Deputy PM and Minister for Home Affairs – Anglu Farrugia
Finance Minister – Charles Mangion
Chief Justice – Consuelo Scerri Herrera
Perm. Rep. to EU – Alex Sciberras Trigona
High Commissioner to UK – Norman Hamilton
President – Edwin Grech
Health Minister – Anthony Zammit
Social Affairs Minister – Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
MEPA CEO – Robert Musumeci
MCST CEO – Nicholas Sammut (reconfirmed)
PBS chairman – Joe Grima
Maltasong Chairman – Ray Azzopardi
Head of PM’s secretariat – Julia Farrugia
Chief Advisor to Government on some made-up subject – Alfred Sant – wouldn’t rule out Ambassador to France if he decides not to stand for election
Chief Advisor to Government on a second made-up subject – Godfrey Grima
Central Bank Governor – Edward Scic—oh sorry, er, probably Alfred Mifsud
H.P. Baxxter, I believe that some time ago you wrote that Manu Maltes would be the next Chairman of the Kummissjoni Nazzjonali Persuni b’Dizabilita`.
OK. How about a go at the Shadow Cabinet?
You forgot one.
Minister of the Arts: Manu Maltes.
Baxxter, more for your list:
John Dalli – MFSA Chairman
Saviour Balzan – government head of communications
Astrid Vella – Chairman of the MEPA
Julia Farrugia or Miriam Dalli or Simone formerly Cini
High Commissioner to the UK? Why? To meet the relatives of the sailor who deprived him of his mother?
Looks like a ‘Top Of The Pops’ list but plausible .
We need someone to head Malta Enterprise. Some bright young Labour spark.
And Ciccio, we’ve already chosen a chairman for MEPA. Astrid Vella will be Heritage Malta CEO.
We need three prominent posts for Karmenu Vella, Evarist Bartolo and Leo Brincat.
Finance and Foreign Affairs are already taken. Communications and IT for Karmenu Vella, perhaps?
Baxxter,
MEPA has a Chairman and a CEO. Did you mean to put Robert Musumeci as Chairman?
Here is the job for the ones you mentioned.
1. Chairman of Enemalta – Leo Brincat, maybe. Isn’t he into carbon dioxide and all that sort of gas and hot air?
2. Chairman of Airmalta – Karmenu Vella, probably. Is he not involved in a hospitality group, and has he not been involved in cargo (remember the Tunny Net)?
3. Auditor General, or Ombudsman. Evarist Bartolo, surely. He is now an expert at investigating all sorts allegations, including the most baseless ones.
As for Astrid, I would propose her as Spokesperson for the PM. With her voice and a megaphone, she can speak directly to all of Malta and Gozo from one of the windows on the second floor of Castille.
Yeah well, I wasn’t being funny or sarcastic. That’s a “68% probability” forecast. Contingency planning, as it were.
Therefore:
MEPA CEO – Musumeci
Heritage Malta CEO – Astrid Vella
As for the others, they can’t be CEOs if they’re in parliament. But you’ve given me some useful hints:
Environment Minister – Leo Brincat
Tourism Minister (tourism will be upgraded to a ministry) – Karmenu Vella
Education, Employment and ICT-techie fluff Minister – Evarist Bartolo
First measures enacted by new PM:
Withdrawal of Malta from European Defence Agency and EU Military Committee
Withdrawal of Malta from PfP
MCAST turned into a University (MUAST)
Vision 2015 re-branded as Vision 2025, with the addition of an “eight pillar”: the “social dimension”
Establishmen of a Kummissjoni Nazzjonali Ugwaljanza ghall-Omosesswali; Engerer offered chairmanship, declines; given to Gabi Calleja
That completes the déjà vu and closes the Seventh Gate of Hell. Then let’s see us moaning about bus routes and theatre roofs and other trivialities.
Let’s do a Casablanca and agree to meet a couple of weeks after the 2013 elections, Ciccio. The bar at the Phoenicia. If my predictions turn out right, you’ll buy me a Hendrick’s G&T. If I lose the bet, drinks are on me.
Baxxter, I thought you were going to start about those first 100 days after Joseph Muscat addresses the nation from a new balcony at the mile end, proclaiming “Inhobbkom, min hawn ghal-Kastilja.”
I see you have missed the most important position of them all!
It’s the Chairman of the Special Committee for the Preparation of Malta for the EU Presidency 2017.
This will be hand-picked by the new Prime Minister Doktorrr Joseph Muscat with a lot of suspense. Have to think about that one.
You know, my dear Ciccio, there are some BazuzlEOs who’ll keep their position no matter who’s in government. And that’s the worst of it. I don’t suppose any of the various Profses for Airy-Fairy Departments or Chairs of Malta Institutes for Uber-Futuristic Dreams will be removed from their posts. I mean the political leadership will change but the eminences grises won’t. Alas, and so the darkness spreads.
That’ll be one bitter Pink Gin, Ciccio. And it won’t be the Angostura. (I have mine ‘in’). Bhal dak li qallu, se jinzilli valienu.
Has he visited the Mugliettes yet?
Do you ever get comments about the veracity of your information?
Do you trust 100% the source of the sighting of Muscat?
If it wasn’t true, would you remove the item?
If you don’t get denials all round then do you assume it must be accurate info?
[Daphne – I know it is accurate but I can’t tell you how. I wouldn’t have published it otherwise. Now I expect reporters to ring him and ask what he was doing there, but of course, they won’t. What’s wrong with the Labour leader visiting a controversial magistrate and a PN candidate at night? Nothing, of course. Now if Daphne were seen having a cup of coffee with Gordon Pisani that would be a different matter. That’s news: a journalist meeting the government’s head of communications. Can’t have that, can we. Shocking. Must report it all over the internet at once.]
The U.K. has just realised how unhealthy it is to have the news industry in cahoots with the political class. Lucky for them a lesser (by volume) newspaper blew the lid off the Murdoch empire’s antics.
Here journalists who have a numbed intelligence make it to party leader and others have happily become leashed scribes.
So Joseph visits Consuelo and our ‘ewropew’ Wenzu Gonzi visits il-Madonna ta Borg In-Nadur to pray for deliverance from the evil of divorce! That would make a good headline, don’t you think!
[Daphne – Yes, if it happens. But it hasn’t. On the other hand, Joseph Muscat did visit Consuelo Herrera at night.]
Since I do not think it was a private meeting of Nisa ta’ Success, I take it as a serious Constitutional incident since it involves the Leader of the Opposition and the judiciary, and the Leader of the Opposition should be asked to explain officially and publicly.
Where are the Super One journalists, the ones who stick the microphone in the prime minister’s face? And more to the point, where are the Net journalists?
We know there is a Code of Ethics for the judiciary, but we know that even if it is broken, the removal of a member of the judiciary requires the vote of two thirds of House of Representatives – which is unlikely.
I think there should be a code of ethics for MPs, and the relationship with the judiciary should be covered there as well.
It should prohibit MPs who are ministers of state or party leaders from having social relationships with members of the judiciary.
What on Earth is Joseph Muscat doing with that low-life creature Robert Musumeci? Wherever Robert goes trouble follows.
[Daphne – I find it significant that you think there is just one low-life creature in this equation: the one with the PN ticket.]
But then I suppose Robert is trying to get the best of both worlds (he does that in his private life). While he basks in daytime under the Nationalist ticket he furtively ingratiates himself at nightime with Labour (just in case they win the next election).
[Daphne – He doesn’t ingratiate himself with Labour, Farrugia. He has sex with Labour and has set up home with Labour.]
An unprincipled person should never be trusted.
[Daphne – Quite right. My point precisely: an unprincipled person should never be permitted to sit in judgement over others.]
I do not judge people on the political party ticket they embrace but by their deeds and behaviour. Judging people merely on their political party adherence sounds a bit fanatical to me. One cannot be fanatic and democratic at the same time.
[Daphne – You are wrong to exclude political sentiments from the list of factors by which to assess people. Political choices tell you a great deal about a person – and sometimes, they tell you almost all you need to know.]
I was wondering whether Muscat visited the magistrate with his wife in tow so that he would not be tarnished with the same brush as those policemen and certain others who include, after all, Robert Musumeci himself.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/03/10/magistrate-mistakes-identity-of-police-vice-squad-head/
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/03/09/its-official-magistrate-herrera-perjured-herself-yesterday/
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/03/09/michael-cassar/
But THIS one really sums up what I mean: http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/03/08/what-odd-standards-some-people-have/
And to think that people like Tyrell keep on sticking up for people like that! It makes you wonder what they’re worried about!
RMEMBER – it is the likes of JPO who are keeping the party in government!
A good way to prepare for 2013.
I think that no matter what anyone does, you will always vote PN….. I thought that was crystal clear years ago!
[Daphne – Do you remember that biblical parable about the burying of talents? I believe that when you’re born with a brain, it’s criminal not to use it. It is precisely because of what Labour does, or rather, doesn’t, that I won’t be voting Labour any time soon. Over my dead body will I vote to give power to the very same individuals who I see right there and recognise from the Godawful 1970s and 1980s. And that’s quite apart from the frightening stupidity, terrible incompetence and lack of policies. Come on, Joseph – surprise us with a policy. Also, Adrian, I hear that you are being touted as prospective Labour candidate, in which case I strongly recommend that you edit your Facebook pictures to remove the ‘bear with a waxed chest’ items, before you find them used to raise questions about your credibility.]
If my credibility is questioned simply because of a photo taken with my brother than I think than those persons who are raising the questions should have their credibility questioned… I disagree with you as regards those Godawful 70s and 80s in the sense that although I do believe that the labour party had many ‘rough’ individuals, let us not think for a while that the Nationalists were all saints in disguise. Let’s be realistic here.
[Daphne – Adrian, when a man comes out of the closet, it is absolutely unnecessary to leave his brain behind.]
I firmly believe that one can never compare ANY party to the same party 30 or 40 years before. I have my beliefs Daphne, but they go beyond belonging to or supporting any party. Working in Cospicua for so many years has made me realise that this government (which I myself voted for) is simply making life hell for the lower and middle class (financially).I don’t want to be personal Daphne, but unless you getdown from that pedestal and see what the man on the street is really feeling than it’s useless trying to understand me.
Wish you a good day.
[Daphne – I think I know rather more than you do about the subject, Adrian, because I don’t restrict myself to Cospicua where people have always voted Labour and will always do so come what may. Also, being a woman who talks to other women in a way that no male politician (or pharmacist) can ever gain confidence and access, I can tell you for fact that poverty does not cause social problems within households but is caused by them. When you talk to as many people as I do you might discover that the woman who puts up a false front by blaming the government for the cost of living is struggling with a profligate husband, gambling issues and a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit that eats into the daily food budget. There is no reason on earth why two adults in employment, even if one of them earns only the minimum wage, should not be able to run a household and support a family. The Eritrean man who drowned last week, and his wife, should be held up as examples of the right attitude to life, money and hard work. As for the middle-class suffering poverty, if that’s the same middle-class partying and posing all over Facebook, then maybe you and I don’t define middle class the same way. Or maybe you think that Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, Jesmond Mugliett and Vince Micallef are ‘upper class’.]
You seem to make two assumptions which in my opinion are incorrect.
The first is that I limit myself to people who live in Cospicua. I can assure you that is not the case.
The second assumption is that you are giving a general idea that the residents of Cospicua fit under the description above. I assure you that YES, there are people who fit into that description but let’s not generalise.
There are many households who would be considered as normal middle class who do not smoke two packs of fags a day and don’t gamble and yet struggle to make ends meet.
[Daphne – I and most of my friends with young families struggled to make ends meet, Adrian, and we didn’t blame the government or anyone else. We just accepted it as part of life when you’re raising a family and running a home or setting up a household.]
You also seem to be forgetting the old age pensioners who find it difficult to cope especially when they discover that the medicines which they are entitled to get from the health centres are out of stock – a very comman occurrence.
[Daphne- That is certainly a problem, yes.]
Daphne I see that we have very different views of what is really happening in our country. BUT I respect your views and hopefully you will respect mine. We live in a democracy and I am sure the people will ultimately decide what’s good for the country.
Have a nice day.
[Daphne – No, Adrian, we see the exact same things. It is our analysis of the situation which is different. I am glad you respect my views and that you understand we now live in a democracy at last, because Labour politicians who respect opposing views are a new phenomenon, which is why they have to tell us about it. ‘Have a nice day’ is in the league of ‘my dear’ and comes across as hostile rather than friendly. Also, it is the sort of thing people like Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando would say, so I would avoid it if I were you.]
I do believe that the PN was instrumental in bringing about democracy – and maybe that is why I voted PN all my life. BUT that does not make them or anybody in politics infallible.
I am sorry if you may have misunderstood my ‘have a nice day’ as hostile. Believe me I sincerely meant to wish you a good day. I am a very tolerant person and open to other people’s views. I hate attacking the politician but I believe in attacking his politics. Hopefully that would bring less hatred in this small island.
Well so i won’t end my comment in the usual way. Will take your advice. Thanks Daphne.
you only publish what is good for you – however i want to let you know that i have a ready made lemon squash if you would like to tast otherwise a lemon granita might be a good substitute :-
Woman with no principles – you should distinguish from what is wrong for the country and from your beliefs
[Daphne- The woman with no principles, Mr Spiteri, is the one in the post above.]