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Maltatoday.com.mt, today:
THEY TRIED TO MAKE ME A SCAPEGOAT – Jason Micallef
By Julia Farrugia
“They tried to make me a scapegoat,” Jason Micallef said, recalling the 2008 general election loss. “It’s past now. But I believe that there were Labourites who believed this criticism.”
Former Labour Party General Secretary discusses his past within the Labour Party as a scapegoat for the 2008 electoral loss, and his upcoming candidature in the general election.
In his interview in two years, former Labour Party general secretary Jason Micallef tells weekly newspaper Illum how his resignation took place against his will. “But I understood that it was in the interest for the party that I move along a different path.”
Asked whether the decision pained him, Micallef said the end of his duties as general secretary brought with it considerable disappointment to him, his loved ones, and friends that helped him get where he did.
Micallef also spoke of the aftermath of the loss of the 2008 general election, and how it affected him personally. “I was an orphan of the loss. They tried to make me a scapegoat,” he said. “It’s past now. But I believe that there were Labourites who believed this criticism.”
Micallef also confirmed that he aims to contest the upcoming general election, adding that he plans to contest on the 11th district, that which comprises Mosta, Mdina, Attard, and Balzan.
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If he claims that his party tried to make him a scapegoat, why contest the upcoming general election with the same party?
I give up trying to understand, day after day, how some people think.
Some people really enjoy being whipped. No more no less.
[Daphne – Please. I think we can all do with fewer tantalising revelations.]
Nice.
Let’s just thank our lucky stars that he and Ronnie didn’t break into Joseph’s office and circulate dirty pictures of Joseph having sex with Michelle’s extensive teddy-bear collection. Would we ever have recovered?
You never know. Maybe such pics do exist. It could be why Joseph is covering up Cyrus’s scandal as “private and confidential.”
Micallef plans to contest the 11th. district. Is he deciding on his own or is the PL already discussing its candidates?
We were told that a high ranking member of the PN administration asked Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando to contest the 10th district (or so he says). And Jason? It does matter who’s asking who and which district is to be contested by whom.
Ajma, Mosta – mela ghal ma’ Anglu Farrugia! Let’s sit back and watch the fur fly.
We can’t criticize Joseph Muscat on the only thing he done right so far – brushing no-brainers like Jason Micallef aside.
He knows rightly that with Jason and co. the party would not move an inch forward, as they were as useful as tits on a bull.
Now, what Mr. Muscat needs is to take a two-year holiday, stop asking for resignations, stop making storms out of tea-cups, and accept Dr. Gonzi’s offer to govern the country.
I’d say both parties are discussing their candidates already, so I hope they make the right choice and take the opportunity to get rid of some bad apples.
Christian, do you honestly believe that it was Joseph’s decision to remove Jason as Secretary General of the then MLP? Think again.
With Jason the party may not have moved an inch forward, but with Joseph it seems to have moved two inches backwards.
Joseph, like his predecessor, cannot keep his mouth shut because the moment he does, some nincompoop close to him will spew some new confounded controversy which will sink the PL deeper.
Accept Dr. Gonzi’s offer to govern the country? Which planet are you on?
If the ‘bad apples’, as you describe them, have any active grey matter, they will remove themselves before their party kicks their rear end.
As for Dr. Gonzi’s offer…can he pull the rope ’round his neck (and the party’s) any tighter?
The PL will not win the next general election, simply because they don’t have to – the PN lost it already.
And yes, it was Dr. Muscat’s decision to remove certain people from their posts, because other members (with some brains) could not work with them.
Can you imagine yourself working with Manuel Cuschieri, Jason Micallef and company?
Who exactly are “they”?
Party leaders and executives..although both parties might need to review the leadership teams
Each time Joseph Muscat opens his mouth he continues to convince me and others what a lousy PM he would make if, God forbid, his party wins the next general elections. Just imagining it makes me cringe.
‘PROSet JAson keep IT up i AM righT beHind you!!!!’
Ouch. Anzi ‘right behind you’ not ‘right in front of you’.
In the parlance I’ve learned from exposure to Manu Maltes epics, Jason wouldn’t be what you’d call a ‘top’ – or have I got the word wrong? – so ‘right behind you’ would be about right.
I am officially deep in depression. Thanks, Jason.
I’m told kiwis do the trick.
Remember, you have to remove their hair before you swallow them.
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No wonder they’re worried. TYOM ranks at 1022, whilst Maltastar ranks at 97.
Anybody with brains who followed the post-election Xarabank would have immediately come to the conclusion that Jason was a general without a plan and without maps.
His strategy seems to have been we’re going to win by default, so his plan of action was to put on a charm offensive and perfect a gleaming smile…
[Daphne – Please don’t forget the t-i-g-h-t white trousers.]
He had no idea of the numbers. He was floundering and out of his depth.
Hey Daphne,
Do you think Joseph Muscat would make him Minister of Home Economics?
My, my, at this rate they’d be accusing us of homophobia had he been gay.
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If he’s not fit to be secretary-general, then how is he fit to be an MP?
God help us.
Daphne,
Qed tara fl-ahhar, ghandek mohhok mistrieh li ser ikolllok stilla (jew iktar min hekk, pjaneta) lil min ser tivvota No. 1, ghallinqas ma tahlix il-vot.
God save us. Can the Labour Party not produce one decent candidate? But as you said – the rot starts at the top, and in this case the the stupidity starts at the top too.