Joseph he send us email in English
A bright future lays ahead. Indeed.
Kurt the Communications Coconut has spammed several of my friends, family and acquaintances with an email message ghall-middle class bl-Ingliz.
The response was across-the-board titters while everyone got to work highlighting bits like ‘A bright future for Malta and Gozo lays ahead’ in fluorescent yellow.
Then they all forwarded them to me and I found my in-box jammed with the subject line A FIRST STAGE IN THE MODERNISATION OF OUR COUNTRY.
That’s right. That’s what the Coconut called it. Because you know, nothing happened between 1987 and now, we didn’t join the European Union, the Eurozone is irrelevant, and we’re all still sitting in our Spyder jeans, Red Devil jackets and Sanga shoes watching Normint Hemiltin on Xandir Malta in black and white fuzz, while stuffing ourselves with Desserta and gobon CeddaRRR from communist Poland.
Le, hej – qed nistennew il-Dear Joseph ha jiehu l-first stap ghall-modernisation of our country.
Maaa, xi stupidagni ta’ nies. Ta’ barra minn hawn.
Anyway, here it is. Warning: a Joseph Personal Message lays ahead. It’s a shame you can’t see the accompanying photograph, which is filed (the name shows up before you click ‘Download pics’ on the actual email) as jm-family. JM family? I opened it thinking I was going to be treated to a new amazing pic of Michelle referencing Jackie Onassis, with those appallingly named twins in their San Anton School uniforms.
But no – Joseph was there with another woman and her young son. So heaven knows what the PL picture editor was thinking. If they have one. And if s/he thinks.
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A FIRST STAGE IN THE MODERNISATION OF OUR COUNTRY
This week marks an important first stage in the modernisation of our country, with the introduction of new rights for married people.
It’s taken a long time to get here.
But, despite the conservative forces of the Lawrence Gonzi’s Nationalist Party, Maltese women and men now have a basic civil liberty enjoyed by almost everyone else on Earth.
I was proud to have contributed to the campaign for the introduction of divorce and I congratulate the others who worked so hard for this vital social reform.
The Nationalist Party and Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, have not yet woken up to the new reality and remain officially opposed to divorce.
Although a referendum in which the people made their position clear by an overwhelming majority, Prime Minister Gonzi ignored that and voted against new rights for married people.
Our focus as a political party remains to help and strengthening families. The right to divorce goes hand-in-hand with the responsibility to our children, and each other. An important part of this is improving the standard-of-living.
We need to remove the intolerable (PHEW – ONLY ONE ‘L’. THEY GOT IT AT LAST – Daphne) burdens that the government has imposed on families, while we give help to those who need it most. This is the kind of Malta we will build.
We want to hear from ALL people who want to see a more progressive Malta. It is a vital time in our history – and we want to hear from YOU.
Please send your views on how we can build a better country to: [email protected]
(WHY DOES FEEDBACK GO TO JOSEPHMUSCAT.COM, HIS PERSONAL ELECTIONEERING SITE, IF THIS IS A LABOUR PARTY MESSAGE? – Daphne)
A bright future for Malta and Gozo lays ahead. The Labour Party is developing policies for the years ahead; we believe that by pulling together, we can achieve more than we could by ourselves. Please join us today.
JOSEPH MUSCAT
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“It’s taken a long time to get here”
How romantic….and totally delusional. It didn’t take that long. It’s not like it was some up-hill-struggle (giggle).
What has taken us a long time is restoring order, improving democracy and getting Malta into the EU.
Plus, where we are now has been in spite of the PL and not thanks to it.
Sadly there are many who think saying that means you are brainwashed.
“It’s taken a long time to get here”
At least he didn’t blame that on Arriva.
“I was proud to have contributed to the campaign …”
Why ‘was’? Is he no longer proud?
“The Labour Party is developing policies for the years ahead”.
As opposed to what – for the past? The present?
Shame there is just no sight or sound of them. Not that it matters – thousands of morons will flock to vote for Dear Joseph with nothing more than blind faith to guide their pencil on the ballot paper.
A Maltese messiah is born.
“This week marks an important first stage in the modernisation of our country, with the introduction of new rights for married people. It’s taken a long time to get here.”
Should continue as follows:
Had it been for Joseph Muscat, it would have taken a bit longer.
That is, until he became Prime Minister, possibly in 2013, and then introduced a private member’s bill in Parliament.
Ritratt a la Kitchener jonqos.
Exactly. ” Your country needs you “.
Finger down throat.
The Labour coconutifications officer strikes again.
Oh what lays ahead of us – I can’t wait.
striked again. This is the Coconut we’re spoke about.
I seriously think that we’ve arrived at a stage where a politician’s credentials should be verified and made public.
I have yet to find online a single dissertation, research paper or some form of evidence that supports the qualifications and titles attributed to a politician’s name.
Nowadays it has become customary for politicians to use their credentials as some kind of intellectual sales pitch to gain political ground and empower themselves with status.
It has become an intrinsic part of their arsenal and so, in a time of rampant plagiarism and clearing houses for degrees, masters and doctorates, I think it’s only fair that we get to check what’s in the tin rather than just read the label.
I mean, how on earth can someone with a doctorate get to write or be associated with this kind gibberish? Can someone please help and join the dots?
I never opened mine, just bounced it back to them.
I got a flyer for a home visit from one Edward Zammit – Lewis (hyphen included)
‘Nibnu familja progressiva
Dr. Edward Zammit – Lewis ser ikun qed jaghmel iz-zjarat lill-familji fit-triq tieghek nhar….(date and time inserted into space provided, written in block letters with a ballpoint pen)..’
[Daphne – He hyphenates his surname to make it clear that Lewis is not his Christian name. You have to, in social situations where people call themselves Zammit David and Camilleri Anton, presumably because they think, because of the school roll-call, that this is how it should be.]
There are various good reasons why a surname may be hyphenated.
One of the reasons is to distinguish clearly between what is a first or (or ‘Christian’) name and what is the family name or surname.
In this case, for example, if Edward Zammit Lewis (without hyphen) were to have a book published, it would be catalogued by the British Library (indeed by anyone who is not familiar with local Maltese names) under Lewis (surname) Edward Zammit (first or Christian names). If the surname is not hyphenated they would have no way of knowing that Zammit is part of the surname. It would be like John Henry Newman to them – two Christian names and a surname.
Muscat Joseph
Naf il-ghala kitibha bl-Ingliz: biex il-Laburisti tradizzjonali ma jaqrawhiex.
Tajjeb li kieku tigi ippublikata bil-Malti fuq l-Orizzont jew il-Kulhadd jew it-Torca.
He’s got a nerve, talking about ignoring a referendum result.
Why didn’t you put “pulling together” in bold. Here in Brighton it practically means having a w@nk with complete strangers at the bushes after a drunk night out at a gay club.
This really made my day :) …. although thinking about it, I can’t imagine myself “pulling together” with Joseph Muscat and Kurt.
He asked for feedback so let us give it to him:
1. Buy a copy of “The New First Aid in English” by clicking on the following URL: http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-First-Aid-English/dp/0340882875
2. Read it, this is not a bookshelf filler to impress visitors
3. Read it a second time
4. Ask San Anton School if they accept mature students
5. If at all possible try to find skilled people to perform the bread and butter jobs of your political party.
6. To win the next election you have to stop preaching to the converted (i.e. idiots who voted for your predecessors in 1987) and adjust your message for a 2 to 3 digit IQ audience.
Tal Labour jghidu li ma nbidel xejn mil 1987.
Biss biss huma bidlu tlett leaders.
It’s so sad that he is going to be the next PM.
“We want to hear from ALL people who want to see a more progressive Malta”.
Ok, Joseph. “Hear” this. How do you reconcile progressive liberalism with the following:
“How can I be allowed to say that I am an atheist “u qisu ma gara xejn”” – Toni Abela on Super One Radio.
http://loubondi.blogspot.com/2011/10/scoop-toni-abela-your-liberal-and.html#more
I wonder which families he is referring to that most need the intolerable burdens.
This is a message to Joseph Muscat, as I appear to be one of the unlucky few not to have received this email.
1. I thought that progressive parties allow everyone to have their opinion – the fact that the law still passed is proof that the “Conservative Party” respects the opinion of the majority.
2. Invest in people qualified for the job if you want to succeed in making the sale – standard-of-living? the help and strengthening of families? hand-in-hand?
3. Divorce might have taken less time had it been introduced in 1997, failing that, why was the members bill not put forward by the “Progressive Party” in 2010?
4. The middle class tend to be more educated which normally means that decisions are based on facts and not prattle; we want to know what the policies are and not that you are working on them, that tends to be a given.
5. Last but not least, the only reason why we have civil liberties is because of, and not despite, the “Conservative Party”.
6. If you want to appeal to the middle class I suggest that you stop trying to recreate the past; it is still fresh in our minds.
A future minister who thinks that a bright future lays ahead…