Joseph Muscat: "Karmenu Vella is one of the best ministers of all time."
Speaking on Andrew Azzopardi’s show Ghandi x’ Nghid, on Radju Malta this morning, Labour leader Joseph Muscat said that Karmenu Vella “is one of the best ministers of all time” and that Leo Brincat is “a seasoned politician” (errrr, yes, but…).
He also said that unlike ‘Lawrence Gonzi’, he can’t complain that he has a limited pool of talent from which to appoint his cabinet.
That would be why he has to resort to a few choice dinosaurs from the 1970s, then. Karmenu Vella and Leo Brincat: the ghouls of Christmases past.
Pathetic.
Cabinet minister Guze Cassar (left), Karmenu Vella and Joe Debono Grech with Labour prime minister Dom Mintoff, at a mass meeting in the 1970s
Cabinet minister Karmenu Vella with Labour prime minister Dom Mintoff and friends
Labour cabinet ministers Karmenu Vella and Leo Brincat at a mass meeting in the 1990s
Cabinet minister Karmenu Vella and Labour prime minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici carried shoulder high by the crowd at a mass meeting in the 1980s
L to R: President Agatha Barbara, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and Labour cabinet ministers Lino Spiteri, Alex Sceberras Trigona, Philip Muscat, Karmenu Vella and Vincent Moran
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Note to Karmenu Vella: Your ventriloquist dummy trick isn’t fooling anyone. Now pull your hand out of Muscat’s backside and tell it to us straight.
He actually said Karmenu Vella was the best finance minister of all time – was he ever finance minister?
He certainly was the best ever non-finance minister.
Only as far as his personal finances were concerned.
What does Joey know, or care, about Maltese, or PL history for that matter ?
What nostalgia! Karmenu Vella, Tunny Net restaurant in Ghadira…trip to Scicily with hidden money to buy a bar of chocolate and a tube of tooth paste…what nostalgia… waiting for the Finance Minister (Ahleb Guz) anxiously to tell us whether tuna has been reduced by five mils…
Do you remember, Karmenu Vella? Or is loss of memory now creeping in?
It was not tuna but canned mackerel, reduced by one mill not five.
Pity he didn’t know he couldn’t berth his yacht at Ghadira.
He couldn’t berth his yacth at Ghadira but could release the merchandise.
Joseph Muscat was not even born then, so how can he say which ministers were good, better or best?
[Daphne – Qaltlu n-nanna, dik li kienet tiehdu l-meetings tas-Salvatur ta’ Malta.]
Budgie-smugglers, the lot of them.
Volumes could be written about good and not-so-good ministers – Sceberras Trigona with his secret agreement with North Korea, Lorry Sant and his underhand deals with property owners, Freddie Micallef with….. but let’s stop there.
Daphne
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111014/local/Britons-justified-in-insisting-police-arrest-alleged-aggressor.389113
Daphne, this story sounds familiar to you. You were also the victim of the St Julian’s police.
[Daphne – Not only me, certainly. That station is a total disgrace.]
The boys in blue certainly enjoyed a couple of drinks and a cigarette in a kazin just a few metres up the road a couple of weeks ago, and in uniform too.
[Daphne – Not the Kazin tal-Labour, I trust, because that would certainly explain a lot about that station. It’s the pits, a law unto itself.]
Just how many ‘hidden’ hands are pulling Joseph’s strings?
Who’s that guy between Victor Sultana and Censu Moran, just behind Miriam Spiteri Debono and Leo Brincat, in the third photo?
Is it Toni Abela?
My grandpa used to tell me: Peter if you want to know your future look into the past.
one talented skip…
Where Joey sees talent, Lawrence sees mediocrity.
This is perfectly understandable.
It is plain relativism.
Ms Caruana Galizia,
A small clarification that Dr Muscat was speaking during my radio show on Radju Malta (Ghandi x’ Nghid)…. hosted by the undersigned.
The full interview is available on my blog – http://andrewazzopardi.wordpress.com/ghandi-x-nghid-radio-show/
Esteemed regards,
Andrew
[Daphne – I have corrected it, Andrew. Thank you for writing in.]
Looks like both sides have banzai politicians.
Something I’ve wondered about is why on earth Dr Muscat wants to bring back these guys.
As a young politician himself wouldn’t he want to bring forward new and young politicians with him?
As in, bring new people to the front rather than bring back the oldies?
I wondered whether Dr Muscat is actually thinking tactically or whether he is suffering from a touch of nostalgia, harking back to the good old days, like those living in a republic who want to bring back a monarch.
That is why, I think, he wants to bring back those guys that he loved and worshiped so much as a child and have them in government again under his leadership as some sort of saviour and to attempt to bring back those good old days.
I can’t for the life of me think of any other reason.
If that is the case then someone needs to remind him that this is a country we’re talking about and not some old black and white photograph.
I will try to give you at least one reason. When Mintoff defeated Sant in Parliament, and Sant after that lost the election, all the followers of “the traitor” did not vote Labour.
Muscat saw that it was imperative (if he is to win 2013 election) for the lost sheep to come back to the fold. Hence the call to the “skippable” lot to return.
Good point.
Horrible people, horrible memories.
At best, Karmenu Vella is “one of the best ministers of all time” of the worst governments of Malta of all time.
Soleil and Etoile:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2049270/Gwyneth-Paltrow-like-Apple-1-10-parents-suffer-baby-remorse.html