How about if the Speaker were to confiscate their smartphones?
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November 14, 2011 at 9:11pm
As if it weren’t enough that Anglu Farrugia was on Facebook for most of the ‘vote of confidence’ session in parliament, now we have some very dignified behaviour by Labour MP Luciano Busuttil, also on Facebook, during the Budget speech tonight.
Luciano Busuttil
Kif qabzitli!
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Luciano Busuttil
id-diskors tal-budget ha nirrekordjah u nuzah biex it-tifla tkun tista torqod! GHAX RAQQADNI!
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Luciano Busuttil
ISSA ANKA SIEQI RAQDET
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Dan se joqghod jghidilna x’ghandu rieqed u x’ghandu mqajjem?
Saqajh raqdu qal, imma min jaf ta’ bejniethom, b’dak l-eccitament kollu ghaddej fuq il-Wall tieghu?
Partit shih rieqed, bla ideat.
Jghidu li l-course tal-ligi trid taghmlu lejl u nhar imqajjem bl-istudju.
Din l-ahhar cajta “Manu vulgari”.
Mill-1 ta’ Jannar se tigi introdotta sisa fuq ic-cajt doppju sens.
By the people,for the people…….yeah sure.
FW!
I can understand him, it happens to me everytime I’m in the wrong place and not understanding the subject discussed.
Taks Fors Budget 2012
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Xi dwejjaq.
Be careful what you wish for. Eternity is a bit too long a time spent in that kind of company.
Ghandi T-shirt ahmar ghallukkazjoni.
It’s a sad and shameful situation that we have to pay taxes to fund people like him in our parliament.
If he is fed up, he can step down – my country can make better use of the money being wasted on such a childish and irresponsible person.
What undignified behaviour. I can’t imagine the more respectable of our Nationalist MPs behaving that way, though we have had a gaffe or two, such as Tonio Fenech posting his “Twistee factory visit” photos on Facebook the day war broke out in Libya. At least he seems to be making up for it this evening.
You can’t blame him though – budget speeches have become oh so boring.
We no longer hear about the exciting topics that we once used to, like the 5 mils increase in the price of a tin of tuna or the levy on shoes imported from non communist countries.
Such nostalgia. What I miss most is the mounting tension, followed by the you-can-cut-it-with-a-knife atmosphere the next day.
More from Luciano’s wall:
Maris Dimech
Spicca it tiatrin Dr Luciano?
Luciano Busuttil
LLEEEEEEEE! ghadu ghaddej. 88 pagna ta hrejjef
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Does Dr Luciano realise he’s not in a village band club committee meeting or a university lecture hall?
No mention of the price of skalora either.
So boring.
Yep. And what kind of self-respecting government refuses to give the budget a name?
In the glorious 1980s, Mintoff used to lovingly provide a name for every budget. I vaguely recall “il-budget tal-qawsalla” among others.
[Daphne – That’s the one we all remember, because it was the November 1986 budget speech and things could not have been worse.]
I am looking forward to reading Lino Spiteri’s comments in The Times. He always finds fault in anything the PN does.
His budgets, when he was Minister of Finance under Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, also had grandoise sounding titles or names.
Wasn’t ‘il-bagit tal-qawsalla’ a Lino Spiteri masterpiece?
Or tonn taz-zejt or Flying Wheel luncheon meat.
I’m not surprised Busuttil was having a hard time following the budget speech. If I recall correctly, a few months back his idea of raising revenue was to confiscate Libyan assets in Malta.
Oh come on , I agree with Luciano Busuttil on this one.
Why should the Maltese budget take more than two hours, and the UK Budget only one hour?
[Daphne – Because of cultural differences, David: concise language and mentality versus long-winded language and mentality. In Italy it’s probably three or four hours, for the same reason.]
Frankly I think there were many parts of this year’s speech cut and pasted from last year’s , a shopping list of projects yet to start , and repeated ad nauseam every year.
The budget speech should be the salient points of revenue and expenditure, and new initiatives, not a narrative of the smallest of projects or measures which have a budget allocation of Eur 100 K..
But in Labour budgets, it was the price of “kavalli” , so I guess there is some improvement – but let’s cut the crap by half.
And what about Tonio Fenech’s procession walking into parliament , followed by Robert Arrigo , and Jason Azzopardi – it was like the Duluri.
David’s right. The Maltese have crap thinking skills, and crap language skills to go with them. But that’s the price you pay for independence.
Does he realise the speech represented all that was discussed and concluded with unions, the Chamber of Commerce, industry and other stakeholders?
Do they have to ridicule anything not of their making? When will they realise this country has learned to move on without them?
It’s disgusting. I’m sorry, but they should be kicked out of Parliament.
Not only are they disrespecting the government, their colleagues in the Opposition, and the entire decomcratic process, but simply put they’re not doing their job.
Facebooking on company time is grounds for dismissal at many “ordinary” jobs; certainly MPs should be held to even higher levels of professionalism.
But what’s even more disgraceful is that no one really seems to be outraged about it.
Get mad, Malta! You only ever seem to get REALLY mad about something if it is initiated by or suggested by a foreigner (such as Arriva, CABS, the EU, shall I go on?).
If it’s a “homegrown” abuse or offence then it’s typical Maltese mentality: “Hazin, imma m’hemmx taghmel.”
The entire country should be embarrassed by these mens’ behaviour. They are making a mockery of the institution of Parliament, and a mockery of you all.
And with your silence they’re doing so with your tacit consent.