@ Mr Kev,

The subject of this thread on Ms DCG blog is Suha Arafat, NOT the Blairs.
How insufferably boring YOU are.

I could gather similar links related to Blair and Cherie, but that’s too far off your little paradigm. Indeed, as Daphne said, what a long, drooling YAWN you lot are.

http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000737.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3479937.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/feb/12/france.israel

Kelliex xi accountant/Nutar Malti din ukoll kif kellu i-ttifel ta Gheddafi?

Links spanning almost ten years re to Yasser’s and Suha’s little nest egg;

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/a/suha_arafat/index.html

Enjoy, Mr Kev.

“Can’t he understand that he is condoning irresponsible behaviour and a complete disregard in accountability“.

You disparage an innovative and competent minister who had the courage to take the bull by the horns and tackle a sector which not even Mintoff – for all his tough talk and strongarm tactics – could handle.

Just because things are still being fine-tuned and may even take some time to do so does not mean that they will not eventually come round to being adjusted satisfactorily.

Rome wasn`t built in a day, for goodness`s sake. I mean, the Labour Party took one year- or was it two ? – to design and change its party emblem.

You overlook the fact that a huge stride forward has been made in overhauling the behemoth which was the previous Third World public transport system – and that, in my opinion, is good enough, for a start.

I’m sure that if you were given 54 million euro not only would you have got rid of the old buses and drivers but probably captured Gaddafi and Bin Laden alive.

As to the issue on lawyers being present during interrogation, you conveniently gave my emphasis a different interpretation. Of course I’m in favour that this basic right has finally been given to us citizens, but Franco Debono has been insisting for months that the way this was implemented was lousy to say the least.

[Daphne – Yes, but unlike you, I don’t take Franco Debono seriously because I know, and you might not, that he’s only doing this because he wants to be made Minister of Justice. It’s also the reason he harps on about the need to separate the justice and police portfolios – not because that’s the way it should be done (and it should) but because he thinks he will get justice and Mifsud Bonnici will get the police. When a person is motivated by self-interest, I cease to be interested.]

You’re wrong about only two choices. Not voting is a choice, and no, it is not chickening out or indecision.

[Daphne – Of course it is a choice. Like passing by a drowning man and doing nothing is a choice. Whether it is a responsible or sensible choice is another matter. Not voting does not mean chickening out or indecision. I never said that. To me, it means a terrible and worrying sense of disengagement.]

I identify with none of alternatives available at the present time.

Unless I’m alone with sharing this sentiment, Dr Gonzi needs to understand that he has become a serious liability to Malta’s future and the promises of a new style of leadership built on accountability and responsibility never materialised.

And please spare me the pedantic argument of we not being in the ‘mire’.

[Daphne – I’m the very last person you could call pedantic. And no, we are not in the mire. I actually think we’re utterly ridiculous. Buses, buses, buses all the way, even as our neighbours in Europe and North Africa are on fire and we sit mollycoddled in our island bubble. Shades of Lilliput.]

I’m a professional finance person and perfectly understand that we have only been spared from the catastrophic consequences of this turmoil due to years of prudent and stringent Central Bank monetary policy.

The other thing that saved us is our financial services industry, and yes correct, that’s thanks to Bonello Depuis, John Dalli and agreement on both sides of the house.

[Daphne – Well, then, chin up and stop grumbling. ]

Otherwise, you come out as just another empty-headed bigot – which is exactly what you are.

[Daphne – Shame you aren’t here, Kevin, so I can yawn in your face. ]

You make it sound as if it was difficult.

I would like to point out that they were paid millions and had an overall good deal. We the tax payers got the brunt.

So many people in Malta were given millions (Telemalta, Kalaxlokk, Air Malta and more) – when are we people in the private sector going to get anything?

[Daphne – You’re in the private sector. If you want hand-outs, get a job as a civil servant.]

We solve problems in this country by dishing out taxpayers’ money. Very easy for a while…I am thinking of Greece just now …….

[Daphne – Exactly.]

The country of origin of the diplomat can withdraw his or her immunity. The host country on the other can hand can expel the criminal diplomat.