Yes i am. I don’t hide under false names. What i write is correct contrary to what i read.

[Daphne – Aren’t you his brother? Then best keep out of it.]

“… he’s put water on both main parties’ agenda, and that’s something to applaud and not attack”

This is an exaggerated comment, because water has been on both parties agenda since time immemorial.

The party in government has long been closing boreholes for example so that the water table salinity settles to acceptable levels.Injecting the water table with storm water has been done with the construction of water catchments in places like Tal-Barrani , Haz-Zebbug and other places, so that the stored water permeates slowly into the ground and than pumped into potable water reservoirs.

Marco is a bit of a salesman; he is doing this Sargas type of publicity. Maybe if Joseph woos Marco towards the PL we will have another “surprise” candidate, and we will have comments on The Times on the vein of “Marco for Minister of water; he is better than Tonio.”

We had the ’scoop’ that the Maestro Mifsud was going to be a Labour candidate: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110828/local/A-rocking-candidate-for-Labour-in-Sliema-.382094/comments:2

Then we had the last ‘surprise’ of the paediatrician Chris Fearne who launched his campaign with the PL some two days ago during the Party Fundraising Holiday.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111213/local/paediatric-surgeon-announces-his-candidature.398232

Somebody even commented beneath the story that Labour voters are “spoiled” for choice (in Silvio Parnis’s district) . Now if I were an old Labour supporter who should I vote for, the health assistant Silvio Parnis who brings me the pills and the nappies or the “professur tat-tfal” whom I never saw in the “Berga tas-Sahha”, and who couldn’t tell the difference between the “kartuna is-safra” and the “kartuna r-roza”?

Interestingly, Mr Chris Fearne has a ‘rokna’ on RTK radio, like the dentist and property/antiques dealer Marlene Farrugia, architect Robert Musumeci and lawyer Toni Abela have.

When is the Church radio station going to wake up and stop these politicians from taking a free publicity ride on its back? Can’t the church find decent guest dentists, doctors, lawyers,and architects for its programmes – people who are not trying to drum up electoral support?

It’s the same with TVM’s “Sahtek l-ewwel” which looks more like a parliamentary programme with guests like JPO, Anthony Zammit, and Jean Pierre Farrugia, than one on healthy living .

How right you are Baxxter – down to earth as usual. I would call these types adventurers rather than heroes.

Real heroes are brave in difficult and trying circumstances not of their own making or choice ( and I have a few real Maltese heroes in mind) – and they don`t go round seeking constant recognition either.

Mark, it’s Marco Cremona himself who claims to be apolitical. The accusation (and point of this blog entry) is not that he supports AD but that he is not what he claims to be.

It’s not an accusation. It’s an observation. And it’s less about Marco Cremona than about those who think that he’s apolitical.

Propably suffering from the “Sargas Syndrome”.

Daphne you are sadly typical of most Maltese politically motivated bloggers and opinion-makers. Anyone who criticises one of the two main parties is seen as being in cahoots with the other main party, vide the attack on Marco the other week. When one is then an AD supporter he is depicted as a loon, a loser and of course someone who still props up the other party in some indirect manner.

Salvu Balzan basically accused AD of being PN supporters when he had a go at Michael Briguglio’s praise for certain measures announced in this year’s budget. Political maturity dictates that one would praise or criticise another party’s policies with honesty and not political gain in mind. It seems that despite a lot of talk about that, it is still a no go area here in Malta. Tribalism triumphs at the end of the day.

As for Baxxter, I am looking forward to his list of armchair heroics.

Only the dumb and unthinking who cry “I’m not interested in politics” while still having to pay their taxes are apolitical.

All the other intelligent beings form an opinion, and political parties should by trying to attract them. Accusing someone of not being apolitical is accusing him of forming an opinion.

The same thing Labour is doing to Lou Bondi.