Leo Brincat, of all people, tells us that you can’t reboot politicians
Herr Flick: I've been watching him reboot since my teenage years.
Herr Flick, that Labour legacy from the 1970s and 1980s, tells us with not the slightest trace of irony, in The Times today:
TRY TO REBOOT A POLITICIAN
By Leo Brincat
You can reboot a movie franchise that might appear to be losing steam. This was done successfully with the Bond movies in Casino Royale and in the case of the recent Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
But it is far more difficult to reboot a politician (…)
Isn’t that what Joseph Muscat has spent the last four years doing, Leo? Rebooting old politicians like yourself and resurrecting zombies from their coffins?
Why, one of them is even writing your electoral manifesto in between his personal business ventures.
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Exactly my thoughts! Incredible how this being can insult the memory of so many people with disgusting nonchalance.
Spot on, Daphne!
How many times has Herr Flick been rebooted? He was part of Mintoffianism, then part of Zeroism (Jew b’xejn jew xejn), then part of New Labour (Il-Labour inehhi l-VAT), and now he thinks he is one of the young generation of the Progressivi Moderati.
Herr Flick should check his political expiry date. It says Use by 9 May 1987. The faster we get rid of politicians like Herr Flick from Malta’s political landscape, the less grey landscape we see.
Oh there are worse ones than Herr Flick, ciccio!
Much worse!
Forget rebooting. Their shutdown time is well overdue.
Rebooting? Muscat’s is a full digital remastering and restoration of a black-and-white silent movie.
Brilliant!
No end in sight.
Can’t we reboot Malta and get rid of the lot?
There must be a way, surely.
Herr Flick – you’re killing us, Daf.
He remained silent when Labour took up John Dalli’s coal scuttle, too busy chasing windfarms presumably. Given that, until last week, Karmenu Vella didn’t exclude that option, contradicting Marlene, what exactly is his role now? In other words, whose side is he, as spokesman for the environment, on?
You seem to have missed this letter in today’s Times by Valerie Borg:
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 , by Valerie Borg, Valletta
Alternation of power
The Nationalists are hurling verbal abuse at the Labour Party because they know that their 25-year-old stint in government is nearly over.
In return, the PL, led by the educated, intelligent and good-looking Joseph Muscat, is as quiet as a mouse. It knows that victory is only a few months away.
Will the Nationalists accept the loss of power?
No doubt, they will have to just as the PL accepted 25 years in opposition.
Educated and intelligent my foot.
The clue is in the third adjective. “Good-looking”. Was there ever a Labour leader that Valerie Borg did not have a crush on?
What happens if they’re not elected?
According to Valerie Borg, Alfred Braveheart Sant was also good-looking.
@ Louis – if Joseph Muscat is good looking, then my husband is George Clooney.
And good looking MY foot!
Good-looking? Joseph Muscat? Really?
You find him good-looking, then.
Educated? Intelligent? Good-looking? Valerie Borg is clearly mixing Muscat up with somebody else.
And I thought that Dr Alfred Sant’s 1996-1998 CET, EU Membership freeze government was (New) Labour.
You inflate a balloon in two minutes and I blow it up in a split of a second.
She probably mistook him for Simon Busuttil.
Good -looking? How can anyone on earth, except for maybe his mother, can think that?
Whenever I see Herr Flick I shudder; he scares me more than the other “golden boys” of Labour’s so-called “Golden Years”.
Of course they haven’t always had good-looking leaders have they?
Reboot. Now, let me think.
In computer lingo, reboot means ‘stop all you’re doing and start all over again’. That usually happens when one gets stuck or the computer freezes and one reboots in order to restart fresh.
This is what PL excel at.
The pot calling the kettle black.
On the Maltese political scene, Leo, with some of his comrades, is the epitome of rebooted politicians for close to thirty years.
Heqq, Herr Flikk is the one who orders “You may kiss me now Helga” That doesn’t simply reboot him. It resurrects him.
Well, Brandstätter practically resurrected the Maltese economy.
Oh THAT Helga.
He definitely hasn’t managed to restructure Debono Grech after his recent speech – a stark reminder of the 80s. Actually the PN should thank Debono Grech for his speech – it got disgruntled Nationalists like me thinking about whether we should give these people one chance again, ever.
I think we are wasting a lot of good time. The priority is to try and get down to the problem of the thousands of PN supporters who stayed at home and did not bother to vote. Will we have the same at the elections next year? I think we should all be asking why did this happen.
According to a lady phoning in on Newsdesk on Radio 101 she (and all her family) didn’t go out to vote because first the government took away her husband’s job (he was a bus driver) and then took away his favourite hobby (bird trapping).
Many electors stayed away because we are still not free from the shackles of the mentality which requires the country to do something for me instead of the other way round.
Why do you think that we should all be asking why this happened?
Will it change anything if we do? I mean PN will lose the next election. There’s nothing we can do about it except stock up on Lugers and cyanide capsules.
@Baxxter
My point, exactly.
Do you remember our Leo as Labour spokesman for IT? When he was in government we could not even import cordless telephones, let alone information technology. Now if I am not mistaken he is a shadow minister for the environment and criticises the dirty power station, when he never had anything to say about the dirty coal-fired Marsa turned power station of his time. What nerve. They may fool the young ones but not us who they trod underfoot.