Our heroes for democracy: they braved the weather to vote
Maltastar’s headline this morning was ‘MUSCAT BRAVES WEATHER TO VOTE’.
The story began by telling us that the Labour leader and his wife were among the first to brave the weather and vote in their home hamlet of Burmarrad.
The story and headline were then changed, but the accompanying video, which gives new meaning to the derogatory term ‘anorak’, remains.
Well, I live just above Burmarrad and I can tell you for a fact that by 9am there was no weather to brave. It wasn’t even raining.
So I guess these two hung about near the window from 7am and then said ‘Quick, it’s raining. Let’s rush out in it wearing our anoraks and followed by cameras, before it stops.’
So sad.
I braved the weather by staying home. Fortunately, after all these years the Nationalist Party has finally got the message and no longer has its agents ring me to find out whether I need help getting to the polling station.
But Muscat can bet that I won’t be doing that when we’re called to vote in the only election that means anything at all.
Just look at this ridiculous video.
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Irony? After the end of the clip, when Youtube suggests what videos to watch next, two of them are about the now-famed criminal Joseph Kony.
One News and Kony being mentioned in the same breath – you couldn’t make it up.
Mela marru qasmu l-Atlantiku biex imorru jivvutaw?
Michelle’s outfit is impressive.
Daphne, the people’s voices must be heard. Democracy can’t survive if people take a nonchalant attitude towards their civic duty even if it’s the local council elections. Perhaps they are unimportant to some people is because their fundamental structure when was set up was not complete.
In other developed countries the towns do not receive any money from the central government.
The councils raise revenue from the residents of their respective towns. If the councils are authorized to raise money for their towns through taxes, such as property taxes on homes or cars, then we would see a very different attitude towards these elections.
Fraud, party partisan and party intervention will be repelled and eliminated.
The central government doesn’t need to increase the tax burden on people at all. It can lower the payroll income tax and shift some taxation power to the councils. Here we will see the people more involved in their communities.
It has worked in other developed countries and can work in Malta too.
The only problem is that in Malta some towns are too small to raise a working capital..
That man is a disgrace to Mallory and Irvine.
Can someone enlighten me as to whether you’re allowed to drive through the road where the voting is taking place or not? I was under the impression that you’re allowed to drive through, but not park within fifty metres or something of the sort, but I’ve just been stopped from going through at Paola.
Another question: How is one allowed right up to the door of the buiilding where voting is taking place if one does not vote in that locality? Or does Stefan Buontempo perhaps have a summer house in that area, on which his ID card is registered?
Imagine him leading Europe to weather the current economic storm, instead of Angela Merkel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzA_xesrL8
He should have worn Timberland. North Face is so 2010.
If Obama wore North Face, then Joseph has to too:
http://www3.images.coolspotters.com/photos/69057/barack-obama-and-the-north-face-gallery.jpg
If you wear the North Face brand in America especially if you’re American and an athlete, (Obama, runs with his personal trainer every day) it means that you CAN afford a decent brand of clothing because you’re a sportsman/woman and you need to feel comfortable whilst practising your sport.
But if you wear the North Face brand in Malta in a country where ‘hawn il-batuti fil-pajjiz’, ‘hawn l-ghaks u l-guh’ and especially if you are NOT an athlete, it hurts the poor who can’t afford a jacket let alone a North Face one.
You can buy a lot of cabbages for soppa tal-armla with the porice of that jacket.
Perhaps Timberland is a cheaper brand. If we’re going to do brands, majtezwell, go for the best hux?
Impressive how brave Joseph is. Reminds me of Eddie and Guido on the truck at Tal Barrani with bullets missing them by inches and tear gas being fired by the police. U hallina, Joseph.
Worthy of Discovery Channel.
For Christ’s Sake! I brave the British weather at 3:00am on a regular basis when I am called into hospital. Does that make me a hero?
It does if you plant a Maltese flag on the patient’s bed and get The Times carry a story of your exploits.
I see that they had their bridesmaid (Buontempo) in tow. Funny, when he doesn’t even live in Burmarrad.
As for Joseph and Michelle Muscat? What utter chavs! I suppose that they were trying to blend in with the electorate, eh, turning up in an anorak, him wearing well-worn(out) jeans.
And another thing – Am I the only one to notice how it’s always HER holding onto him, with him acting like he doesn’t give a toss about anyone other than himself?
Buontempo the pageboy.
Yes the black North Face (the brand used by mountaineers, rock climbers and hikers) jacket caught my attention.
Quite an expensive brand indeed considering that ‘hawn l-ghaks u l-guh fil-pajjiz’.
Forsi fake.
No, it definitely was an original North Face jacket.
To identify an original NF jacket from a fake one, one only needs to look closely at the garment and at the two identical North Face logos.
In this case the jacket did have the two logos, just as North Face makes them: one on the front left corner of the jacket and the one on the back – (lower right shoulder).
[Daphne – Why are we discussing Joseph Muscat’s North Face jacket? It should have been a Barbour, anyway. He’s the wrong shape for a Belstaff. Michelle’s wellies are more worthy of discussion: silver fashion wellies. The proper thing to wear in that situation would have been leather boots. Wellies are for the garden, slopping out stables, and trudging through fields, in which case they must always be green and bought from a farm supply shop. If you are going to wear wellies in public and for show, then they’ve got to be Hunter. But the fact is, you don’t wear wellies just because it’s raining, unless you’re five years old and want to splash in puddles with mummy.]
Dak bahri tal-maltemp ukoll mhux tal-bnazzi biss. Hawn min johrog jaqla x’jiekol fil-maltemp u fix-xemx tizreg u mhux biex jivvota.
Forsi ried jaghti ezempju lil Schettino.
Imma kemm jiflhu jaqghu vojta u redikoli.
I think it’s time we relax on some of these regulations. This is not the 1980s and we dont have thugs intimidating us as we go to vote. If there is any trouble anywhere the police should intervene quickly and decisively and that’s it (again, thank God the police force is not same as it was in the 80s).
@ frank
You are right in what you said regarding entering with your car within the 50 meters of the polling booth area, but you cannot park and people on foot cannot stop either. But you know, our policemen are all fully aware of the law, like when in Zejtun they allowed Qahbu to enter the school building during the MEPs election.
But that was Edwin Bartolo il-Qahbu and not a law-abiding citizen like you. And when the Nationalist supporters protested and reported this incident to the police, the officers e on duty replied that they were not aware that he should not be there, and these supporters were beaten by Qahbu in full view of the police.
In this tiny Island some people are special.