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Don Manuel Cuschieri - they think he's a priest with a mobile phone business
A comment posted beneath the ‘Simon Busuttil/electoral meltdown’ story on timesofmalta.com today:
raymond scicluna
Today, 14:16
Well the PL does not need to enter such delicate exercise. It is really touching our every day lives and i can vouch for that. Two weeks prior to election day, i received a telephone call from PL asking if i can confirm or otherwise that i received the voting document and if i need any assistance on election day. Then on the day, they called again to ascertain themselves that i casted my vote too. Before that last summer, in the middle of a heatwave, Don Manwel Cuschieri knocked at the door together with a team of red touch too. HE invited me to subscribe myself with the PL. As i said before PL is really close to the people in the streets for every incovenience ever that s why 56% voted for labour.
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“As i said before PL is really close to the people in the streets for every incovenience ever that s why 56% voted for labour.”
Indeed.
I just keep on hoping he was being ironic rather than moronic.
Gabli qalbi perzuta jahasra, kemm hu orrajt.
Ghandu qaghda ta’ qassis, ha nghidilkom.
I agree with Raymond Scicluna on this one: whenever there’s an inconvenience, you’re sure the find the PL somehow involved
So Raymond is being pestered and pressurised incessantly by the PL party machine, and he interprets that as PL being close to the people.
That is not being ‘close to the people’ Raymond, That is what in Maltese is referred to as ‘jitkahhlu ma s**mok’
Any idea anybody as to what all this is about?
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Press-freedom-index-demotes-Malta-without-explaining-why-20120313
This sounds ludicrous .
If press freedom in Malta is so abyssmal at present, then how could it have been described in the 70s and 80s when Malta had its very own Kristallnacht that day in October 1979 when the Times was burnt down?
Yes Rainman, the PL is well known to interfere in people’s private lives, because they just about call everyone to ask if you’ve voted, Nationalist and Labour.
It’s like when Dun Manwel came to your door selling Red Touch (because when a product is not selling you go door to door) and you thinking it was a man of the cloth, selling you God’s direct link phone.
Bless you.
Just a question: but isn’t this written tongue-in-cheek?
That’s what I think too. There is something about the structure of the comment, it is too stupid to be true.
If the (M)LP is resorting to the style prevalent in the 70s and 80s, going door to door asking for support and the votes, it is their business. It is their belief (and they may be right) that their popularity has to come from those who have not yet joined the mainstream and therefore cannot be reached by electronic means. It also shows that they know that within the ‘converted’ there may be soft spots and they will not take any chances.
On the other hand the NP rather unwisely, assume that their supporters are of a special breed and not subject to the same emotions as Labour supporters are. Maybe there is some truth about that because NP supporters are generally better informed ( no thanks to the Party marketing), better educated and more capable of making the right choices without having to resort to doubtful tactics like sending SMSs indiscriminately and without the consent of mobile or land-line users.
For this reason any razor sharp analysis of the LCs results is at best tentative if not outright erroneous. I have a suspicion that the NP has taken an apologetic stance in order to spur its supporters out their lethargy well in advance to the date they are required to dust it off and do what their duty is and to vote for a good government which has proven itself over and over again.
Being unnecessarily ‘in-the-face’ of voters by knocking on their doors may actually irritate the soft core supporters and do more damage than good.
Political parties should be more sophisticated in the use of their media, both electronic and print, and not come across as ‘our might is right’ and that the other side ‘is always wrong’. There has to be a balance even when criticizing opponents because, if there isn’t, the question of credibility comes to play.
In this respect, it is the Labour Party which is sadly found wanting and characters like Joe Grima, Joe Debono Grech, AST and others are not helping one iota.
It is without doubt that NET TV provides better quality programming with shows like ‘Iswed fuq l-Abjad’, ‘Newsroom’ and such. Debates, with Labour guests included are by far more civil, less rowdy and less adversarial than some two bit programmes on One TV which quite often are utterly unbearable.
No doubt the NP has a lot to do with barely enough time to do it, but let us not make the mistake of assuming that all those who did not collect their vote or abstained, are all going to do the same or vote Labour come next election.
I wonder if Don Manuel Cuschieri of the RED touch was travelling around with a RED Ferrari, like Fader Gordin.
But I think that Raymond Scicluna’s comment is a big tongue in cheek.
He’s taking the mick.
Manuel Cuschieri once called at my business office for a donation to the Labour Party. When I explained to him the good old days of the 70s and getting beaten up for being seen with a Nazzjon, he asked me if I was living in the same country.
Huwa evidenti li l-kampanja li ghamlu tal-PL kienet wahda ta’ elezzjoni generali u mhux ta’ livell lokali. Igorru n-nies bil-vannijiet anke tan-nies b’dizzabilta’ il-gurnata kollha, canvasers u kandidati fejn l-iskejjel il-gurnata kollha, kandidati ghal parlament u deputati anke fis-sala tal-ghadd tal-voti u anqas naf x’aktar!
Izda b’dan ir-rizultat issamru u ghalqu halqhom ghax hasbu li se jzidu xeba’ voti. U fhemu wkoll li jekk il-gvern prezenti jibqa jahdem kif qed jahdem, biss pero jisma aktar lil poplu se jerga jkun fil-gvern. Nahseb issa fhemu wkoll li il-poplu ma’ jridhomx fil-gvern.
Anqas haqq kemm ilhom iduru bieb bieb u jivvintaw stejjer fuq is-Super One u One TV. Jinqdew JPO, Franco Debono u Mugliette. In-nies mhux hmir u jafu xi jsarraf il-Labour fil-gvern ghax jghidlek moghd u jaghmel moghd iehor.
U jien nistaqsi! Jekk il-moghd kif qed imexxi Gonzi huwa hazin u l-poplu ma’ jridux fil-gvern ghalfejn dan il-hafna attakki kontrih personali? Ihalluh jaghmel li qed jaghmel jekk jahsbu li in-nies se tivvota Labour bi hgara.
Sometimes I wonder whether Labour – priests and all – know what they are doing. To me it seems, for instance, that John Dalli has taken them for a ride.
All his anti-Gonzi antics seem, in retrospect, to be nothing but a smokescreen to keep the Opposition off his back. Now he’s facing hostile EU opinion about GMOs. Why is Dalli so adamant about introducing GMO crops? Has his judgement been modified, not genetically of course?
“You can’t fix stupid.”