What else is he going to buy with other people’s money when he’s prime minister?
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April 29, 2012 at 12:36pm
So it turns out – not that we hadn’t suspected it – that Joseph Muscat used Labour Party funds to buy himself a seat in parliament so that he could become leader of the Opposition.
Yes, he literally bought his seat. And he didn’t use his own money to do it, which figures.
And nobody, of course, is shocked. You know why? Because we have way lower standards for Labour.
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Why worry it is their funds, it only bothers me when I hear of Ministers who gets jobs done in their homes, through promises of works contracts being given to the contractors.
[Daphne – I hear of lots of things, Jacky, including some very unusual things Joseph Muscat got up to in Brussels. Fortunately, I am not one to take ‘what I hear’ as fact. You have also heard that I am a witch who flies around on her broom at night. You obviously have a great need to check whether this is actually true. Please give me a call and I’ll show you that my broom doesn’t do ‘megiks’. Credulousness and believing ‘what you hear’ are signs of a medieval mind, Jacky. As for your ‘why worry because it’s their money’ argument about the leader of the Labour Party buying himself a seat in parliament to make himself leader of the Opposition, I now realise just how frighteningly poor the Maltese understanding of democracy really is. Buying your seat in parliament, or offering money to a member of parliament in order to take his seat is a serious issue.]
Since I don’t donate any money to any party so they are not using my hard earned cash, on the otherhand the government takes a good part of my wages, and I hope it is not misused.
“What else is he going to buy with other people’s money when he’s prime minister?”
Nothing. He will just grab things off their legitimate owners. Like Dom Mintoff, father of Mintoff Yana, Joseph’s star candidate, did with the National Bank of Malta.
My thoughts exactly.
Incredible how the Labour official casually described Cuschieri’s job as ‘just a deal struck with Mr.Muscat’.
Yesterday’s proposal to offer jobs to sixteen year olds ‘suited to their skills’ may be the answer to your question. Now that his crusade for a gas powered station has been reduced to nothing, he has to promise further.
If it is unlawful to ‘buy’ an organ for transplantation…
If it is unlawful to ‘bribe’ an official for speedier service…
Is it all right to ‘buy’ a seat in Parliament?
Which also brings up the question; While Cuschieri was sidelined after he handed over his elected seat to the non-elected Joseph, was he not compensated for the three years he had to wait until he became MEP ? Who paid him? The Labour Party? From what funds? From supporters who dig deep into their pockets with the aim of helping the Party, rather than an individual?
No wonder Joseph is so anxious to get it over with, because the more one has an opportunity to dig, the more underhanded deals will be unearthed.
Who paid him?
Dak bil-ftit tal-hafna thallas, or was it thallas hafna ghall ftit? I’m confused now.
What about the retard who is spending around 100 million that doesn’t belong to him to build a parliament that isn’t needed?
[Daphne – You’re an Englishman from Northern Ireland, Mr Tyrrel. You have scant respect for anybody’s self-determination or democracy, other than your own. Of course you wouldn’t think that Malta needs a parliament house.]
Nice Parliament Building you’ve got there in Northern Ireland, Tyrell. How much do you value it on the open market?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stormont.jpg
No idea ciccio, but then given the fact that it was built in 1932 long before I was born why would I care?
[Daphne – Not THAT long before you were born, James.]
Joseph needs it, he promised Lawrence Gonzi the honours.
I’ve been told the opening performance at the theatre shall be Mozart’s Pappagone.
‘Pappageno’, you numbskull.
I refer to De Filippo’s version.
Who the hell are you to decide that we in Malta do not need a proper parliament building?
Are you saying that Malta does need a new Parliament building Daphne?
[Daphne – James, Malta doesn’t HAVE a parliament house. So yes, of course we need one.]
Are you saying that it was right for Gonzi to break your countries own laws in order to build this new Parliament?
[Daphne – Country’s, James, not countries. We talking the possessive here, not the plural. What laws would those be? Cite chapter and verse, please, otherwise I am unable to give an opinion.]
Are you happy that the idiot has lumbered the country with payments of 5 million a year for the next twenty years to pay for the bloody thing? By the way Daphne Englishmen come from England strangely enough. People in N. Ireland are British.
[Daphne – Which idiot? The only one I see here is my present interlocutor. Five million a year? Please give me a breakdown of the accounts. Not that I care. I grew up with far more than that being funnelled down the maw of the drydocks and a whole bunch of other bums. Better a Renzo Piano parliament house than Sammy Meilak and his friends, any day. ‘People in Northern Ireland are British’ – not if they’re English, and just living there. Living in Gozo doesn’t make you a goat, does it.]
“Are you saying that it was right for Gonzi to break YOUR countries own laws in order to build this new Parliament? ”
Hmmm, what’s YOUR country, Beowulf?
@ Beowulf
So the retard has now become idiot. He’s the prime minister of the country in which you choose to spend most of your time while not being one of itc citizens. How would you feel if a group of Maltese went to live in Northern Ireland and spent their time on the internet calling David Cameron a retard and an idiot and insulting his every move?
I had the privilege of meeting a lot of Irishmen in my professional life. Most of them are great people, some of them absolute lowlifes. But you sir take the cake. You are an absolute a**hole.
Go back to wherever, why don’t you? And while you’re at, get a life.
[Daphne – Is he actually Irish? Or just an Englishman in Northern Ireland?]
Have you put anything towards that sum James Tyrell? (Beowulf? Really? How old are you?).
The way you bleat on, so tiresomely, atop whichever soapbox is convenient, anyone would think you were footing the entire bill yourself.
As another ‘Brit abroad’, if I was so obviously fed up here as you are, and so full of spite and ‘lanzit’ (look it up) then hey! I’d just leave.
Either that or I’d just shut the eff up.
James Tyrell aka Beowulf has still not got over the transformation of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) into the PSNI (Police Service Northern Ireland) plus the Good Friday Agreement plus the vist of Queen Elizabeth to Dublin…need I continue, you get the trend.
Another plus :Plus Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister at Stormont; that must really stick in Beowulf ‘s craw.
That’s the point Neil, I’m not footing the bill you are and will be for the next 20 years. Why? Because you support the retard who is building it.
Beowulf, leave us to it. You can bury your dead.
James – please refer to Daphne’s above comment re the dockyards, when it comes to tax money going down the drain.
Re your comment here – so, you’re saying that YOU won’t be paying anything simply because you DON’T support the current administration? Isn’t it rather because you don’t work and pay tax here in Malta, the country you chose to settle in when you left Northern Ireland (for whatever reason…), and do nothing but find fault with? You definitely need to get a hobby James.
And while we’re here – your calling the Prime Minister a retard, simply because you are not of the same ‘colour’ is disgraceful and vulgar. You are an embarrassment to the British.
Tyrell, if you are not Maltese and don’t live in Malta, why on Earth are you even commenting on the Maltese government?
Is it because there is no Northern Irish government?
So Dr Muscat really wanted to become Labour’s leader and played the game in order to do so. What do you know, the guy is ambitious.
The trouble with ‘ambitious’ is that it is always a negative adjective. In all of English literature the ambitious character turns out to be the villain, like Macbeth for example.
So being seen as ambitious is not a positive thing. Driven is one thing, ambition is another.
He has always struck me as the type, but this is proof of it as far as I am concerned.
The ambitious people I have met in life have this pathological need to win. They are competitive and will always be relied upon to resort to the lowest of tricks to get further and further. I wonder what other tricks he has played.
The only person employed with Mr. Cuschieri is a Bulgarian citizen. Ma felahx jimpjega Malti? Aren’t they crying anymore because foreigners are coming to steal our jobs?
I wonder if Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando would use the word ‘mercenary’ to qualify such a deal.
The end justifies the means.
Joseph gets to become a figurehead prime minister thanks to the Mintoffian vote.
Dan Tyrell dejjem jippretendi li jghidilna kit nilbsu l-qalziet. Mentality kolonjalista gwappa, hu, u kill min mind ids mieghu.