Never mind, Adrian – it was a mistake from day one
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May 11, 2012 at 10:33am
It’s interesting to see that the very same Labour supporters who lauded Franco Debono for his courage and principles and fine, upstanding behaviour are the very same ones who are tearing Adrian Vassallo to shreds on the internet.
Jahasra, ghax kellhom wiehed pulit u tal-pepe…they got rid of him. Prosit tassew. Well, anyway, I could have told him that at the outset. To be from Adrian Vassallo’s sort of background and embroil yourself with Labour, you must have the spiteful, nasty personality of Alex Sceberras Trigona, or be blissfully oblivious like John Attard Montaldo.
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Not a word about this on Malta Today. Min jaf ghalfejn?
One should hear Adrian’s labour constituents this morning, calling him Traditur.
They all forgot what a gentleman he is and how they used to crowd around his medical practice for the stupidest ailment and walk out, most of them, without paying a single cent. He was not a traditur then.
I think it’s the latter. Vassallo can’t be compared to that snake AST.
Daphne is it possible that Joseph Muscat not realizing that Franco is playing him like a fiddle? Franco is really making him look bad.
In light of what is happening, Muscat should withdraw the two motions and don’t continue to fall into Franco’s political trap.
Waiting for prattikament PM, radio & TV presenter to answer.
Adrian Vassallo is a dedicated family doctor who does not shirk from maintaining his integrity and sound principles.
That’s what you get, doc, when you are honest and frank enough to appear on the media and pour out your grievances. Poor Labour! They made such a show with Franco and now they are findiing tehemselves in the same embarrassing situation.
[Daphne – Hardly. It was Franco, not the Nationalist Party, who was in an embarrassing situation. And it is Labour, not Adrian Vassallo, which is in an embarrassing situation. Vassallo’s behaviour can’t be compared to Debono’s, by any stretch of the imagination.]
“Jew taghmel kif nghid jien jew tigi mghajjar”. Wow sounds a lot like you Daphne.
“Jew taghmel l-affarijiet kif ghandek taghmilhom, jew tigi kkritikat”. Hekk imissek ghidt, eldarion.
Imissek tinnota li l-Labour Party jaqbez fuq il-‘band wagon’ imma qatt ma jkun hu li jerfa subghajh u jipprovdi l-karru w l-banda. Dejjem jinqeda b’haddiehor.
Alex Sceberras Trigona u John Attard Montaldo puliti u tal-pepe ukoll.
Mediocre people feel threatened unless they are surrounded by others of the same mediocrity.
If a political party operates on no principles or shifts its goal-posts according to its whims, feels threatened by someone who has strong principles and adheres to them.
The PN are not much better than the LP when it comes to dissenting members. Though the LP tends to be nastier.
Just mention cases please.
This one!
Paul Carachi wasn’t nasty when he wanted a separate seat from his party and Cettina Darmenia Brincat wasn’t either when she nipped divorce in the bud and not even Ms Coleiro Preca was when she disagreed with Joseph when attacked by her people even though there was a free vote on divorce.
The only dissenting boy (Joe Debono Grech) got a public hug from Joseph after being nasty.
I really like John Attard Montaldo. He’s so nice and charming. I would never vote of him, as long as he remains part of the PL but he has such je-ne-sais-quoi which makes him quite a world apart from his odious colleagues.
The PL does not deserve to have one single gentleman of the old school like Adrian Vassallo within its ranks.
On the other hand it deserves hundreds of ASTs plus thousands of JAMs for good measure.
Communism and dictatorship. Two words that describe the mentality of the Labour party precisely.
Are you watching Xarabank, Daphne? It’s about Dear Dom.
[Daphne – No.]
You wouldn’t believe the drivel – Yana didn’t have the guts to go and Toni Abela and Wenzu Mintoff are the usual apologists.
Abela had the cheek to compare the government now with the Labour Party in the late 80s.
And also that PBS is similar to Xandir Malta of the 70s and 80s.
I watched Xarabank and no journalist worth his salt seems to have noticed that Beppe Fenech Adami challenged Toni Abela and Wenzu Mintoff to devulge what was said during secret meetings both had with Beppe and his father (and probably others) after they resigned from the Labour Party.
Beppe showed his mettle when he openly challenged them to let him divulge what was said, but they refused.
The subject was raised by Toni Abela, who seemed to have selective memory.
There was a rowdy pro-Labour audience, with the usual interruptions by those who ‘agreed’ that during Mintoff’s hold on Malta, grave mistakes were made.
Toni repeated the word “hazin” several times and agreed with Beppe on several counts. Yana should now take note of what her deputy leader and her cousin admitted in public about this part of our political history.
Now she can check the facts with her ‘colleagues’ in her father’s party.
Toni Abela should be man enough to allow Beppe to tell us this interesting part of our history.
Beppe will not divulge what was said between him and the two clowns probably because it’s their word against his.
It could not possibly be because of a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ since the two cannot be classified as such, therefore Beppe would be free to tell us what really went on and what was said. Too bad!
[Daphne – Angus, the fact that the other party to a conversation is a clown or similar does not release one from the obligation to keep what was said between you.]
Watching Xarabank: I never knew the Catholic Church was a democratically elected institution. As per Wenzu Mintoff, Malta had two dictators: the British (they were occupiers) and Archbishop Gonzi.
Yana Mintoff was supposed to make an appearance on Xarabank tonight but didn’t bother to show up.
Is this how they plan to keep their promises/commitments when they are elected?
Or perhaps she’s still suffering from brainfreeze from a slush she consumed on 1st May…
Mela dalwaqt johrog verzjoni gdida tad-diska tieghu ‘Ghax Ahna Maghqudin’ Axisa.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. If Labour wins the election on the back of promising to be everything to everyone, they’re going to have half deal with half their MPs turning into Franco Debono clones.
I happened to know Adrian Vassallo very well. I did not always agree with his ideas but he is a true gentleman.
He is someone you can engage with in a serious discussion. He respects other people’s ideas and I always found him to be very fair. It is really a pity that Labour Party did not appreciate his potential.
There you are. Case closed. The two tribes can now have a credit swap, just like the FED and the ECB. Adrian Vassallo could stand as newly monetised liabilities, while Franco Debono plays toxic assets.
Hmmm, din tqila wisq ghat-tfal… Imhatra tiddilitjaha wkoll!
Kemm int bravu, Kev. Ghalhekk qatt ma swejt xejn fil-korp.
Issa sirna bhal John Grisham, niktbu il-fiction.
Thobb il-fiction, Troy. Hawn ha: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/have-you-heard-about-the-16-trillion-dollar-bailout-the-federal-reserve-handed-to-the-too-big-to-fail-banks
The original report submitted by the Federal Reserve is here (they were forced to do so by Ron Paul’s 2009 congressional bill which, miraculously, passed):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/60553686/GAO-Fed-Investigation#outer_page_144
That takes you to page 144, concerning lending to European banks (at 0.5% for them to lend it to governments at loan shark rates). You can then CTR+F to search for “european central bank” – or go directly to page 214 onwards (that’s from pg 201 on document) – Table 24 tells you that there was a ‘dollar swap’ of over $8 trillion with the ECB.
In short, the ‘fiction’ is that the global banking cartel creates its money in dollars at the Federal Reserve (in trillions), to lend to the cartel’s crony (BIG) banks at very, very low rates. Meanwhile, indebted eurozone countries continue to be bled to death, not least through perpetual usury.
Ahleb, Guz! L-iskjavi minghalihom li hielsa!
@ kev
“Meanwhile, indebted eurozone countries continue to be bled to death, not least through perpetual usury”.
What about indebted countries outside the eurozone?
Where did the bank failures begin? Within the eurozone? Certainly not.
If you classify usury as ‘perpetual’ it means that it has always existed, is now and will continue in the future.
Are you one of the few that still think that if Malta stayed out of the EU we would have been better off, more financially secure and enjoying a better life than we had in the 70s and 80s?
That era was no fiction but real misery brought about by your glorious Labour Party.
Instead of cutting and pasting, why can you not engage your own brain and make honest comparisons between life in the 70s and today, that is, if you are old enough to have lived those years or at least, you respect evidence and the experiences of those who did?
“The aim, waqqa lil gvern Nazzjonalista minn hemm umbad naraw”
They really have no idea what to do when (if) in government.
Until now I hoped against hope and against all signs that showed otherwise, that they must have some sort of plan.
Now we know from internal sources, that they have NONE, NOTHING, NIENTE, NADA, RIEN.
Scary stuff this is!
As I’ve said before, on this blog, it’s the PL who convince me to vote PN more and more with each passing day.
But they do, Berta, they do and that is the scariest of all.
Their plan is simple – promise magic, declare themselves ‘safe’ with SMEs, students and the whole enchilada, but once elected they do the exact opposite.
Those who trust them do so at their own peril!
Tal-Botom iltaqghet ma Tom Hjenks.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/sportsdetails/sports/football/Tom-Hanks-an-Inter-Milan-fan-20120511
Joseph Muscat, quoted on timesofmalta.com: “Young people, he said, should make do without the inferiority complex previous generations suffered from due to the small size of the country.”
[Daphne – Make do? Whose mistaken use of the expression ‘make do’ was that – The Times or our future prime minister’s?]
Wasn’t it his old master who said that the Maltese were “Makku”. He should realise (fat chance) by now that it was successive PN governments who gave opportunities to our youth
If that’s what he thinks, he should vote PN.
Qieghed sew, jitkellem ghalih.
By the same token, it’s interesting to see that the very same Nationalist supporters who are superficially shocked by the circumstances leading to Adrian Vassallo’s decision, are the very sames one who tore Franco Debono to shreds on the internet and elsewhere.
He hardly sounded pulit or tal-pepe on Bondi+. Anzi, quite the opposite.
[Daphne – Yes, I know. That’s what happens sometimes when you’ve mixed with the wrong people for too long. But he is, I can vouch for that because I’m a friend of his brother. And their father was George Bonello du Puis’s righthand man.]
On election day of 1996 most of his illiterate constituents living in the government housing estate voted for him wholeheartedly because he’s a kindhearted and caring doctor. That’s what they said while we helped them to vote Number ONE… for him.
I love it when you censor me, raw nerve and all that.
You’re as dictatorial as Muscat, Gonzi and Vassallo put together.
It’s Attard MontalTo. Even his own Labour press spell it with a ‘d’.
Adrian Vassallo is one of the nicest and most honest professionals I have had the privilige of knowing.
My heart went out to him when on Bondi+ he referred to his five children and then said four, because one of them died soon after birth.