Comments on: I just can’t believe they haven’t changed for the better

By: sasha

sasha — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:47:43 +0000

It is revolting to even think that they still exist but more so that they may still rule. It is even more disgusting to even conceptualise that the man on the street just hasn’t even understood this.

The reality is that these people and their cohorts have been acting this way in Government departments from 1987-2012. The issue is what did we do about it and what can we do to stop it now.

By: The other hatter

The other hatter — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:48:58 +0000

Meanwhile, in the other Mexico, polls indicate that the PRI, a.k.a. the political “dinosaurios” who ruled that country through patronage and corruption for 71 years, are poised to make a stunning comeback in the presidential election on July 1.

At least in that case, critics have tried to explain the return of the dinosaurs by showing that Mexico’s flirtation with democracy, following the PRI’s massive defeat in 2000, has failed to raise standards of living or strengthen democratic institutions by any significant degree.

What’s Malta’s excuse going to be when it returns for yet another taste of strident Mintoffianism?

By: etil

etil — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:46:05 +0000

‘How in Satan’s name have these individuals survived in politics for a quarter of a century after 1987, when we thought they had
thrown into the dustbin of history?’

You know the saying: ‘the devil protects his own’.

By: etil

etil — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:39:45 +0000

In reply to Ken il malti. Actually the hated the electorate that did not vote for them even more so, now.

By: GD

GD — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:50:21 +0000

iT IS GOOD TO REMEMBER THIS CARDINAL POINT;

Democracy , human rights , free speech. justice and work as seen from the point of view of Joseph’s Muscat’S Moviment Laburista have little in common with what we have been accustomed to since 1987.

i will be proved right within a week of Joseph Muscat; denizens crawling up the staircase of Castille.

By: Edward Caruana Galizia

Edward Caruana Galizia — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:33:56 +0000

Did anyone else catch the article in The Times about how Dr Muscat has more proof of a clique in the PN because Dr Gonzi described Mr Cachia Caruana as irreplaceable.

“For while in a movement members could step in for one another, in a clique one only worked and looks out for oneself.”

Another one a victim of his own ignorance and inability to understand idiomatic English. However he is the leader and possibly our PM one day, which makes all of this all the more worrying.

By: Harry Purdie (in Switzerland)

Harry Purdie (in Switzerland) — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:34:51 +0000

In reply to ciccio. Jurassic Park has arrived in Malta. Fossilized dinosaurs have reared their ugly heads on the rock. We are now in deep shit.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:26:48 +0000

In reply to ds. The electorate of 2013 is going to have a very important mission: give the Labour wolves the boot once and for all and let's not see their socialist Mintoffian faces any more.

By: WhoamI?

WhoamI? — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:47:43 +0000

Il-meritocracy l-aqwa.

Dan ezempju ta’ meritocrazija.

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:32:44 +0000

Democracy as practised by the MLP was degraded into an obscene word devoid of elementary justice and actually a tyrranical suppression of fundamental human rights such as the freedom of peaceful assembly without being gassed and shot up by thugs and state police, the freedom to hold and express opinions in newspapers without their printing presses being burnt to the ground and the freedom of access to independent law courts free from manipulation of the presiding judges or suppression even of the Constitutionsl Court.