Ir-ragel ta’ Simone Cini (to use L-Orizzont’s preferred terminology in my regard)
My husband heads the Airline Pilots Association in its battle with Air Malta and GonziPN
Timesofmalta.com reports today:
Pilots are unimpressed by the government’s sense of ‘mission accomplished’ after Brussels approved Air Malta’s multi-million euro rescue plan.
Sounding very disappointed, Domenic Azzopardi, president of the Airline Pilots Association, said the plan was “a cover-up”.
“This plan is Air Malta’s condemnation. Just like what happened in the Eastern bloc countries, Air Malta will be allowed to fail and then privatised on the cheap to some businessman two years down the line,” he said.
Domenic Azzopardi’s statements as president of the Airline Pilots Association, in its ongoing battle with Air Malta, would be so much more credible if he were not married to Super One’s Simone Cini.
I always stuck up for the pilots. But when he took over, I stopped. I know he is Simone Cini’s husband and I can’t help framing his motivation in that context, however unfair and unjust it might be.
Everything he does and says seems to be politically motivated, and it doesn’t help when he joins Tony Zarb and the GWU on their anti-gvern protesti in Valletta.
But then it is equally unfair and unjust of the newspapers not to point this out to their readers. This is information their readers should really have so as to be able to better assess what he says.
They shouldn’t have to find out by reading this website.
If Domenic Azzopardi were Mr Daphne Caruana Galizia and not Mr Simone Cini, you can rest assured that everybody would have to know about it, preferably in the headline, and newspapers would consider this actually newsworthy – even though I don’t work for a political party and Mrs Domenic Azzopardi does.
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Some background, via a fellow member of the Evil Clique, who I see perhaps three times a year.
http://loubondi.blogspot.com/2011/07/domenic-azzopardi-doesnt-want-72.html
You’re perfectly right. On top of all this, somewhere in The Times he is reported as saying that the rescue plan has been kept hidden from them by the government. So how can he/his colleagues know that it is “Air Malta’s condemnation”?
Knowing Dominic and some of the people who surround him, I believe that they have a chip on their shoulder and an ingrained hate of anything or anyone who is not Labour.
Even though they are very comfortably off (pilots like Dominic earn more than ambassadors, a very relevant point at the moment), they still believe that the government owes them a living.
They exhibit a typical Mintoffian mentality. No amount of pointing out how good they have it, no amount of pointing out how the odds have been stacked against Air Malta, and no amount of analytical reasoning will change their reasoning.
I can almost guarantee that should Labour win the forthcoming general election, we will not hear one more critical word from Dominic Azzopardi.
Yes because someone will probably kick his teeth in. When my father said he did not want to join the GWU back in the old days, he was suspended without pay.
What gets me about these people is their latent, no check that, overt antagonism to anything even remotely positive.
They have no idea of compromise. If they gain power, we will again be welcoming North Korea, Iran and all of their ilk to our shores.
Daphne, quick hurry up – on Affari Taghna Manuel Mallia is telling us how he met Joseph Muscat because he has twins too, though his are boys. Then during a New Year’s Eve party Joseph asked him, in front of a lot of people, to contest the elections.
[Daphne – Yes, I just saw that.]
Saw the bit where Mallia boasts about how he tries to get his clients to jump the queue on hospital lists?
As if the other people on the waiting lists may not be urgent cases as his clients are.
What barefaced cheek.
[Daphne – No, I missed that because I popped across to write about the other bit. And in any case, I find it really difficult to look at him, because he is so slimy and disgusting. No wonder he has to make it worth a woman’s while.]
Labour candidates, especially Manuel Mallia, are only meeting poor people who are full of problems which will only be solved when Labour is in government.
Bully for you for pointing out that the pilots’ union chief is Mr Simone Cini.
For some unknown reason, the newspapers are very careful not to mention this.
The problem with hardline PN/PL supporters is that they tend to believe supporters of the other party are all evil.
Thank God although I already know which party will receive my vote this time round, I still know many people from both sides of the political spectrum, and hard as it may seem to believe they are all valid persons, all have their good points and bad points.
It is time to grow up, we are still a primitive nation, it’s a pity that even well educated persons cannot overcome these prejudices. Grow up.
[Daphne – Yes, Grace, you occasionally pop in here to say this. This time round it will be Labour, as always.]
That’s why we vote Nationalist because we grew up under your ‘ moviment’ with the same faces.
A couple of days ago The Times ran this piece on poverty without telling its readers that the author is going to be a candidate for the Labour Party.
The newspaper only labelled him as ‘the founding chairman of the Institute of Family Therapy Malta’ giving the impression that he is above politics.
Not that anyone with a modicum of intelligence would believe that he has no political connection.
His attempts to prove that Malta is starving are laughable.
He says that voluntary organisations prove that Malta is full of beggars, conveniently ignoring the fact that any organisation, whether run for profit or not, needs to generate income and it is not the government’s business to provide it with it.
A Labour mind never loses the opportunity to contradict itself though.
In the same breath that he uses voluntary organisations as proof of poverty, he admits that these organisations have been collecting record amounts of money in the last couple of years.
I wonder where he thinks all this money is coming from.
People volunteer because they have the time, money and luxury to do so. People who can’t afford a basic meal don’t run organisations aiming to help cancer stricken children or animal sanctuaries (both eligible to get funds from l-Istrina).
The government is apparently also to blame for bad business decisions taken by individuals, for lifelong decisions not to work to take care of one’s elderly parents and the value of gold on the international market.
Charlie Azzoppardi leaves the best bit till last.
‘the Labour government had found the same scenario in 1971 and eradicated poverty completely, restoring dignity to the people.’
Where does Labour find these dregs?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120625/opinion/The-new-faces-of-poverty.425834
He’s an ex policeman who prides himself on being self-taught.
Dominic Azzopardi was also elected in the local council elections held in 1994, 1997, 2000
http://www.maltadata.com/
He was also the mayor for sometime.
He was Labour deputy mayor of Marsascala from 1994 to 1997, and mayor from 1997 to 2000.
Issa kif jilta’ l-Labour isir chief pilot and Airmalta tiehu r-ruh zgur. Promise.
Adrian Vassallo summed it all up in just one sentence:
‘L-ghan tal-moviment hu li jwaqqa’ l-gvern Nazzjonalista…imbghad naraw.’