Comments on: More doublespeak from Franco and Jeffrey

By: Qeghdin Sew

Qeghdin Sew — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:41:10 +0000

With apologies to Fr. Mark Montebello, I thought it was him in the picture.

By: PhiliP

PhiliP — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:13:03 +0000

The only way Malta and the electorate will not experience another comical situation as we experienced during these last four years is by amending the Constitution by adding three members of parliament instead of one when the situation arises.

This is of benefit both to the PN and the PL. Although members of the PL are more disciplined to those of the PN. A case in point, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, Adrian Vassallo, Joe Abela, etc.

These all expressed their feelings against the PL but when they came to terms, they pulled the party’s rope.

By: WhoamI?

WhoamI? — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:09:34 +0000

And he was already experimenting with foundation and concealers.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:48:51 +0000

…….they will “support the government until the end of this legislature”.

I feel pretty sure they will.

The minute they don’t they will end up with nothing.

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:00:55 +0000

The present affront to the principle of democratic rule by the majority is bound to persist as long as the Malta electorate is roughly divided down the middle producing governments with a majority of one,or two, parliamentary seats. .

The dominant two political parties in Malta have already conceded the need to modify strict proportional representation in order to ensure a majority of one seat to the party polling the majority of votes cast irrespective of the distortions introduced by malicious gerrymandering. It is urgently required that our proprtional representation be further modified to ensure a pragmatically useful working majority of more than one seat, perhaps five more seats. Otherwise we will continue to have a sham democratic government in which the key to power will continue to be vested in the unworthy hands of one or two discreditable members of parliament devoid of any loyalty to those who voted for them and to the political party that had promoted their candidacy.

For the benefit of the usual fools who seem to be always hiding in ambush to accuse me of blinkered partisanship, may I point out what should be obvious to any intelligent person. This proposal is strictly non-partisan and applies equitably to any political party whether it occupies the government benches or the the opposition benches.

By: FP

FP — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:59:01 +0000

“He is angry because he knows that he has absolutely no chance of becoming party leader, and some months ago 6% of Nationalist voters indicated me as a potential party leader while he did not even feature in the survey,” he said. – The Times, today.

You had analysed this joker to a t, Daphne.

If the executive approves this jerk’s candidacy, they majteżwel go bury themselves, the lot of them.

By: AJS

AJS — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:53:17 +0000

Perhaps I am repeating what has already been said. If that is the case, I apologise but I have been out of touch for a couple of months now.

My questions are: Isn’t such a situation extremely dangerous for any party rather than merely the present government? Aren’t such MPs and others like them who may already exist in the Labour camp undermining our parliamentary democracy?

Imagine a situation where such a majority persists over two elections. How could a country move forward when you have a set of opportunists taking advantage of a one seat majority to forward their personal agendas?

Wouldn’t we need some form of constitutional safeguards here? I mean the proverbial poop is hitting a giant fan in the EU and these people are resorting to resolving their petty grievances in public and embarrassing the Maltese nation. Has our culture degenerated to the extent that we cannot see beyond our parochialism?