“The ham actors who bluffed their way through the catcalls, jeers and rotten vegetables”
Karmenu Vella and Leo Brincat
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Francis Saliba M.D.
Yesterday, 18:06
It is obvious that Labour is obsessed with the idea that the mere of passage of time,and the public’s ennui with watching the same ministerial faces, entitles them automatically to a turn at governing even if there is no indication that they have something new and better to offer. Woe betide Malta unless the electorate disillusions them.
They demand, as of right, another spell of ruling according to a recipe that the electorate rejected in one general election after another, or to be trusted with the reins of government when they have no recipe at all, only promises, more promises and yet more promises.
They do not feel the need to convince the electorate that they really are a “new” labour party that disowns its dismal record. Instead ther are making it pretty damn clear that nothing has changed. It is the same horribly tasting mixture as before and just as harmful.
The cast promised for the next coming performance consists of the same ham actors who were booed off the stage two decades ago – twice in succession actually because after the first occasion they bluffed their way through the catcalls, the jeers and the rotten vegetables thrown at the stage by a furiously disappointed audience
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Lest we forget – most of the so called moderate and progressive Labour candidates were accomplices in crimes committed under the Mintoff regime.
Most of the new faces are nothing but their genetically modified offsprings but nonetheless as vicious and diabolical.
Hello Daphne,
Your write-up in today’s TMI reflects the mood and feelings of many a Maltese. I think it’s an excellent piece. Thank you.
Watch this video Daphne:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/multimedia/2010/12/101214_sudan_clashes.shtml
Dr Saliba is always spot on with his views and I agree with him most of the time.
Unfortunately the PN’s detachment from the public and the lack of engagement will probably lead to a LP victory.
Mr. Bonnici, can you be more specific when you say what are “the PN’s detachment from the public and the lack of engagement”?
You sound as “l’uccello del mal augurio”.
All MLP exponents, including leaders, have Mintoff’s characteristics:
*Do not practice what they preach
*Personal ambition is what keeps them going
*Preaching against the foreigner, but longing to be the ones to live away from Malta
*Forcing marxist ideolog while living as champagne socialists
*Demonising opponents and unscrouplously stooping to the the basest of levels
*Leave a wake of disaster while trying to governing, and even in opposition
No wonder Mintoff is their only idol.
No truer words have been said.
Joseph Muscat’s speech of this morning was pure vintage Rabble-rousing in good old Mintoffian fashion, with plenty of gratuitous calls for the ”suldati tal azzar” to come forward ,and the old cliche of ‘Malta l ewwel u qabel kollox”. An honourable mention was also made of a certain Nestu Laiviera.
What next? A promise to award Gieh ir-Repubblika to all the aristokrazija tal haddiema who articipated in burning down the Times building , beat up vulnerable citizens at tal Barrani , broke into the leader of the opposition’s house and ransacked the Curia and Law courts and replacing RCC with KMB?
Joseph Muscat is dangerous. If Dr Gonzi will not take immediate and decisive action to control his errant mps and woo back the lost sheep, POVRA MALTA U POVRI AKTAR ULIEDNA L GHADA TAL-ELEZZJONI LI JMISS.
Then we will see Malta coverend in red, the red of the old Mintoffian Socialist rag with the old torch.
Anyone heard Dr Joseph Muscat’s speech this morning?
The progressive and moderate mask is off now, and most definitely so.
After the conspiracy with Botox Jeff and the Mullet paid off, he no longer needs to resort to selected quotes from St Francis of Assisi.
Rabid Mintoffian rethoric is back in fashion as will soon be the kukkardi homor, and the glorious blood red flag of ‘Bongu Malta Socjalista’ fame.
Watch the colour blue start getting edited out in favour of the colour red.
Incidentally, less we forget Karmenu Vella’s driver was Karmenu Fauugia “il-botom”, a man implicated in the shooting at the Tarxien PN club on 1st December 1986.
“Quod non fecerunt Barbari, fecerunt Barberini.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120624/local/Magistrate-orders-probe-into-officers-behaviour-at-St-Julian-s-police-station.425635
Nice hair:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=467734629920758&set=o.38556918510&type=1&theater
qisu artist – warda hamra go halqu jonqsu u malajr tahsbu xi sex symbol
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-44863699/stock-photo-white-poodle-puppy-hold-red-flower-isolated-on-white-background.html
The problem with Maltese politics is that voters who lived under Labour’s rule in the 70s and 80s have no choice but to continue voting PN against their wishes, to avoid the horrendous abuse of human rights and democracy of which Labour has a notorious track record.
I do not wish to vote for a party that denied Maltese citizens bar those who resided abroad the right to divorce until recently, a party that mixes religion with politics, whose leader voted against divorce in parliament giving his religious beliefs precedence over the will of the people, a party with so much internal strife, yet whose leader struggles on without calling an election. I do not subscribe to PN ideals and methodologies at all.
However, I do acknowledge that the PN has done wonders for job creation and has created wealth especially for professionals through education and the job opportunties brought about by EU membership. I work for a foreign company and like the cosmopolitan lifestyle I have.
I have no problem competing for jobs with Sicilians and other EU nationals both here and abroad. My experience of the PL has always been of a dictatorial, backward looking regime. I envy today’s fresh graduates who were spared the trauma of living under a Labour government.
That is not to say I am happy to be voting PN as their conservative political ideology does not go down well with me. The trouble is what choice do I have? Risk voting Labour and my foreign employer moving out of Malta leaving me without a job? Risk losing my EU passport with all the freedom it has given me?
I am seriously considering not voting in the forthcoming general elections but the memories of life under Labour still haunt me and Labour has not yet proved that it has changed, or is competent. How can I vote for a party whos e deputy leader says shock absovers instead of shock absorbers? A party that used scaremongering tactics to keep Malta out of the EU and in middle ages.
Do I have to keep voting PN for as long as I live just to preserve my lifestyle? Is this what a democracy is all about? It’s time both parties offered their politicians early retirement and brought in fresh blood.
The problem with Maltese democracy and Maltese law as you rightly point out is that we don’t have a grasp on the spirit of democracy or the law and compared to the spirit of fairness in the UK and the lucid reasoning of the average English person, we are lagging behind in the middle ages.
In short, Muscat’s LP with his entourage does not present a credible alternative to the Nationalist Party so as to provide a desirable democratic alternation of government. The electorate cannot intelligently vote for a political party that is “new” in name only. The gamble has no chance to provide a better, or a “just as good” government. It would be a retrograde step to hell.
Kif ma jisthux. Jahsbux li ghadhom jifilhu jaqilbu kull m’hawn?
Imma għall-inqas il-Barbari u il-Barberini ma kienux l-istess nies. Dan huwa iktar il-każ li ngħidu, ” Jekk il-ħanżir taqtagħlu bemdu, ħanżir jibqa'”.
Il-punt hu li Barberini (Mugliette ,JPOS u Debono) irnexxilhom fejn ma irnexxilhomx il Barbari (labour) ., jaghtu gambetta lil aqwa rapresentant ta Malta fl EU u joholqu disguid fil PN..
‘Woe betide Mowqa’, indeed. The serfs believe that laws are still enacted by that glorified committee of 65, whose main function now is to transpose EU law and comply with EU diktat.
And they’re right, in a way. For the most crucial laws and policies are beyond the realm of tribal factions, happily warming their seats at the kazin parlamentari Malti, plotting their next move towards achieving their goal: seizing the power to administer that portion of taxpayers’ money the fiefdom is allowed to keep.
With the collapse of debt-enslaved nation states, the Debt Union is here to stay. It will be held together through repression and centralised control, but the serfs will not suffer, for they are shielded by blissful ignorance, guarded by media swill and protected by euro glitter. The culprit will always be the governing tribe; and the solution will be sought in the competing tribe.
The fiscal treaty, the ESM treaty, the “six-pack”, the “two-pack”, EU economic governance, the central banking ponzi scheme, the global banking cartel, debt enslavement…? All too boring to be true. Let’s call that ‘conspiracy theory’ and avoid having to wake up to our ignornance. Long live the EU fiefdom of Mowqa – where the petty is grand, and the grand is bland.
Ahleb, Guz! The slaves are fully acclimatised to serfdom.