They’re not irresponsible: it’s just that their standards are so much lower
If a Super One reporter can do the prime minister's job, then yes, I suppose anyone can do Richard Cachia Caruana's - well, that's how Joseph Muscat sees it.
Somebody said to me earlier that Labour is hugely irresponsible to have lynched one of Malta’s most crucial public servants, particularly at this juncture.
I said that the accusation of irresponsibility is unfair, because with Labour, it is very clearly a case of ‘they know not what they do’.
As anti-Europeans, and with very poor standards generally, they fail to appreciate the scope (not the Maltese ‘skop’), depth and breadth of the permanent representative to the EU’s duties, or Richard Cachia Caruana’s rightfully legendary competence.
They think that one person is good as another, that if a person can do a job then anyone can do it, and that a job is any old job and mhux xorta.
Everything they do is shallow and mostly shoddy, like the Biblical painted tomb – smart blue tie on a Mintoffjan with corrupt values – and they think that’s all that’s necessary to get by.
They really, but really, have no idea. It’s all been pearls before swine, and now the swine think that anyone can be a pearl ‘jekk jigi t-tern taghhom’.
Just look at what the Labour leader said tonight:
He was sure, Dr Muscat said, that there were several competent people who could take over Mr Cachia Caruana’s role.
Actually, no, Dr Muscat. He’s one of a kind, and I say this from the perspective of somebody who’s seen out more politicians and corporate executives than you’ve had hot dinners.
But your Freudian slip is interesting, unless your words were badly translated: yes, the consensus from those in the know is that it would indeed take several competent people to replace him.
Damn shame you couldn’t keep him yourself, unless you’re planning on sending the second Mrs Pullicino Orlando instead. You know, with her vast experience working in sales for Midi plc, Montebello Brothers’ develoopment at Mistra Heights, and now, selling Yellow Pages and hoping for much more thanks to her consort’s public demonstration of….well, let’s not be rude, and call it love.
There are few things more pathetic than the sight of a man debasing himself in this manner.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is the new Duke of Windsor, and not for the reasons he imagines.
As for Joseph Muscat, he’s a Super One reporter in line to run the country. So of course he would think that anyone can do Richard Cachia Caruana’s job. If a Super One reporter can do the prime minister’s job, why not?
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What do you expect from the party that thought it would be a good idea to send a barely literate civil servant to Washington to serve as Malta’s ambassador – a man who thought he could save money by sharing a house with a taxi driver? The story may be apocryphal, but the dreadful truth is that it’s plausible.
Who was this specimen?
I watched TX this evening. There was porky-faced Balzan trying very hard and very unconvincingly to excuse JPO for using the House of Representatives the other day, not in the service of the nation but as a school-yard to settle old scores.
JPO seems to be his latest fav headline grabber. Is he competing with Cyrus for JPO’s notice?
I roared with laughter when Balzan referred to Debono as a capon, or rather as some one who has lost his “kukki”, which is more or less the same.
[Daphne – I don’t find that amusing. The only reason he called him one, and Jeffrey insulted him before he began speaking in parliament on Monday, is because he didn’t cooperate in voting against Richard Cachia Caruana. If he had, he would have been Saviour’s hero.]
Laughter can be ironical too, and not necessarily the result of being amused.
PS. TX’s Miriam Dalli must be reading this blog. Her make- up seems to have lost that mid-eastern hint you referred to some weeks ago.
And was she still sporting a hairstyle like a Pippi Longstockings?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/theres-pippi-longstocking-on-super-one-right-now/
The naive dwarf continues to exhibit his stupidity. His incredulous comment that anyone,no matter how incompetent, can fill any hole perfectly illustrates his Mintoffian upbringing. We’re on the road to ruin.
I can think of a few holes where he can put his Mintoffian upbringing.
Franco Debono is probably on his list. He can fill ANY position.
Joseph Muscat must first describe exactly what ‘competent’ means to him.
Competent means being able to count from 1 to 10, use a keyboard and preferably have ‘steely soldiers’ DNA in your genes.
The damned mentality of “imut Papa u jilhaq iehor”. So many people don’t get that Einstein, Mozart, Da Vinci, et al, were not replaced. It’s all part of the Mintoff quasi-commie culture, that everybody is equal.
Leonardo.
Not Da Vinci.
Better still, Leonardo Da Vinci.
On TX this evening, Saviour Balzan had nothing much to say about the scandal of an ex-green politician of the year trying to despoil Mistra Valley .
He was not of that frame of mind a mere 4 years ago .
Wonder what brought on this sudden change.
touché
That last paragraph encapsulates the typical Labourite’s thought process to a T. If Labourites’ thoughts can ever be elevated to be called a “process” at all.
“….they know not what they do.”
I sincerely hope HE won’t forgive them, ever. May they rot in hell.
Part of the problem is that we don’t know Mr Cachia Caruana as we know, say, Carm Mifsud Bonnici. There won’t be any understanding of what happened, not even among strong Nationalist supporters.
But then again, he was a civil servant.
May I just remind you all that Malta got the best EU accession deal among the 12 candidates at the time. And back then Cachia Caruana was the country’s chief negotiator.
I still insist and I hope someone will clarify: the Cachia Caruana motion should not have been accepted for discussion by the Speaker. Ambassadors are answerable to the Minister, not to Parliament – perhaps someone can clarify this.
Yes, you are so right. I did think that the motion should not have been accepted for discussion by the Speaker in the first place.
Could this have been done or was Dr. Gonzi cornered in some way? Parliament has set a precedent – now Ambassadors and civil servants can he hauled up before Parliament at the whim of a political party who feels threatened by them or does not agree with their policies.
It makes this all the more depressing when one considers that one the parliamentarians does not even have a vote to his name as he replaced another MP who was duly elected.
In my mind only 33 Labour MPs represent the electorate – the other is just a second zero.
Read Daphne’s article in the Malta Independent, today.
Richard Cachia Caruana doesn’t need my advice but if I were him I would sue the Clerk of the House for accepting the motion. It doesn;t mean he will go back to being an ambassador but I would fight it legally and clear matters.
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Labour has just presented a list of names to be struck off the electoral register. After having proposed Yana Bland as a prospective candidate.
They’re willing to exclude people, in the name of a movement which refuses partisan politics, how absurd is that?
Issa jaghmlu kif kien qal Alfred Sant, “ibazwru ftit ‘l hawn u jbazwru ftit ‘l hemm”.