BONGU MALTA SOCJALISTA: the prime minister with his three rival ministers of finance
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July 9, 2012 at 10:25am
Here’s the crack team that’s going to pilot Malta through the next wave of economic crises and European turbulence: Karmenu Il-Guy Vella (a relic of the Dom Mintoff years), Charles DNA Mangion (the property speculators’ favourite land deals notary), an ex Super One reporter, and Edward ‘Tajjar Sparks’ Scicluna.
May God rest our souls.
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Joseph Cuschieri is an ex-Super One reporter too – his bio-note proudly says that he was Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici’s personal reporter.
A nightmare to unfold – beware before it’s too late.
If yesterday’s survey results in The Sunday Times are anything to go by, then the Maltese do not deserve any different.
This particularly goes to the 2008 PN voters who are switching their vote to labour, and those PN supporters who will stay at home and will not vote. They are going to land the rest of us with the consequences of their personal grudges.
While you cannot discount what was shown in the polls this Sunday, it’s definitely not an assurance that the Labour Party will win.
This is clearly shone by the high percentage rate of people who are as yet undecided on their voting preference. If I’m not mistaken, the most accurate pulse can be taken six weeks prior to an election date.
The PN has a lot of work to do. Let’s hope for all our sakes that they dig in and get some results.
And in a couple of years, those same people will pretend they never switched their vote or stayed at home, and were loyal all along, and they’ll say they couldn’t wait for the PN to be back in government.
We’ve seen it all before in 1996 – 1998. Some of them are the same people.
Yes, the people do indeed get the government they deserve.
Three blind mice.
Thursday at the PN headquarters: appeasing and more appeasing hasn’t worked.
The committee must finally take a strong stand.
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last” – Winston Churchill.
And head straight to the opposition benches. Great move, eh!
It should be clear by now that JPO’s loyalty lies with the Labour Party.
Now his mission is to cause as much damage as possible to the PN. The situation has become really unsustainable.
What will the PN do when JPO takes up some other populist issue and threatens the goverment with it?
It will make Gonzi and the PN look even weaker than it looks already, something which should be avoided before the general election at all costs.
Three spokesmen on finance and the economy. It is a clear admission by Labour that no one of them is up to it alone.
No. That’s just snake-oil Joseph’s way of keeping everyone happy until he gets what he wants.
Jospeh Muscat mentioned that they do not see eye to eye with European Socialists and he implied that they are closer to socialist parties in other continents (and hence deliberately they did not pay their fees to Socialist International).
This is very telling. While the European socialist parties seem to be quite centrists, the MLP is still intrinsically anti-European.
The other non-European socialist parties that I can think of, are the South American ones, which are extremely militant and represent the old school of socialism that was predominant in Europe during the 70s (there aren’t any organized ideological parties en-masse in Africa and Asia).
Sorry…..Bongu Malta Leminija Estrema.
Three turkeys vying for the Finance Minister’s portfolio. Only one gets it. Voila, two pissed off turkeys.
Don’t forget little Leo (ex 1966 Finance Minister) lying in the wings (also pissed off, allowed to only play with soot and smog).
Now think of all the ministerial portfolios promised by little Joey to all the others who will be running. Voila, at least twenty-five pissed off backbenchers.
Think Gonzi has problems with three assholes? Wait till clueless little Joey takes the reins. Let the back-stabbing begin.
Too right. “I have the luxury of choice,” Joseph recently told an interviewer.
Indeed.
Bi tlieta ghandek ghazla, ahjar minn bicca wiehed li ghandna llum. Tibzax mill-verita’ , gibu dan il-kumment.
Morton’s fork.
Timesofmalta.com reported the following:
The corporation last week published a list of EU-wide fuel prices, with Maltese prices figuring among Europe’s lowest. But the listed prices included fuel tax – something which left Dr Muscat livid.
When one factored out tax, fuel prices in Malta were actually among the highest in Europe, he argued.
“If this were a form three economics question, Enemalta’s statement would have received an F. They’re clearly trying to deceive people.”
Does this mean that we have a low fuel tax? If so, the Maltese consumer effectively buys fuel at competitive prices when compared to other EU countries. What is Joseph Muscat exactly complaining about? Am I missing something?
In the bizzaro world of PL-defined “reality,” the only “facts” allowed are those that express (the non-contextualized distortion) that PN “bad” and PL “good”, “better”, and “best”.
Reason and logic are irrelevant when the Fireworks (and Earthquake) Committee, run by Chairman Joseph, expect to celebrate the Electoral Festa in a default campaign against a demonized opponent. Its all word magic and the weapons of words (not as logical argument, but as one who attacks rationality and defines the desired reality).
Who needs logic, rational argument, or plans, when consensus will be imposed by those who hold the local power of the nation? Of course, eventually, after the damage will be done, Malta will discover (for those who do not yet understand) that in the political-economic reality of the globalized and EU-world “Malta is not an Island” nor a “Switzerland in the Mediterranean”.
For a political party that believes in “the will to power,” the PL will not be able to use irrational politics indefinitely in the real world.
But the short-term and long-term question will be whether or not voters can be more rational in the national interest, or whether they are simply greedy opportunists and identity-based “true believers” who want to “belong” to what they perceive will be the “winning side”.
Will PL as well as PN supporters be convinced by rationality and the arguments of reason? Who knows? The governments one gets are not always sane choices.
And the present state of existence is no absolute guarantee for an assured future–as if everything built over a generation may be taken for granted–as if all that is necessary is image and desire [such as was Greece, until the financial/political reality demolished an illusion for a painless recovery].
It means Joseph’s been foxed by the facts – again.
The only price people care about is the one they themselves pay.
If I was a reporter at that press conference I would have asked Joseph a simple question: ‘If elected would you transform the theatre back as it was before it was destroyed?’ I bet you he would not have replied.
The PN must declare, preferably on Thursday, that Franco Debono will be banned from contesting the next election on its behalf.
I suspect that quite a few of the undecided voters, like myself, are awaiting such a decision before they declare in favour of the PN. It is the decent thing to do, whatever the outcome.
Undecided voters need to do is think hard about to who they want to entrust their immediate future and that of their country.
There’s Joseph Muscat and there’s Lawrence Gonzi.
Who can best be relied upon to tackle the present and ongoing European economic crisis?
Who is the more likely to put the country’s interest before their own?
Who is the more likely to come up with innovative policies?
Who can best guaranty our liberty, without a shadow of doubt?
Who has always believed in us being capable to hold our own with larger nations as equals, without threats and shenanigans.
Anything else is petty and insignificant.
Don’t play games with all our futures. It’s not empty words and half-baked policies we need. It’s total commitment to duty away from the cameras and without pomp and ceremony.
Just take a good look at the two men. It really isn’t hard to choose between them.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=336517523095747&set=a.233349896745844.58868.154671951280306&type=1&theater
You have to see this. It is hilarious. Ohra a’ la Silvio Parnis.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=336517523095747&set=a.233349896745844.58868.154671951280306&type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=4190374558712&set=a.1136588335965.2021898.1265051242&type=1&theater
Ħadu qatgħa msieken. Jien ħa nieħu qatgħa meta jibdew imexxu ċwieċ bħal Silvio Parnis, mela meta jmut Mintoff.
Imissek rajtu il-bierah lil Silvio Parnis jipprezenta programme fuq xi Favourite TV ma’ professur u tabib laburist li bejnietna l-anqas jinteressani x’jismu, fuq l-after effects tax xorb u l-ikel waqt il-festi tar-rahal, fosthom pressjoni u gass.
Trid tara biex temmen kemm huma lura.
Signs of times to come – Roubini mentions strong indication of another financial crisis in 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/video/roubini-2013-perfect-storm-may-surpass-2008-crisis-_n0veqyhR2iioq1q6MySFQ.html
Can you imagine this dream team coming up with the right policies to effectively manage the country during a financial crisis.
Times of Malta online poll:
“Do you agree that Malta has a problem of racism?”
No, of course not. We’re liberal and progressive now.
Oh wait, no. That’s only if you’re gay.
How is this news?
The real eye-opener is that 30% answered ‘No’.
Now we know how many timesofmalta.com readers are really racist, because you have to be one to answer no.
Unfortunatly, they are also the ones writing their horrendous opinions online in the comments sections, with all the world to see, compounding Malta’s already bad reputation concerning racism.
Most of the posts make me sick to my stomach.
Tal-wahx – imsieken ahna.
Ara vera poplu stupidu ghandna, jaghti cans lil dawn in-nies.
Very funny indeed.
On a different note: Franco Debono said this to the Times: “ But instead of pointing fingers at each other, we need to acknowledge our own mistakes, including my own, and move forward.”
Do we smell fear?