Everyone tells Jeffrey he’s wrong or lying and still he barges on
One of Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s most outlandish claims – and there have been many – was that Eddie Fenech Adami, then not yet leader of the Nationalist Party, voted with the Opposition in 1974. The inference was that if it was all right for Fenech Adami, then it was all right for Jeffrey, and he was only following Fenech Adami’s example.
Let’s leave aside the outrageousness of his claiming that in voting against Fenech Adami’s longtime personal assistant, he was in fact following in Fenech Adami’s footsteps.
And let’s stick to the facts. Of course, Jeffrey was speaking on Super One television at the time (Tuesday morning) where facts are in short supply and the record has to be set straight afterwards because at the Labour Party they don’t set much store by their credibility.
The vote was on whether Malta should become a republic. The then Nationalist leader and leader of the Opposition, George Borg Olivier, was against this. But when he realised that the majority of his party did not agree with him, he gave a free vote and did not use the whip.
When the vote was taken, all members of the Opposition voted for a republic – except for the Opposition leader, Paul Borg Olivier, Albert Borg Olivier de Puget, Sandy Cachia Zammit, Alfred Bonnici and Joe Cassar Galea.
So Fenech Adami did not vote with the Opposition, because the vote was free. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, on the other hand, voted with the Opposition on the matter of Richard Cachia Caruana’s resignation, and this because the whip had been deployed on both sides of the house. There was no free vote.
Eddie Fenech Adami responded, accusing Pullicino Orlando of not knowing the facts and of making false comparisons between his recent actions in Parliament and a “completely different” situation which had developed in 1974.
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But isn’t this precisely how politics is played by JPOS and most of the (M)LP?
They lash out with preposterous accusations and hope to “hit” as many people as possible with their claims. Then when the accusations are contested and rebuted, they never come back to defend or prove their accusations.
It’s so good to see the PN finally showing a bit of muscle and reacting to these wild accusations because much of the shit that’s been flung lately has really landed back in the faces of the (M)LP.
But you know what they say: If it’s sick, it’s Labour.
Even JPO’s ex canvassers are scratching their heads trying to figure out how they ever sacrificed so much time and effort into getting such an asshole elected.
I suggest JPO follows this link and regains some honour by doing the right thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku
Ahem.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120717/local/fenech-adami-denies-voting-against-the-party-line-in-1974.428974
‘franco debono
Jul 17th, 15:16
is it true?
is eddie fenech adami labelling his then leader dr borg olivier as dissenter?
during his tenure as party leader would he have allowed this situation to arise? or did he use to suffocate dissent and nip it in the bud?
how did eddie fenech adami become PN leader?
is the same thing going on in regardsto lawrence gonzi to replace him?
does eddie think the lease he gave lawrence gonzi is soon expiring and he wants the party back?’
I honestly think he’s gone gaga, a bit like the army surplus store owner from Falling Down.
It seems to me that Labour are doing all they think they have to do to attract the floating voters.
What depresses me is that their tactics might actually work.
I shall never again underestimate the stupidity of the average voter.
God help us.
There will be thousands of kaishakunins to help out.
J P O = Just Piss Off