Sometimes, the Nationalist Party’s press statements REALLYspeak to me
PN statement, Friday, 3rd August 2012
Labour won’t work.
Muscat’s people: Tried, tested, and failed – they will take the country back 30 years.
Labour won’t work. Muscat has promoted to Labour’s front bench – and will promote them to Cabinet should his personal ambition of becoming Prime Minister be fulfilled – people from Labour’s dark past who have been tried, tested, and failed – miserably.
Karmenu Vella is an excellent example of a failed politician – he was Minister for Industry in the 80’s when 10,000 were on the dole. Muscat has promoted Vella to the front bench again, and has given him the task of writing Labour’s electoral manifesto. Others, such as Alex Sceberras Trigona – who tainted Malta’s name when he was Malta’s Foreign Affairs Minister, and Leo Brincat, another failed labour politician whose expertise is taxing the Maltese and milking them dry; he introduced 33 new taxes the last time he was Minister for Finance and the Economy – have all been promoted by Muscat.
Labour won’t work. PN’s billboard clearly shows that labour will take us back 30 years . Labour won’t work. Labour creates unemployment.
Frank Psaila
Information Director, PN
Karmenu Vella and Leo Brincat, back when electors aged 30 and younger were not even conceived yet, and now they’re going to write the road map for their future. U halluna, tridux, ja qabda qlafat.
Oh look, and here’s Alex Sceberras Trigona, greeting Muammar Gaddafi in Malta, his vassal state, in the Golden Years. And what do you know, there’s the inevitable Karmenu Vella too – extreme right (ahem).
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I don’t know why people are saying that the PL will win.
It’s not like they have some sort of killer manifesto and reputation to compete with, to say nothing of the people that are running on their ticket.
they do not have to try to win, they only must be good so as not to loose. GonziPN has a terminal illness, and euthanasia is not legal in Malta.
You’re being sensible and logical here. Unfortunately, sense and logic do not factor into it at all. Quite the opposite.
Lino Spiteri, who was a minister under Mintoff and KMB and did not dream of resigning when his leader said that he was willing to suspend the Constitution to create work, has written yet another piece for The Times today.
In it, he expresses shock that sometimes Dr. Gonzi does not answer questions from the press.
All he has to do is watch Net News on a Sunday evening and see Dr. Muscat smiling at the Net correspondent when asked a question which he never answers.
Spiteri ended his column by saying that if the Prime Minister continues to insult the media, he might regret it.
What cheek, coming from a person who formed part of those obnoxious cabinets.
I agree. Did he have maltastar in mind when he wrote this:
“The media sector has made great strides in recent years.
Not only in composition and technically, but also in the quality of the human resources that staff the various newspapers and broadcasting stations. Media owners have also progressed. Today there is practically total emphasis on treating facts as sacred and reporting all news objectively.”
Lino Spiteri should have emphasised that Joseph Muscat is so confident that he uses a teleprompter . Unlike Dr. Gonzi he is not arrogant, he just answers with ;’ghalissa daqshekk se nghid. Illum se nasal s’hemm’.
Karmenu Vella is still spoken about with near-awe in the tourism industry as easily the best tourism minister we have ever had.
And that’s Censu Moran on the right.
[Daphne – Awe? You have to be joking. The man can barely speak. The only thing he’s good at is truffling out business opportunities for himself, as with the deal he brokered between the GWU and S Mifsud & Sons, to create the Orange Travel Group which he chairs. He was tourism minister for roughly 22 months, for God’s sake. Put things into perspective. Kemm intkom iddisprati, jahasra. Why don’t you listen when people speak of his ABYSMAL record as industry minister in the 1980s. He had a pretty easy ride taking over tourism as a going concern from the National government and warming his seat until Sant put a rocket under it. Mela dak kapaci ghal xi haga, hlief jahtaf ghal butu? Hallina tridx.]
I WAS talking about the 80s actually.
[Daphne – Indeed. Then you haven’t yet taken your medication. Do it now, before things get out of hand.]
Post 1998 elections, I recall watching a TV programme where one of Malta’s leading hoteliers (guess I can say the name too: Winston Zahra Snr) referred to Karmenu Vella as “Tourism Minister”.
Had thought it was a fruedian slip initially, but WZ was quick on the mark to state unashamedly that he still referred to KV as such, clearly showing his (WZ’s) admiration of KV’s contribution to tourism. Little did he seem to care that it was an insult to the incumbent.
[Daphne – Oh, don’t be pathetic. Se taghlimni dwar kif jahseb Winston Zahra Junior issa, ukoll. Mur ‘l hemm jahasra. You people are so unused to basic good manners that you misinterpret them for something else. As usual.]
But that’s the way it is with industrialists/hoteliers and employers: they tell it as they see it.
[Daphne – No, I’m afraid. In most cases they tell it as it suits them to do so, pretty much like everyone else. No industrialist or hotelier or any other person involved in a certain level of business, is going to be rude about a politician, even an Opposition politician, because next year or the year after that, they might need them. And that’s about the long and short of it. The Zahras backed the EU membership campaign. That should tell you everything you need to know about the way they think of Karmenu Vella’s policies and attitude. If they thought he was so great in 1998, they would have voted for him to stay.]
Its “SNR” I wrote not “Junior”, so I was referring to the senior one.
Secondly, I am used to good manners trust me on that. You don’t know me, so you can hardly say anything about me other than about what I write here.
[Daphne – Your own manners are terrible. Bear in mind that I have had to delete some of your more appalling comments. Your very choice of nickname is awful and vulgar.]
Thirdly, I represent myself and no-one else, thus “you people” is rather misplaced. You make it sound as if I’m in a grouping (“the other Malta”?) I’ve always been in since ever.
[Daphne – In my experience, when Laburisti are as negatively persistent as you are, they are motivated by something outside themselves and not merely in it for the sport or the pro bono defence of Labour.]
Lastly, if I may, its not just MY (excuse the capitals but not sure I can get type in italics here) opinion, it was shared by many others, whatever the political hue.
But then, its just an opinion, not expecting you to agree or anything.
@ Daphne
You are a great entertainer. And I do not mean it in an offensive way. And kudos to you too for your promptness.
Admittedly I did resort to vulgar posts at times, apologies for that.
Not to make a fine point to it, but there were times when you just deleted my decent posts, so I tried a different style, and hey presto, you actually let some through. Naughty of you to put me in bad light!
As for the nickname, its just a game.
By the way – I see that the gag in re JPO and FD is still in place. Must be bloody uncomfortable.
[Daphne – Ask your party to bore its readers and viewers, Martin. I, on the other hand, clearly haven’t yet lost my touch. http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/MT Goodbye.]
Not sure what I was seeing there, but your stars aren’t golden. Means something?
And one other thing. I hang around here quite frequently. Doesn’t mean I concur with your views, far from it!
No, Mandango, but it does mean you’re far from bored. And that was Daphne’s point exactly.
JPwhO?
Must read
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120806/opinion/PN-emerging-stronger-than-ever.431699#
Are Labour’s marketing startegists mad?
Do they not think before coming up with something like Copy and Paste? Look at the pictures of Leo, Alex, George, Karmenu, Joe Grima,et all. Can’t they see the PN’s next billboard coming? Copy and paste, the same faces from 1982 are here again today in 2012, exactly 30 years later.
I am not surprised that this drivel is music to your ears.
Frank Psaila’s attack on Karmenu Vella, Leo Brincat and Alex Sceberras Trigona is a pathetic repetition of what you have been posting ‘ad nauseam’ on your blog for the past few months eliciting only a handful of comments from your disciples who can now be counted on one hand.
You are really going down Daphne.
[Daphne – Hardly, my dear. The opposite is true. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/daphnecaruanagalizia.com#
http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/MT ]
I did try to find your site on alexa but got to 300 and gave up..Sex sites seem to be far more popular..where do i find your rating?
[Daphne – Oh, sorry, I forgot for a moment there that you vote Labour. Look under Malta. First you click on Top Sites, then you select By Country, then you select Malta. But I’ve made it easy for you – here’s the link which takes you straight there: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/MT ]
Oh wanted to congratulate you on having been recruited to support the PN election campaign.. I am positive you can give a good contribution once this blog is not so popular anymore, hence you are not so busy..
[Daphne – This blog has never been ranked as high as it is now, at 24 or 25. This means, Chantel, that it is now at its most popular ever, since start-up. I have not been recruited to ‘support the PN election campaign’. People support election campaigns of their own free will. Of course I support the PN election campaign – so do many thousands of others. But if you mean that I am working on the campaign, the answer is no, I’m not.]
‘Malta needed new people with fresh progressive ideas…’
‘Prime Minister when he was just 39….’
Guess who.
http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20120806-dom-mintoff-turns-96
Chapeau to you, Daphne. I never checked your web ratings but now that I have visited your link on Alexa I am extremely impressed. Runner up to Pirate Bay……wow.
More so when I went through the demographics of your readers. The younger generation seems to delight themselves on your arguments and ideas.
One thing I was not sure of. 65% Maltese and the rest of your viewers are Thai. How come and why Thai?
[Daphne – No idea. The views from Thailand don’t affect the ranking in Malta but only the ranking in Thailand (obviously), so I’m not bothered to find out.]