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Posted by AE yesterday:
So we’re going to let Labour ravage the country because a bunch of people are going through a mid-life crisis.
Get a grip, people. Go take a diving course or try rock climbing or something, but don’t shatter the peace and security that we have been enjoying.
If you want some different and want to get rid of certain faces just vote in different people who are contesting on the PN ticket.
There are some excellent alternatives with the likes of Simon Busuttil, Therese Commodini Cachia and Albert Fenech.
I think Mark Anthony Sammut is also contesting.
There you go: four new names in under a minute. But if you are so reckless that what you want are the likes of Debono Grech or slippery eels like Karmenu Vella so that life is totally unpredictable then you are beyond redemption.
I have not forgotten the feeling of waking up every morning not sure what was going to happen to disturb our well-being that day. Have you?
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Why isn’t Claudette Pace on that list of star candidates?
[Daphne – I don’t think her candidature had been announced yet. The comment came in early yesterday.]
And just as well. Because I don’t think those “excellent alternatives” should even be seen next to some of the other candidates that are being touted.
Claudette Pace is a star candidate?
Any face will do as long as it`s NOT Labour. The bad days are still a vivid terrible memory to me and my family.
It is beyond comprehension when I hear that middle aged people are prepared to throw their secure future and their children’s future for the sake of change. An unknown risky change to boot.
There is myself as well on Joe Debono Grech’s District :)
Daphne I am not old enough to remember waking up every morning not sure what was going to happen to disturb our well-being that day.
However I do remember waking up back when Alfred Sant was Prime Minister and I do not recall anyone disturbing my well being. I still lived in peace and security as far as I can remember.
[Daphne – Alfred Sant’s government was unadulterated hell, with the economy hitting the skids in nano-seconds and practically the entire period devoted to the exercise of changing VAT to CET, with nightmarish consequences. Why else do you think he was hammered at the polls after just 22 months?]
Maybe you can refresh my memory?
Having said that, no I do not want the likes of Debono Grech.
Yes, there are decent options like Simon Busuttil and Tonio Fenech (if he is contesting), but its useless if these are driven by the stubborn communist a**hole that Gonzi has become.
I agree with you about Alfred Sant however I assumed that when you referred to ‘disturbing your well being’ you were referring to the violence and lack of human rights that existed back during Mintoff times. My point is that I do not recall such similarities under Alfred Sant.
[Daphne – My goodness, why does it have to be all about violence? Alfred Sant’s government – and let’s not forget that it includes many people who are trying to become ministers again now, including Karmenu Vella – did so very much damage, not just with that chaos in replacing VAT with CET, but primarily by withdrawing Malta from the EU membership process.]
Jien nghid ghalija, Sajmint Buzuttin is the best. Superbly fluent in Eurospeak, his accomplishments as a budding EU apparatchik are unsurpassed.
U meta jinghaqad mal-compañeros Maltin tghidx x’festa Maltija jaf johloq fil-grounds tal-Parliament gEwwA BruKseLL.
Ikkunsidraw: intuzaw l-istess tined li jintuzaw ghall-Festa Indipendenza fuq il-Fosos! Araw x’simbolizmu sabih, l-ahwa! U bi prezz wiehed ghas-saldu…
Dnub Dejv Jitkaza u Moon Taldu ma hadux sehem fi Gbir il-Buqxi€x – zgur kienet tkun festa akbar.
Haqqhom monument fuq il-Fosos Sajmint Buzuttin, Missier Xandru u Xjiekluna l-Bajd. Insemmuh ‘Les Gavroches du Parlement européen’ – u npogguh taht tinda imhallsa mill-parlament arjupew.
Kev your sarcasm is reeking of self pity and envy for those that believe in a tangible system and do something with their lives that improves the lot of others .
I’m not sure you got the ‘tinda b’xejn’ clue, yor/malta, let alone having PL MEPs helping the PN with other people’s money… but we’ll leave it at that.
I AM dealing with children here, after all, and let’s not forget that.
Madonna x’ nit haqq!
Jekk tohrog ghall-elezzjoni int, Kev, lanqas Sharon ma tivvutalek.
I would also add that Joanna Agius is another very welcome, fresh face on the 10th district.
Neither the PN nor the LP are capable of running the country, because they will both f**k it up. The PN are not doing a great job at the moment, they are only looking for glory, but the LP will seek revenge.
To bring the bored ones to their senses, one would need to make them think of the consequences which will follow once they have put Labour in government. Very often one first acts in a revengeful manner, and then regrets the consequences.
Here are just a few typical ones.
The day after Joseph Muscat appears in the balcony at the Mile End, they will get a ‘New Labour Government’ with a ‘new’ cabinet starring George Vella, Karmenu Vella, Alex Sceberras Trigona, Joseph Debono Grech and Leo Brincat -the same people who ruined their youth. A 39-year old Super One hack takes over at Castille.
Then, they will learn that the word ‘moviment’ has been abolished from local politics and that it has been replaced by ‘Partit Laburista fil-Gvern,’ or ‘Gvern Gdid Laburista’ which is only the same old Mintoffian Malta Labour Party with a Maltese name that means ‘Gvern tal-Laburisti biss’ and ‘Gvern tal-vendikazzjonijiet man-Nazzjonalisti.’
A few days later, they will see bazuzli about their same age or even older taking positions of leadership in the Authorities, boards, and government owned enterprises and agencies. Names like Norman Hamilton, Godfrey Grima, Marlene Cat Siut Mizzi, Mario Vella…
Within one week, the PBS will be returned to Dardir Malta as Jason and his team will be installed there to stage-manage every government event, including the opening of a car-parks which are not yet ready.
Within a few weeks, Joseph Muscat will appear on a Xandira lin-Nazzjon to tell the public that he cannot reduce the water and electricity tariffs neither substantially nor sustainably because the international price of oil is going up and because of the ‘hofra’ and the ‘dejn nazzjonali.’
Within a few months, the labour market will start to wobble. Unemployment starts to rise, and there will be queues of jobless as predicted by the pre-election billboards.
In less than one year, in the first Labour budget, the bored ones will discover a whole list of new taxes and cuts in education, stipends, and charges on the health sector.
At this point, things start going wrong.
Attempts will be made to suppress the freedom of expression and the Prime Minister will reply with “no comment” about the situation in the country.
Fundamental human rights will be suspended so that the Labour government can handle the situation in the ‘national interest.’
The New Labour Government will try to blame the previous government and the EU.
Before we know it, the bored ones will see the country knocking on the doors of the IMF asking for a bailout.
Good crystal-ball that!!
I am not a keen supporter of the PN but when I think of the alternative, I come to my senses immediately. God save us from the PL.