Look who’s preaching about being a true European: the man who campaigned against EU membership
I campaigned against EU membership, but have been using EU membership to my own personal advantage ever since.
The Malta Independent, today
A true European believes in an open society – Muscat
Labour leader Joseph Muscat expressed confidence yesterday that young people would be shoulder to shoulder with him to make Malta truly European. He was speaking at the annual general meeting of the Forum Żgħażagħ Laburisti.
He said that to be European did not mean to wave the European flag, but to believe in an open society, where families are treated equally and not as first or second class, where the government does not dictate the style of life of people and where the government makes room for the private sector to continue investing and creating wealth.
The Labour Party has in the last four years become a younger movement, Dr Muscat said. Its aim is to give everyone a chance to progress, and those not keeping up being given a hand.
The PL has also become a more feminine movement, he added. This is one of the more serious problems of public life in Malta, with society still discouraging the participation of women.
He said that in the last four years the PL has agreed with the government and worked with it in the interest of the country, on various occasions, such as on the rent legislation, and the fiscal pact.
The near future will be crucial to the country, and there could be a new year without an approved budget, which would lead to huge uncertainty, endangering employment. He repeated his appeal to the prime minister to avoid this situation, and to avoid playing with the livelihood of families and young people.
On the Prime Minister’s own words, Dr Muscat said, the budget will be a vote of confidence and the Labour Party has no confidence in GonziPN because over the last years it has shown it cannot bring about the promised change. On the other hand, the change the movement wants to bring will be introduced with prudence, and create certainty.
If Joseph Muscat is so worried about starting the new year without an approved budget, he could always get his people to vote in favour of it. It’s not written in stone that the Opposition should vote against.
So let’s stop playing with words, shall we.
But did he really say that the Labour Party has become more feminine?
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Unrelated, but worth reading. There’s a lesson for us Maltese here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9616750/Rowan-Atkinson-we-must-be-allowed-to-insult-each-other.html
Look at the mangled grammar and the ludicrousness of this statement:
“The PL has also become a more feminine movement, he added. This is one of the more serious problems of public life in Malta…”
They’re all wearing drag, what?
Possibly his true colours are emerging. ‘Fifty Shades of Gay’?
Watch it Harry – don’t forget this guy doesn’t live a million miles away from Mellieha.
He did, and it was evidently a slip. You know what he meant, feminist rather than feminine.
[Daphne – No, I don’t know what he meant. If somebody says ‘feminine’, then I hear the meaning as ‘feminine’ not ‘feminist’. It’s not all the same to me, you know.]
But apart from that, you suggest that we stop playing with words. Actually what you should have said about the budget is that the Government should stop playing the game as if it were business as usual. The consultations with the unions and social partners intended to collate ideas for inclusion or otherwise in the budget is just a waste of time.
I cannot comprehend for the life of me why the unions bother to meet and put their ideas forward if the govt is already dead in the water.
When Joseph Muscat burns his bra and those of Karmenu Vella, Anglu Farrugia, Joe Galea Debono e ‘la bella compania’, then they can call themselves feminist.
Name one opposition in the democratic world when the opposition had voted in favour of the budget, when the budget in itself, is a vote of confidence in the government. This was confirmed by the prime minister. And when an election could be weeks away !
Mr. Privitera, the great thing about writing is that it allows you to put thoughts into words. This implies that we can see the line of thought in one’s writing.
What is your point: should the opposition vote against the party in government because it is the norm to do so? Or is it because an election is ‘weeks away’? What do you understand by ‘democracy’? Is it not the will of the majority?
Fuzzy logic or plain LP?
No logic. can’t even spell it, never mind think it.
He got the youte, he got da wimmin, he goin afta da gerries & spackers next.
What him gonna offa middle-aged foreigners what has da vote?
Labour preaching about an Open Society? Really?