Please distinguish between the OFFICE/ROLE and the PERSON who occupies it
What was normal practice in Gaddafi’s Libya is not normal practice in the European Commission, as John Dalli (on left of picture, in 1987) has just discovered.
Too many people don’t understand the concept of a role, as distinct from the person who occupies it.
John Dalli is one of those, addressing his ‘I won’t resign’ letter to “Jose Manuel” and signing it off as “John Dalli, EU Commissioner” when it was printed on his domestic stationery with a Portomaso address (and when he was no longer Commissioner anyway).
This twit thinks that Dalli’s move to the European Commission meant he should take his baggage with him.
Mark Borg
Today, 11:49
Why all the gasps of surprise for what Dalli said about canvassers and their role? Are these declarations of surprise the product of naivety or denial or both?
But at least some people do get the point that this is not about Dalli so much as about the rules he broke.
Richard Caruana
Today, 11:06
Can’t believe that what is supposed to be a seasoned politician talks this way.Preferential treatment due to nepotism, whether money changes hands or not, is corruption.
At least this one is amusing:
Leslie Darmanin
Today, 09:59
So according to John Dalli, international lobbyists prefer to contact one of his “hundreds” of canvassers instead of his office directly.
That means Mrs Cettina from Dalli’s home town Qormi will get a call one morning from a tobacco lobby group and she would jump at the chance to get them an appointment with Dalli, just to feel important.
Wow, how friendly they must think we Maltese are.
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Has nobody advised John Dalli that in his own interest he should not be making any comments or giving any interviews until he gets his day in court?
The more he says the bigger the hole he is digging for himself. Any lawyer worth his salt would tell him to keep his mouth shut, at least for now. But he is so keen to impress his innocence upon us that he keeps on blabbing. Likening canvassers with lobbyists is just another faux pas to add to the growing list against him.
I remember when he packed his bags and skipped gaily off to his ludicrously overpaid position in Brussels. I said to the hubby “This will all end in tears!” And so it has.
Now he have all the time to start visiting Libya and do business there if he is allowed to go there after all. Lots of rumours going around.
The Libyans will certainly take a liking to snus.