Helena Dalli (soon to be a cabinet minister) demonstrates the sort of leadership required in a crisis
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December 11, 2012 at 1:01pm
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Can you imagine any of the incumbent ministers posting anything of the sort on their Facebook profile?
To be honest, yes I could – you’re in Malta, afer all! On top, Dalli is not a minister and I hope she’ll never be.
My 75-year-old uncle said today, “Nirrah jitla il-Labour halli iz-zaghzagh tal-lum imurilhom in-nejk li ghandhom u jkunu jafu min xiex ghaddejna ahna taht Mintoff”.
That is what my father has been saying repeatedly for the last six months as well, Nanny Goat.
Listen, the Brits ruined our Mediterranean culture and made us loathe it, exploited us…and no one every criticises them! Mintoff, is a post-colonial product like many dictators in Africa. Malta needed him, but as time went by he messed up. The man who philosophically started to enlighten the country in the 50s, pulled it down into the abyss of mediocrity.
But Mintoff was no simpleton. Everything he did was calculated including his ‘tar-rahal’ look (with his horse buckle, etc)… This was a a bloke who was sporty, ate well, he was Oxbridge-trained, married into nobility and sent his children to the poshest public (public means posh private schools not ‘tal-gvern’) schools…!
Mintoff’s appearance intentionally evolved in parallel with his politics. In the 50s he had a slick look….
Daqsxejn ewforija pakata, ghalfejn qed iggibha bi kbira?
Considering, the central organisation has insisted that today’s a normal working day, asked its followers to stay away from Valletta, and essentially did its best to “kill the passion” that we in Malta would generally resort to in situations of the sort.
Just think of 1998 and compare the two. Sa toqghod iggibha bi kbira ghax Helena Dalli gabet “game over” on her FB page. Big deal.
So Labour’s ‘central administration’ (they can’t forget their ‘statist’ terminology) “did its best to “kill the passion” that we in Malta would generally resort to in situations of the sort.”
As far as I can remember “the passion” which Mandango refers to above was generally and specifically resorted to by organised labour supporters and thugs!
And she has the nerve to propose merit in the public sector?
Your blog will be removed, again. tsk.
Ara naqra min irid imexxi il-pajjiz. Trid tkun vera inbecili biex tafda il-pajjiz lil dawn in-nies qishom ghamlu xi rebha ghax il-prim sejjah elezzjoni.
All they want is power. They are not interested in the arguments or issues. There only aim and reason for living is to gain power. Than they will see what they will do. They are mad for power.
Once I was talking to a person on facebook and he claimed he knows Jason Micallef. He said that he(Jason) eloped with the girlfriend of his friend. He asked him to escort his girldfriend to her home because he didn’t have a car and he eloped with her.
I also went out with a girl and instead of telling me that she didn’t want to go out anymore with me she betrayed me. She was labour. Just to give you an idea what type of people we are dealing with. This could have destroyed my life. BASTARDS.
Paul, seriously: what on earth has Labour got to do with your love life? Let’s call a spade a ‘spade’!
Has she published her plans about the audit of the civil service as yet?
Game over after 5 years: normal.
Game over after 22 months: not normal.
They are all pretentious for a Cabinet post. Muscat needs a cabinet of at least 30 ministers to satisfy most of them. But then the disappointment starts there.
It is not funny is the least, having would-be ministers displaying that kind of infantile mentality.
They are an embarrassment not just to themselves, but to the entire country, and will be so all the more once they are in power.
Apart from the fact that stupidity is a dangerous thing, especially when one is running a country.
They can’t even contain themselves in their stupidities. It’s how they deem themselves fit to govern the country. Their level of politics is so shallow. It’s as if they’re talking about a North African state going through its Arab spring.
What they don’t realise (or should I say ‘try to hide’?) is that this government has come, despite all odds, to the end of its constitutional tenure. Their real test is yet to come, and from what I see they haven’t yet a clue of what they’re going to do if elected to govern.
They avoided a direct TV interview with the new NP deputy leader and yesterday, after the brilliant performance by the PM, all J Muscat can say is basically that they won’t give in to the Dr Gonzi’s provocations!
Poor us, if their worst is still to come.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/courtandpolice/Attard-homeowner-found-guilty-in-other-usurpation-cases-20121210
stark reminder of Labour’s past
If you skim through Franco Debono’s blog there are a curious number of submissions all suggesting him as the next speaker of the house.
They’re obviously planted, but it is an indication of where his next ambition lies.
Doesn’t the speaker need to be an MP?
Not to my knowledge.
I suggest he heads for the speakers’ corner in Hyde Park.
Miss Zabbar – that’s hardly fighting the stereotype.
Compare to a man of substance – The Ombudsman.
Daphne, I meant to write this under your post about the switchers, but I cannot find it now as there has been so many new posts in the last few days.
I disagree with your choice of the word switchers when referring to supposed Nationalists voting Labour, and this is because I don’t believe for one minute that these people were ever real Nationalists in the first place.
True authentic Nationalists would never bring themselves to vote Labour. If they are genuinely disgruntled about something, they might decide not to vote, or invalidate the vote, but they will never vote Labour.
Yes, I know that these actions still result as an advantage for Labour, but psychologically, for true Nationalists, it is not the same. They would see it a protest against the PN, but not actually betraying it by voting Labour.
What you call switchers, I call….never mind, this is a family blog. At best, I will call them opportunists or floaters.
They just call themselves Nationalists because they want to mix with the right crowds, or so they think.
A case in point is Franco Debono himself. He’s been hollering at us for ages that he’s a born Nationalist. Really? Is there anyone out there who still believes him?
He might have been born into a Nationalist family but that does not make him one.
He ended up as a candidate for the PN because he happened to be at the right place at the right time, which to the rest of us ending up being the wrong place at the wrong time.
At that time he was perceived as a popular village lawyer in his district and someone thought it a good idea to ask him to stand on the PN ticket with the aim that he would attract a lot of votes where they were needed.
He spelt trouble from day one, even before he was elected, when he wanted to dictate who should and shouldn’t be invited to a reception being held in one of the PN clubs in his district. Typical Labour behaviour I call that, anke fuq bicca party ried jaqla’ kwistjoni.
Yes, right, a true Nationalist my foot.
Replace Gonzi by Busuttil, get rid of Austin and maybe a couple more and PN will secure another win.
This week, I was in hysterics when I discovered that Rockorkestra (absolute, amateur farce) bloke in the guise of ‘PL spokesman for culture’.
He can’t even say ‘informazzjoni’ which he replaces by ‘afformazzjoni’ (see Youtube clip).
Populism at its very worst – if this guy is Malta’s future minister for culture, then Joe Debono Grech could easily be at the helm the Ministry of Etiquette.
I wouldn’t want to see Gonzi in the role of PM again, but PL? Oh no.
Game Over?
Even during the last election the MLP and all their supporters were certain that they were going to win the election by 30,000 votes.
The result proved otherwise cause the Maltese voters are not crazy. We need professional politicians and not politicians who are amateurs and most of all corrupt.
Labour had a golden opportunity and as usual threw it away – had they voted in favour of the budget they would have won the election hands down.
Perception would have been that this party has really the national interest at heart and did what no opposition has done before.
Now it’s too late. I wouldn’t put it past by me that they will lose the elections yet again.
I for one despise the fact that Dalli – and other fellow Labourites – brought ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ into this. (If you haven’t guessed so far, I love that film!) I will however recognise the irony in that the comparison to ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ is still rather accurate, but obviously not for the reasons Dalli and the others think.
The film is – and here I’m explaining in a nutshell and not really doing it justice – basically about one Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, being tired of the status quo and trying out his hand at Christmas when he discovers the holiday. He kidnaps Santa Claus to take his place, while – not knowing better – giving Christmas his own Halloween twist. Things don’t end well on that front, however, and Jack is attacked by the military for (unwittingly) attacking children and ruining Christmas. Jack realises he’s not meant for Christmas after all.
So what are the parallels with Labour? Well, Labour is in similar place Jack was in when he discovered Christmas Town. Tired of the status quo, they want to rule/govern Malta, and brought down the government to do it (like kidnapping Santa Claus). Like Jack, they are not adapt to do so and if they try to add their own style of things will just make a mess of it. Hopefully, the comparison holds true for the rest of the story as well, as the people around them (voters) realise this and shoot them down.
I do admit, though, that while Labour can therefore stand in for Jack Skellington, it lacks his intelligence, wit, charisma, charm, good intentions and wonderful singing voice.
And to drive home the whole point of Labour’s hollowness even more, I’m pretty sure Dalli didn’t know just what ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’ actually is or its story, but chose to use it because of its title and gothic imagery. Too bad the substance of the story seems lost on her.
I love the analogy!
U din marret l-universita! Ahseb u ara.
Labour had one golden chance to survive and remodel itself: Alfred Sant. But how on earth could one envisage a Harvard graduate, a brilliant intellectual and economist, and a playwright surviving in such a milieu? I think it was very unfair that he was mocked on his vision of a Switzerland in the Med. Let’s face it – the EU is at one of its lowest points in history and the Swiss model is in no way unrealistic.
But, anyhow – Sant couldn’t be bothered to be round such people. And the rest is history!
‘Game over’ shows us clearly that, for Dalli, politics are a game.