Jaqaw il-ministru ghas-sawt ifflaxxjatu xi xiha biz-zball?
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January 23, 2013 at 7:26pm
VIVA L-LABOUR, VIVA L-LABOUR, VIVA L-LABOUR
B Cool B Labour my eye. It hasn’t escaped my attention that the cool places are all blue.
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Yours is red.
And Filfla’s green.
‘Hemm it-telqa Delimara….’
Excellent title. Chapeau!
But do you mean to say that Comino is still blue, after the Technicolour Housecoat paid a heartfelt visit there, pseudo-sincere facial expressions, head-nodding etc?
Dear Daphne,
You may care to note that though the map attached shows the 1st District (Valletta, Hamrun and part of Marsa) in the red, it used to be strictly in the blue for a long time. This changed during the last election, because the Electoral commission decided to include part of Marsa with the district, thus managing to reverse the previous P.N. majority resulting from the overwhelming P.N. vote in Valletta and the perennial strong vote for that party in Hamrun even though many people assume that Hamrun is a Labour stronghold.
Also please note that it is P.N. voters residing in locations where the M.L.P. is strong or where the vote is pretty much even which have really decided election outcomes in recent years. The same could not be said of many voters in supposedly P.N. strongholds (most of them included in the “cool places” as per the caption above) who decided to risk Malta’s future in 2008 by staying at home and thus voting M.L.P. indirectly.
I agree one hundred per cent with you.
The first district was always blue until the last general election.
A sizeable number of first district Nationalists feel that their area, in recent years, has been all but forgotten by their PN representatives.
The PN candidates should try making an effort at making their presence felt – at least now.
Dan Silvio tal-biza’. Lanqas jaf x’hinu jghid. Mela nesa’ li kien Mintoff li ta l-fortizzi fis-sud ta’ Malta lil kapurjuni Laburisti biex jkabbru l-hniezer fihom?
Dawn mhux kollox jippruvaw inessu?
Meta s-Sovraintendenza tkelmet qajjmu frattarija.
I intend to vote PN, and I am from the south f’gieh kemm hemm! So don’t generalise pls.
Far from it. The poplu tas-Sawt will be getting the privilege of a brand spanking new power station complete with two big shiny gas tanks.
And again – settur privat!
Skoprew tezor jismu “settur privat”. Deus avertat.
Milli jidher hbewh.
Nahseb li x’imkien fic-Centru Nazzjonali ghandhom xi sotterran kbir, u lil Louis Grech, Toni Rubber Puppets Abela, Edward Scicluna, Silvio Parnis, Leo Brincat, Joe Debono Grech, George W. Vella, AST, u anke lil Konrad Mizzi, qafluhom kollha fih.
Le, ta. Toni Abela ikklownjawh tad-Disney, taf? http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Potato_Head?file=Potato_23.gif
Preciz.
Toni somehow escaped – he’s on the telly right now.
What I cannot fathom is, how are all the Labour promises going to be achieved when no apparent studies on expenditure are being proposed?
The Labour campaign is evolving into a movement by crises with no plan B and it is now increasingly becoming obvious, no plan A either.
Shameful considering Labour spent twenty-six years bar 22 months in opposition where it busily did f**k all.
When a political party builds itself upon funding from a foreign dictator, you can rest assured the mentality remains.
How does a party which calls itself Labour, refuse to partake in the largest political project ever seen in Europe?
Labour make the perfect case study of how politics can be vitiated.
Why isn’t more focus placed on declaration of this source of foreign funding and Joseph and Co’s real EU intentions?
I remember when the Chinese Cultural Centre’s million a year (or so) to the Malta Government was considered by some “pretty cheap for a stepping stone in the Med.”
What would the strings attached to such a source of funding be?
How much closer of a stepping stone would we be providing?
Stepping stone for who and to where?
I remember also that just before the EU referendum Nazliperla came out with a super cartoon: smiley upwards= part of the European region, smiley downwards=part of the African region.
So back to the logic, if we’re no longer to be 100% inside the EU then where exactly will we be? If there is such a silent partner providing funding in any considerable amount, then what lobby force is this exerting? Who and what do we become? Is the intention to redefine our geopolitical positioning? What is running the Joseph and Co. show? How will Malta be perceived?
I remember too, the shame I felt when Malta was referred to, especially abroad, as a Banana Republic in 1987. This was still shaky after the Erika disaster in the last months of ’99 (and thanks to the ridiculous Alfred Sant intervening years). We’ve come a long way since then – thanks again RCC for your vision, negotiating prowess and tenacity.
I guess what the general Labour followers are conveniently ignoring is that building something – even a positive international reputation for a country – is a far more difficult feat than the act of destroying it. (There’s almost no weight in that sentence – Could the same be said for the appreciation of democracy, once achieved?) The Nationalists have built up Malta’s reputation so splendidly that Malta has in financial terms now well shed that image of Banana Republic.
I thought the financial sector was to remain untouched. How would this be possible under Joseph, if this reputation changes to anything- which at this point of the debate I cannot fathom to be a ‘more’ – other than the almost pristine one it has become?
Please explain to me then how less is equal to same or better opportunities and attractiveness for the financial sector.
The Maltese language is one of those translated daily in Brussels. I’m not looking at the jobs that this created – that’s a plus, even, almost, a given – but not, to me, the winning factor. That Maltese is included, a more important statement underlining the importance within Europe of its geopolitical position, and one that hasn’t yet been fully exploited in this direction, is. It underlines who we are, where we came from and where we are heading, unless this is interfered with by something, or someone, that as Maltese and Europeans (but not limited to that) we haven’t reckoned into the equation.
Could we have some transparency on these issues please?
How many times are the Maltese expected to “melt down and hand in their gold and silver” to get rid of such masters?
After all, if we’re about to get Labour’s Auschwitz treatment, again; be on a pasta diet for years, again, because we’re conscientious enough to keep everyone -without distinction- employed through a disaster; have people refused university entrance despite their 4 A levels or equivalent at grade A, again, just because their intelligence is deemed a future threat (recent Labour attack against one such person – now prominent in Public Office – registered, which gives us further proof should we need it that Labour hasn’t changed), I would like to know who the puppet-master is and what their exact vision is.
I’ve noticed that not once have they referred to EU funds and programmes available as a method to implement their proposals.
‘Ghax in-Nazzjonalisti jbezzghu.’
The PL is quite clearly locking away its liabilities until election day and understandably so.
The problem is there are no assets to flaunt.
Who on earth is going to run this fair land come March ?
How come Valletta is red??
Gee Mr. Julian Silvio Parnis, I wonder what political party gave the go ahead to their favorite sons to use historic 19th century British forts as pigpens in the first place?
Muscat has revealed that he will create a law to protect the vulnerable such as the elderly and to punish severely those who take advantage of them be it professionals, family etc. Silvio Parnis take note.
[Daphne – Those laws exist already. You don’t need a special law. It is a crime already to abuse anyone.]
And because these laws exist already, his proposal got me thinking why would he say something like that. Is it just a ploy to get votes from little old women or is there something else (shady) to it?
It’s Salesmanship 101. “Prodott specjali ghalik.”
What is interesting is that he said that the planned hotels in the south were to be built on private investors’ own land. Does that mean in green areas ODZ?
Go figure Sasha.
The animals were removed from Fort Delimara. He might want to state who allowed the squatter in the first place.