So…Malta Taghna Lkoll. But “Ghawdex Ghall-Ghawdxin” – JosephMuscat2013, this evening
That first mass meeting went off like a damp squib, didn’t it? Literally. They bussed in three shiploads of Maltin for the meeting ghall-Ghawdxin, including, if I saw correctly, our friend Antonella tas-Snoopy.
There were no people from Gozo, and it looked pretty comfortable and spacious in Pjazza Santu Wistin, even accounting for the fantabulous stage set-up on which, unaccountably, Bono failed to appear.
It was the set-up for an expensive rock concert, and it was used for a speech lasting under half an hour.
All that time, effort, money, travel carbon footprint to Gozo – just to listen to somebody with nothing to say say it for 20 minutes.
And then everyone went home in the rain.
Honestly. Not good value for money at all.
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As Labour confidence builds up, one notes that red has made a comeback.
And not one EU flag.
And if accounts of the behavior of Labour supporters at Mgarr Harbour, on their way back from their futile trip, àre anywhere near the truth, things are getting scarier by the day.
Do tell us, please?
Not to mention reducing a normally two-hour trip tops back to Malta into a five-hour affair, during which they proceeded to honk all the way on and off the ferry as if they’d never been on one before, waving flags, trying to fuck each other over and skip the queue resulting in quite a bit of fighting and overall being a general nuisance.
To add insult to injury, two hours into waiting, the Great Leader proceeds to skipping the queue with the Alfa and his escorting car, cheered on by the followers who dropped their quarrelling just long enough to utter a couple of “Viva Josephs!” and wave their flags and honk some more.
Ghara biex irrid jimxi dal-pajjiz.
Scenes and sounds of the 70s and 80s.
Expect worse.
There’s our under cover agent Cyrus really having a ball.
He blends so well with the riffraff one can hardly pick him out in that photo.
Actually I’m not sure it’s really him or a cardboard cutout someone’s holding.
Cyrus looks so out of place that it’s almost like a photomontage. He tried his best, though, with that Burberry check scarf.
And isn’t that Justyne Caruana two rows behind him?
She must be protecting Cyrus from any Nationalist snakes.
Yes, poor thing. They must be feeling rather left out.
Serves them right, in a way. Her “DAWK IS-SRIEP” screams are still as fresh as if they were uttered this morning.
So out of place on the “Malta tagħna lkoll” stage, aren’t you, Justyne?
And yet people are buying into Joseph’s “inħobbkom” message.
Really? ‘Under cover’?
Was that flannelette, wool or cotton?
Anyone with him, also ‘under cover’?
I noticed him from his Burberry scarf which jarred in the sea of white ones.
Yep. Checked all the photos and I can’t find one EU flag.
I take it the Eurolovin’ evaporated as soon as victory was in sight. Mark my words, in 2016 we’ll be handing in our EU passports and ruing the day.
Unfortunately for us, I believe so too. Bye bye EU.
EU membership never even happened. According to Muscat, the he landmark decisions of the last 25 years were (drumroll, please), economic liberalisation and the ban on smoking in public places. No mention of EU accession or even of Labour’s election in 1996.
From the FB chat with Muscat last night, which has mysteriously disappeared into the ether:
Etienne Vella Dr Joseph Muscat, b’mod oggettiv, kiku kellek tazel l-iktar haga li ghogbitek li ghamel l-PN fl-ahhar 5 snin xi tkun? u l-iktar haga li ghogbitek li ghamel l-PN fl-ahhar 25 sena? grazzi hafna.
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Joseph Muscat Etienne: Se nghidlek 2 affarijiet li ghogbuni f’ 25 sena: Il-liberalizazzjoni f’ diversi oqsma tal-ekonomija u l-abolizzjoni tat-tipjip minn postijiet pubblici.
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What about Gozitans?
Kienu hemm id-deputati mexxejja Toni Abela u Louis Grech – jew il-klima kienet kiesha wisq ghalihom?
I hope I’m well off the mark with this one but to my understanding this is what our Great and Dear Leader is implying:
Come next elections, the Gozitans will have both Malta and Gozo. Tal-Labour will have Malta kollha taghhom. By that time they would have managed to cover every inch of the mainland with their white placards, billboards, soapboxes, azure backdrops, igloos, giant iPhones, and what’s yet to come.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will be fighting for our basic rights unless we’re lucky enough to find a job with Enemalta.
I shudder to think about the future of our expat friends and about the fate of the local minority communities.
As Joseph would say: Imnalla (Thank God) we are in the EU.
Cyrus did not seem to have enjoyed the afternoon as he had a woman in front of him.
Even more, he is sandwiched between two women. I bet he was in a panic. The one in the rear seems to have pressed a bit too much.
Kieku mhux ghax gew mijiet kbar (biex ma nghidx eluf) ta’ Maltin lejn Ghawdex il-bierah, nofs tan-nofs ta’ Pjazza Santu Wistin vojta kienet tibqa’.
Ktibt hekk mhux bi zball, izda peress li l-palk enormi li nbena minn tarf sa tarf tal-pjazza cekken l-ispazju taghha b’terz.
Kien hemm 14-il coach mikrija, minibuses, l-Arriva gabet zewg bendy buses fuq ir-rotta tal-Mgarr, u hafna “fqar” ohra telghu bil-vetturi taghhom.
U d-diskors ta’ “ma hargux ghax bezghu juru wicchom” imissu jisthi jghidu. X’haseb?
Ftakar li llum it-2013 u mhux l-1980s, Joseph. Ikber ftit, jahasra.
Mill-banda l-ohra nghidu grazzi hafna tal-business li ghamiltulna. Ghax peress li intom kollha mejtin bil-guh u m’ghandkomx fuqiex tahilfu, gejtu Ghawdex u gibtu sangwic u flixkun ilma tal-vit fil-hendbeg maghkom.
L-isbah wahda imma hi din: mid-diskors tal-leader li kien brillanti, vizjonarju u “twil” daqs kertfarruga, x’hareg ta’ sugu ghalina l-Ghawdxin?
Kif ser johloq ix-xoghol “f’Ghawdex ghall-Ghawdxin?”
Jekk hu ragel, jghidilna kif, meta u kemm. Issa mdorri b’dawn il-gimmicks, u allura jmissu jghidilna dwar din il-proposta wkoll.
Watched the repeat, he basically spent the last ten minutes working up the same crescendo in the dramatic edited TV sequence. The script was identical.
Watching ONE news, footage ignored Toni Abela except for a split second at the very end.
Joseph was giving him his back, too busy chatting to Louis Grech and pointing at rainbows.
I don’t get it, if it’s a movement, made of people, the opposite of an exclusive clique, why was he the only speaker?
The PN remained in Gozo for the rest of the day, urging people to dinner around its restaurants. What did he do?
Have you noticed that PL candidates are not sitting at the back? Is MuscatPL ashamed of his team and his Team Maqghud Billboard?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=407jFKGDEhI
Baqghu l-art nahseb. Jew ma jridx jesponihom halli hadd ma jinduna li huma l-istess ta’ 30 sena ilu.
Muscat said that Gozitans had not come to the mass meeting because they were ‘afraid’.
Dan bis-serjeta? Afraid of what?
The PN in government has never made any threats or taken vindictive measures against anyone with a different political belief.
So what is there to be afraid of?
Nationalist supporters are the ones who are afraid and have every reason to be, especially now that it looks like Labour will win the election. But Gozitans still turned out to hear Gonzi speak in Gozo yesterday.
No one can forget the “golden years”. There was no freedom of speech at all. People were made to suffer simply because they sided with PN.
Why do most people here do not use their real names when making their comments? They want to hide their identity as they are afraid that if the Labour party returns to government, vindictive measures would be taken against them. No one believes Muscat when he says “Malta Taghna Lkoll”.
I fully agree with your last paragraph. I use a pseudonym just because of that.
I’m still young, but when during the last election one of the PL candidates found out I support PN, he was shocked (as if I don’t have a right to an opinion) and didn’t do business with me for a month – until I told him what i really thought.
Where were the candidates? Is he ashamed to show them off behind him?