That’s what I call consistency
Watch this video and think about the ironies of life and the inconsistency of people. Four party leaders in February 2008: Harry Vassallo, leader of Alternattiva Demokratika; Josie Muscat, leader of National Action or whatever it was called; Lawrence Gonzi, Nationalist Party leader, and Alfred Sant, Labour leader.
Fast forward five years. Harry Vassallo is working for former Nationalist minister John Dalli; Josie Muscat is voting Labour and telling the press that he looks forward to Muscat’s lower electricity bills when showing him round his hospital; Alfred Sant is gearing up to stand for election to the European Parliament after leading the campaign against EU membership; and…Lawrence Gonzi is still standing, still with the same consistent beliefs and still with the same party.
That’s consistency. As for the rest, the least said the better all round.
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Josie Muscat, the ultra right person who was not happy with the non-violence policy of the PN in the early eighties, and who was so anti Labour back then, is now a Laburist. Ghax dan il-gvern qatlu bil-guh, miskin.
[Daphne – Well, actually I think it’s further confirmation of Labour’s right-wing ideology and attitude. They’re visibly attracting the far right now: Josie Muscat, Norman Lowell’s supporters…]
Daphne,
I beg to differ: To begin with there is nothing wrong with hard right policies. Margaret Thatcher managed to shape an economy on the brink of bankruptcy in the early eighties with them. In fact, labour would attract the entrepreneurial sector in hordes had it to start proclaiming this kind of politics but alas, the truth is that this is so far from reality. Labour is still socialist. It never bleats about the overburdened welfare state, social benefits. golden handshakes to dry docks employees or parastatal companies and getting people off their backsides to go to work.
The start reality is that welfare secures a power base for political parties in Government and nobody here in Malta is prepared to tackle it, unless of course, we are forced into the austerity zone!!
Maybe because I’ve forgotten about Sant somewhat over the past five years but Muscat fills me with much more fear.
He seems to me to be much more underhand, not to mention incapable of running this country.
Josie Muscat voting Labour, you said?
[Daphne – Oh didn’t you pick it up from the reports of Joseph Muscat’s escorted tour of Capua Hospital? “I look forward to the lower water and electricity tariffs under Labour + lots of moaning and groaning about current tariffs + plenty of looking forward to Labour’s plans for partnership with private hospitals. Doesn’t take much to work out the rest, does it. Or is it only women who pick up on these things?]
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Gonzi won’t be the reason the PN loses the coming election.
We know that the man is the best choice for this country, but I’m afraid that the people he most trusted have done him a lot of harm.
We have people working in ministries who do most of the harm, because most of them are freshmen with no common sense at all.
Ministers, instead of choosing the right people for the job, opt for ‘it-tifla jew tifel tat-tali habib’.
So when the PN goes into Opposition on March 10th, these ex-ministers will have pleanty of time to look back on their fuck-ups.
Charity begins at home.
How true , but Prime Minister Gonzi was warned many times that these clowns are ruining it all for us.
There are too many parasites occupying the best places.
Now when Labour comes up we can’t expect anything less.
I shudder to think what Labour will do when in government. People really don’t change.
Is this the same event your own son had some issues with the Super One cameraman? I’m not sure whether there were some fingers involved or f* words, or maybe it’s another debate. The mind boggles.
[Daphne – Yes, the very same. Meanwhile, he has moved on in a stellar fashion, while I note with satisfaction that Byon Jo Zammit is still heaving a Super One camera and Kurt Farrugia is still a Labour leader’s bridesmaid, with all his prospects for betterment hinged on political patronage and a Labour victory. He who laughs last & c & c…But of course, it’s the raw material that counts.]
Will there be a university debate for this year’s election?
[Daphne – Apparently yes – it was mentioned in the list of debates yesterday, given as a reason why Joseph Muscat wants the final Xarabank debate cut down to an hour.]
Consistency and loyalty are values I grade very highly. Can’t stand these ‘pinnuri’ – iduru ma’ kull rih u bla principji ta’ xejn.
Another example of Malta Taghna Lkoll
https://www.facebook.com/antigonzi
‘Minn dan il-progett ser inkunu qed inzidu 500 post tax-xoghol gdid – Joseph Muscat’
One of the comments posted on the page.
That is one of the many reasons why I feel confident giving my vote to PN.
Fast forward five years…. pity that some of those university students who:
a) voted for EU membership
b) gave their unyielding support to the PN
c) realized that the MLP in government would be a detriment to their future
d) are now reaping the benefits of the above decisions
don’t seem to realize that by not voting PN this time round, they will be compromising their life as they know it today.
Few of these are gullible enough to vote for PL. Some will not choose to vote, whilst the pseudo-intellectuals/I-think-I’m-so-cool among them will vote AD.
Amongst these, and this I find terribly frustrating, are those people who have decided to pursue their career abroad and have little intention of ever coming back to live on the rock.
Yet they feel that it is their God-given duty to criticise life under the current Gonzi administration. True, many things have been left wanting in the past five years and many sociopolitical issues tackled poorly. But the truth is, we live The Life on this little island of ours.
But if, God spare us, we are lumped with Joseph Muscat as prime minister and his ‘progressive movement-NOT’ in government, it won’t be these people who will the bear the brunt of their decision.
They will only cringe in embarrassment any time Malta’s name is mentioned in any European forum.
For us, on the other hand, our whole future is at stake.
Anke tal-Labour huma konsistenti. Bidu Gdid.
If we were in England, three would qualify as rats and one as a gentleman.
We are in Malta. We are in the EU, that is true, but we lie further South than Tunis. We share the same latitude as Sousse.
Whether we like it or not we belong to the Maghreb.
We are really Moors and hence our mores and mentality.
And what are you trying to say by saying that in a very derogatory form if I may say so?
I would say speak for yourself! . I have nothing against any people, I am a pure Maltese, I have always lived on correct principles.
[Daphne – ‘I am pure Maltese’. No such thing, and when said by the sort of person I think you are, nothing to boast about either. You use it in the same way the BNP does, and look at them. They make everyone else embarrassed to be British, because of their stupidity and less than Adonis-like appearance.]
I despise anyone who is ashamed of being Maltese or comparing us to some low behaviour communities. Maltese were a dignified nation up to a certain period of time , when there was law and order and respect. It was only when that rat mintoff came and thanks to the british they made him even more a rat by sending him to study in england thinking he would be lured to other pastures. mintoff brought the scum to the surface and tried to make us believe that we are low class, I dont blame he he was referring to himself probably and he was very correct.
The Maltese society was always small but there was a social order. The british are partly to blame for their arrogance and for their mishandling of their colonies, no need to bring any examples just read Ghandi. As a small nation we do have a role , and just looking at the Way the Prime Minister Gonzi handling the Libyan crisis made me feel proud to face any foreigner in the face. Thanks to carefull politics and prudence we are in a very sound place. I am Maltese I will never be ashamed to be Maltese,Malta is a little piece in the global jigsaw where every piece is valid and IMPORTANT.
Daphne! okay I rephrase ” pure Maltese” true you are right there is no such thing, but I feel a bit dismayed at your phrase I quothe ” and when said by the sort of person I think you are, nothing to boast about either!” . I really do not know what you meant by that phrase! I wished to convey that there are real Maltese people who are an example to society. Why should I feel inferior, when any Maltese with a good will, can do well in society! I dislike certain comments like the one of ” anthony” where he tried to picture us in a backward way, by even making a not so nice remark about arabs! Who does he or she think he is? We are supposed to be humans and believe in human rights. I love this site because it has a very important role in journalism which exposes a lot of rot lying around us and to make us aware of scum! But I felt uneasy at the comment by ” anthony” we belong to the maghreb, as if it is something very low class and not befitting to the EU! Do you really agree with the last phrase?
Oh but anthony is right. We have to work that much harder to prove our Europeanness, and it is a daily struggle, or we’ll slide back down the slippery slope.
Why do you think we go around selecting our few precious blonde girls to read out our results at Eurovision, or to be the face of Brand Malta?
Of course if we were a British dependency and had British passports we wouldn’t have these hang-ups but woops, I’ve opened a can of worms there.
Manum, I am sorry my comment upset you.
You are right to be upset. However, I tend to call a spade a spade.
Remember that in 1987 the PN majority was less than 5000.
4785 to be exact.
Did you live through 1971-1987 as a working adult or as a student first and a worker later?
I very much doubt it.
That election result spoke volumes of Malta and the Maltese.
Anyway, if the PL suffer a crushing defeat in the forthcoming elections I will take my comment back and ask you over for a glass of Dom Perignon.
If not, I stand by what I have said.
Tander Saliba and Ronnie Pellegrini at 3:20.
Both promoted to key positions in the party.
And Tonio Borg could have terminated Harry Vassallo’s contract because it’s temporary but he didn’t.
But Tonio is a gentleman. He shall be giving Harry enough time to prove himself, and if he is good at his job, then there is no reason to terminate it.
There is Narcy again!
Muscat carelessly made very expensive promises to many people.
If he is elected and keeps all his promises he will bankrupt Malta.
Goodbye stipends, goodbye MCAST, goodbye University, goodbye any COLAS for pensioners, goodbye to increase in children’s allowance and goodbye to jobs. In other words five years of hell and demonstrations will be capturing the news on a weekly basis.
Within a few months with Muscat at Castille, some people will regret not voting for Gonzi, but now these people have to suffer for five very long years.
No. It wll not be the only people who will not vote PN who will ‘have to suffer for five very long years’.
It will be all of us – particularly the mid-teen generation who are looking forward to and preparing themselves for higher education or proper trade-training for the career/job opportunities which beckon under PN leadership.
And, any way, who said it will be for ‘five very long years’ only. When the electorate failed back in 1971, it took sixteen years of ‘hard Labour’ before freedom was achieved.
Quite a lot of goodbyes, you could add Goodbye to stupid persons like yourself who think that the world starts and ends with P.N
People like you are so biased that they are being convinced that Gonzi and his merry men, are the only ones that can do any good to Malta.
This way of thinking was in vogue during the Mintoff days, and it’s the P.N. who are stuck to the past when it’s time to look at the future.
persons like me(true Nats) who are having a hard time to decide who to vote to,or whether to vote at all, are seeing that with people like you in the P.N. it’s better not to give the P.N.our support.
Josie Muscat looking forward to lower electricity bills – of course lower bills = more profit and to hell with the rest. If that is not egoism at its very best I don’t know what is.
Well said. So so true.
I am not surprised at these opportunistic xxsholes who think that they could have fooled anyone.
What disgusts me most is Alfred Sant, who instead of crawling beneath a stone, is aiming to become a member of the European Parliament.
I am itching to hear him speak, and see what slogan he is going to present.