Here’s Deborah Schembri, leading the march against the Labour government’s decision to remove stipends
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February 21, 2013 at 12:56pm
There she is, one of the people holding the banner with then student leader Manuel Delia, protesting against Evarist Bartolo the Minister of Education.
Now she’s so hot on his abilities that she’s joined the party that wants to make him Education Minister again.
I guess some people never learn. The day you catch me (or anyone else, for that matter) voting for Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando again, call me out on this.
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Yes, it is her. I was there and I distinctly remember those days. (I saw myself there a couple of times).
With reference to Deborah Schembri switching allegiances, one thing I can say: lil min tafu issaqsix ghalih. I wasn’t surprised at all.
Quite frankly, when I saw the divorce debate being treated the way it was, I was half-expecting her to appear out of nowhere and when she announced her candidature with the PL, I was absolutely not surprised.
Ghax hi ga haditu l-istipendju u lesta…….
Let’s see whether she will be protesting when, after 10 March, The Hon. Evarist Bartolo MP, Minister for Education, will once again change the stipends to loans.
I was there protesting. I was one of them and proud of it!
I was there too, and am proud we made a difference that day.
Wiċċ ta’ Nazzjonalista; moħħ ta’ tiġieġa.
Glad to say, I was there.
How pathetic, just read that Deborah put (tad-divorzju) next to her name on the ballot paper to be recognized. Can’t they just vote for her because she’s Deborah Schembri?
Once bitten, twice shy.
Will this apply for us Maltese? Or must we be twice bitten to learn?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130221/local/deborah.458639
To think that we are on the verge of going back to those times is very worrying indeed. Watching this video and seeing the police trying to disperse the students I see the huge difference of then and now.
Now, the students at the university and MCAST were protesting and booing at the prime minister and no one stopped them.
Can you imagine under a Labour goverment, having students booing the prime minister?
Perhaps on another level, what Labour wants is to keep us students and young people ignorant so that they follow rather than think and decide (just like what we had in the 80s).
Those people booing the prime minister today are almost certainly the children of Mintoff’s Generazzjoni Socjalista, which has now become Malta Taghna Lkoll.
Veru li kulħadd għandu dritt jagħmel l-għażliet tiegħu imma veru wkoll li mbagħad trid terfa’ r-responsabilta’ u l-konsegwenzi tal-għażliet li tagħmel.
Dan hu l-kuntest li fih jien fhimt lil Simon Busuttil meta, biex jispjega l-qerq ta’ JM, iddeskriviha b’wiċċ ta’ nazzjonalista. U bħas-soltu l-labour qala’ l-frażi mill-kuntest tagħha u mmanipulaha għall-iskopijiet tiegħu.
Aktar il-fuq, Lomax ma kienx sorpriż bil-mossa ta’ Schembri. Il-mara mhix injoranta (kienet tidher fuq kazi ta’ annullament quddiem it-tribunal tal-kurja), imma naħseb li l-pożizzjoni ġdida tagħha tirrifletti wkoll il-karattru u għalhekk naqbel mal-analisi ta’ Daphne li certa nies ma jitgħallmux….
“Once bitten, twice shy” ma tgħoddx għalihom.
May I suggest that you stick this video to the front page for a while?
Over the past 15 years, DESPITE THE BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEPRESSION IN LIVING MEMORY, people have been living so well that they have been lulled into thinking that protests, demonstrations and problems are an alien concept to Malta.
This is particularly true for the first time voters who don’t even remember these events.
Yes, the demonstrations you see taking place in Spain, Greece and other countries every day on the news can very well take place in Malta too. You just need the volatile mix of Labour’s bad governance and their awful policies.