Comments on: Joseph Muscat must have felt his chest swell with pride when these floats went past on 1 May 1996

By: sasha

sasha — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:31:58 +0000

It is very clear that she operates on what is good for Me Myself and I, always.

By: Lomax

Lomax — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:32:44 +0000

The basic difference being, of course, that whilst at the time (1996) they used to say “Gvern Gdid Laburista” now they do not even dare speak the name lest they scare away the switchers.

If we really pay attention to what they are not saying, we’d be in for quite a lesson. Now they say “Gvern Gdid”. Listen attentively, all of you. Joseph Muscat is not using the word “Laburista”. It is only “gvern Gdid”.

The reason is plain obvious – he just wants to portray himself as being partyless (he himself said it that parties are obsolete) and as being neutral because “Malta Taghna Lkoll” and I’m amazed, I really am, that people are not seeing through them.

They are ashamed of their identity and their past because they know, deep down they know, that they have a past to be ashamed of. Hence, they take the easy way out: they just obliterate the name which so inconveniently links them to the past. Hence, Gvern Laburista Gdid becomes a Gvern Gdid (immexxi mill-hajbu, presumably).

They are but a bunch of frauds but, then again, we, the people, are letting them fool us – most of us anyway.

By: Dudina

Dudina — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:14:34 +0000

In Gozo as soon as Labour won the 1996 election, a lot of shop owners smashed their “VAT” cash-register (which was, if I remember correctly, given by the state for free) out on the street and some of them even went around carcading in Gozo with the cash register dangling behind the car, only to find out a few days later that they needed to obtain a new one – this time, however, they needed to pay for it themselves, much to the delight of the local distributor.

Keep it up – you’re a woman with b*lls :)

By: manum

manum — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:51:42 +0000

Where was joseph muscat when carnival was moved to the month of may, and to make up for the lack of enthusiasm they made students build carnival floats in school! He was conveniently in a Church School.

[Daphne – That wasn’t carnival. It was the May Day parade.]

By: old-timer

old-timer — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:51:16 +0000

On recent TV programmes one can “feel” what a miserable lot of liars they are.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:50:21 +0000

Thank you for these pictures. They speak a thousand words – without using a teleprompter.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:48:23 +0000

Hallina Daphne please…You are making a huge huge mistake and playing with fire a lot recently. Minitex tinduna li qeda tattaka nies li huma bla bandira. Taf xi tfisser…qeda tattaka nies li kienu nazzjonalisti qedin jajdu li huma laburisti u ftit zmien ohra jkunu nazzjonalisti ghax ma jikwistaw xejn. Taf ghaliex? Ghax huma kriminali u int minitiex tinduna li dawn huma l-istess nies li sa ftit zmien kienu PN u ikunu hemm biex jinhelsu minn xi kass..Oqod attenta ghax dawn mhux PL u laqqas PN imma Kordin biss jafu u mhux ha jiddejqu jigu u jweggawk qalbi..u mhux ha jkollok minn jitkellem ghaliek isma minni…I can feel it comming seriously..you are picking on the wrong crowd without doing any seriouse research about there back ground

[Daphne – Tony Zahra, Kevin Drake and Kenneth Zammit Tabona are planning to do me in with violence? I really SHOULD give them a call. Ajma, jahasra. I have been at the receiving end of violence a few times, Patrick, and it’s only ever been from Laburisti, Norman Lowell’s racists and a cocaine trafficker.]

By: Joanna V

Joanna V — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:40:34 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=49ttd18e4Tw#at=11

Is that Deborah Schembri protesting in this video?

[Daphne – Yes.]