Party leaders debate at the university
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February 13, 2013 at 12:23pm
Shame that the live link isn’t working. It seems it can’t cope with the demand. And as far as I can make out, not one of the TV stations is covering it live.
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Apparently this even has been hijacked by the PL too!
Not surprised in the slightest, after the battering they took there five years ago. The most humiliating thing I’ve ever seen, when it comes to local politics.
They had bus-loads of people there who were definitely not students (nor ever were).
I just hope that will be an eye-opener to any student who might be considering voting josephmusct.com “for a change”.
Min jaf kieku dak ic-capcip kollu sar ghal Gonzi x’kontu tghidu !
Bl-Ingliz jghidu: “THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL ” Anki fuq il-hajt tal-universita !
Ara Eddy, xi hlew! Are you finally bored of kissing ass on francodebono.com, now that poor FD has dropped off the face of the Earth ‘Dward?
Mind you he still gets given some space by MaltaToday – that paragon of balance and intellect. Maybe you should try their site instead – their crowd will be much more receptive, I think you’ll find.
To be honest over here, you’re just a source of humour.
Welcome back Eddy!
I missed you and your nonsensical comments.
U hallina Eddy.. I have some questions for you.
Can you tell us how many government schools were built by the Labour Party when in government?
Can you tell us who had closed the polythecnic?
Can you tell us who changed stipends to a loan even after promising they would not remove stipends?
Can you tell us which government created big problems for private schools and had threatened to close them? Jew b’xejn, jew xejn. Remember?
Can you tell which government introduced the 20 point system to enter university?
Shall I continue?
So why don’t you just get lost Eddy?
As usual Privitera ssibu kullimkien.
Shame, yes. The online blog just doesn’t cut it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Muscat ordered his people to sabotage the live feed to the TV stations.
Yes, does seem Joseph was rather unwilling to be mistaken, again, for Alfred Sant.
Not today.
Yobs on campus again.
Organised crowds, two way radios and ‘students’ tearing the EU flag.
Nice.
That’s Labour for you.
Is this why we need a second university? Let me just guess which one would carry the better credentials for a job?
Anyone who really wanted to establish a second university for the right reasons wouldn’t have waited for an election to be the excuse for one.
He didn’t mention it in his electoral programme, did he? He’s going for ‘extensions’ from foreign universities.
Let’s hope someone present actually took photos of the torn flag or whoever did it.
Labour is against the EU but wants its money for themselves. Otherwise how can Joe Muscat go to the Gym everyday for his work out?
Work outs without proper gym shoes, remember.
Labour has hired a ‘rent-a-crowd’. There are many burly men in their 40s who have never picked up a pencil other than to put it behind their ears.
It seems that even under the tent in their own meetings places are reserved as I saw an advert on FB by gozitan candidate Joe Cordina asking people who want to reserve a seat for this weekend’s tent meeting in Xaghra to contact him.
Yobs of all stripes have colonised the accompanying chatstream at http://www.livestream.com/insitemalta
Register (for free) to watch.
Well – I just hope there’s no trouble.
Insite, which is the students’ media ‘organization’, has shooed students out of the hall and left the Labour rent-a-crowd yobs inside.
Insite is very partial to PL especially during last year’s KSU election. It pushed for Pulse’s interests. (Pulse is the PL student organisation).
This rent-a-crowd remark is all the more ridiculous given that (now infamous) 2008 video clip.
[Daphne – If you are referring to a video clip produced by Super One TV, showing my youngest son, you should know that he was a university student then. If you are accusing me of being ‘rent a crowd’, then you have lost your mind. I could have as easily sat with the press, but preferred to sit with the audience. Either way, the description of a political columnist at a political event as ‘rent a crowd’ is patently absurd. Unlike you, I was there (obviously) and could see for myself that the place was packed with real, live students. The only one other than myself who was not a student, anywhere in my vicinity, was the mother of the organiser, Christian Peregin, who was sitting right by me.]
Your comment is ridiculous, Qeghdin Sew, but I am sure you know judging by your moniker.
All this is reminding me of the 1977 graduation.
And they are not even yet in power.
If Joseph’s movement wins the election, we will really be back to the golden years.
The whole thing was a farce.
Labour brought in people who are not university students, bussing them in at 9am or earlier to queue at the door.
They were phoning up students beforehand asking who they were going to vote for and If they answered Labour, they urged them to attend to give Muscat support.
They handed out the Maltese flag while we were in the queue supposedly because ‘Malta taghna lkoll’.
Even the questions the moderators asked were biased, asking Lawrence Gonzi to ‘justify’ certain issues, while Joseph Muscat was asked to ‘clarfiy’ the Labour Party stand.
The moderator was so obviously Labour, with his snide, “Dr. Gonzi, that’s not what I asked you” and “You should keep it short because you’re running out of time”.
The questions that were vetted were exchanged by obvious Labour puppets, making long statements openly attacking Lawrence Gonzi, and then asking some stupid questions.
When Dr. Gonzi asked about one particular question that was asked, the Moderator admitted that the person changed her question.
Besides that, one heckler kept on interrupting Lawrence Gonzi without anyone stopping him despite the so-called Insite ushers that were there to stop such ignorance.
Il-bicca kienet mahduma mill-bidu sa l-ahhar.
The girl who asked one of the questions, a certain Pollacco, spent the greater part of this campaign sitting behind Joseph Muscat during Labour mass meetings.
She’s also rather keen on sitting opposite the camera in domes and green tents.
I didn’t expect them to be this dumb, she’s easily recognisable wearing that reddish bob.
Insite should have organised matters differently.
Members should have been at the door checking ID cards of students to ensure that they were indeed students.
It was obvious to all that most of them were PL activists. If this is shade of things to come, heaven help us all.
Hijacked by Labour kids and old men, while university students who use their intellect to judge one’s vote were left outside.
Shameful for Insite for not even following their own rules.
Eyewitness.
Shades of ’77.
:(
At the University debate, Dr Muscat said that after the general election the country has to unite.
Indeed, I can see PN and PL supporters hugging each other while they slowly sink in a sea of unemployment.
All this talk of unity, sounds hollow when the real danger facing Maltese society is that of unemployment, with so many EU countries in dire straits.
Notwithstanding Muscat’s empty talk, we are a united people even if we may disagree strongly on politics, on festas and on many other things.
Typical Labour rent-a-mob with people that have nothing to do with University bussed in to boo Gonzi and sing ‘agħmillu karta għal tax-xjuħ’.
Showing their true colours even before March 9, let alone afterwards if they win…
Where were the university security people? I would have thought that only students showing the University students card would be allowed to enter the hall. Besides, did security go round the parking areas to clamp cars without a parking permit.
People were only asked to show their I.D card to see if they were over eighteen.
I don’t think the Labour supporters needed their I.D card since they were obviously a lot older than that, especially the pudgy housewives with their white hair.
What a farce.
Labour never changes. Muscat wants to show he’ll be adopting Mintoff’s tactics. Hopefully this will have the opposite effect, the movement desires and those who want a change will vote in the PN with its new faces and ideas- copied by the movement without shame.
A PN who was and still is the envy of many countries much bigger than Malta. A party who has been the vector of change from the “qammilagni” ta’ Mintoff to a Malta that is proud to be what it has become. Viva Gonzi!
University students, my arse.
I’ve picked out at least four of the rent-a-crowd idiots who are not students, and two of them are illiterate.
We should name them and shame them, but then this has made the PN even stronger.
The Labour campaign is all about creating this fake image – them being popular at university is just the most recent aspect of their elaborate ploy.
It’s a shame Muscat is going to have to be prime minister; he would have made an excellent Minister of Propaganda.
The whole thing was a farce.
PL, please stop insulting our intelligence.
Bringing coaches of non-university students to wait from 9am to fill up the hall, while uni students couldn’t even get in was pathetic.
Smile at the cameras…
The more I read about Joseph Muscat the more I realize what a phony he is.
Can he pull it off by March 9? Is the packaging alone sufficient enough to make him our Prime Minister.
Are my fellow Maltese going to taken in by his manipulations?
Joseph has promised students that a Labour Government will continue to pay them the stipend if they do not find a job.
Joseph is already preparing the students for the worst. He is telling them that they will not find jobs if Labour is in government, but they are not to worry because they will get their UNEMPLYEMENT stipend.
PUT THIS ON THE BILL BOARDS IN FRONT OF UNIVERSITY.
Mhux talli Malta mhux ser tkun taghna Ikoll, talli l-universita tiga mhux ta l-istudenti ghax l-istudenti thallew barra mis-sala tad dibattitu biex jidhlu il ‘croud managers’ tal-PL u nies ohra li gabu u li mhumiex studenti xejn, immma huma graduati fix-xjenza tal-QERQ.
Old Labour.
This event was a true eye-opener for all those who believe that Labour has changed. And singing “ghamillu karta” I think was addressed to the old chap of the Veterani Laburisti”- over 75 I think.