Eight years of telling us about MLPN and how they’re both the same, and he shuts up shop when Labour are elected
Blogger Jacques Rene Zammit, who lives in Luxembourg where he works for the European Court of Justice, has spent the last eight years rooting for Alternattiva Demokratika and blogging about how the two main parties are the same, how there’s no difference between them, how they’re MLPN, and how it doesn’t make a blind bit of difference to him who is in government.
And when I wrote, repeatedly at this election and the last one, that you should always vote to choose the government because anything other than that is childish, idiotic and irresponsible, he was at pains to drop excrement on me from a great height.
But on 11 March, just 24 hours after the election result was announced and the scale of the Labour victory became apparent, he quickly uploaded a blog-post announcing that he would no longer be writing about politics.
He blamed his employers, saying that they were worried his views would somehow be associated with them. Oh, indeed – and why would the Court of Justice in Luxembourg worry about that at all?
There are just two possible explanations. Either Jacques Rene Zammit has been working to elect Labour all along by default through the AD vote, and now feels that he has achieved his name and no longer needs to carry on.
Or all that talk about it making no difference to him whether Labour or the PN are in government was just so much bravado, the reality being that he’s scared to talk politics in public with a Labour government possibly ready to do him damage.
So much for MLPN, eh, Jacques? You said and wrote what you pleased, however offensive, for eight years under a Nationalist government, but 24 hours after Labour is elected you are already crapping your pants.
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He’s what I call yellow.
Well done, Daphne, keep us informed because we tend to really easily forget.
And please do us and future generations a favour by reminding us of the Brutuses in our midst.
Surely the PN had strategists with a ‘fifth column’ among them and as a PN supporter all my life I am embittered but not surprised.
Let the musketeers make hay while the sun shines, but kemm hi sabiha l-irgulija.
X’jiswa li tersaq lejn in-nies u go qalbom jghodduk bhala li int mhux ragel.
I wonder when we are going to have to remind people ‘li Malta taghna WKOLL ‘.
Qed tibza ghal hobzok, Jacques? Mhux hekk, x’ghala biebek mil-Maltin bhali li m’ghandniex ghazla ghax hawn irridu nibqghu.
L-aqwa li kellek taghmel ghamiltu.
Maybe he has a magazine to edit as well!
He’s shit scared. It was OK to pontificate from afar. A Labour government doesn’t affect him. But now he has realised that should he ever want to come back he better behave and keep his thoughts to himself. The new regime won’t like it otherwise.
Could be that his boss is appointed by the government and the patient government we’ve had is no more.
It often happens that an employer may not want his institution or company to be seen to be associated with or support a particular or any political party.
If according to you no one should vote for a third or maybe a fourth political party, should we have only two political parties? Isn’t choice and pluralism the essence of democracy?
David, did you read Daphne’s blog entry? Why should the European Court of Justice be concerned that an obscure lawyer on its payroll openly supports a political party in Malta?
Eeee, j’accuse mhux nejk. Single-handed, one-man band, two toes broken, writes in sand.
Probably the EU Court of Justice realized (a bit late) that he spent the entire day blogging during official working hours. Why did it take the EU institution 8 years to realize that?